Chapter 449: The Climax of the Immortal Martial Civilization
Just when the Huaxia army and the Qing court expressed their shock at the same time, Nanjing's internal strife escalated again, first the North King wanted to kill the Wing King, then the Wing King killed the North King in turn, and finally the Wing King was squeezed out by the remnants of Nanjing, so he could only start the so-called Western Expedition and retreat to Guangxi with 200,000 main forces.
The once vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement has fallen to a low point, leaving a shadow in the hearts of many rebels, if there is similar infighting within the Huaxia League, such as the internal fighting between the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuan Temple, then the current good situation is very likely to be lost.
After the incident, Li Xian and Xuan Zheng jointly spoke out, asking the Taiping Army not to take too drastic measures against its own internal personnel, calling on allies to unite closely, and frequently appeared together in public, emphasizing the traditional friendship between the two forces, and finally dispelled some worries.
After the internal strife in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, its strength was greatly damaged, so that the Hunan army, which was originally at a disadvantage, saw the opportunity to desperately counterattack and regained many places in Anhui and Jiangxi.
The Qing court was ecstatic about this situation and felt that the situation of the great Qing Dynasty was about to come.
However, after that, the Huaxia army sent troops in the name of supporting its allies, especially the mixed Yuanzong and Sanyuanguan, from Tongling and Wuhu to Jiujiang, and the troops pointed directly at the Hunan army's nest, not only recovering all the lost territory, but also recovering a large amount of territory from the Hunan army.
Afterwards, the Huaxia Army took the seized land as its own, and had no intention of returning it to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which made the Taiping Army high-ranking very unhappy.
It's just that at this time, the strength of the Taiping Army has seriously shrunk, and more importantly, the fighting spirit of the low-level soldiers and officers has almost reached the bottom.
Later, in 1853, the Huaxia League finally swore to the Northern Expedition, sent troops from Yangzhou, and fought all the way to the north.
In fact, if it weren't for the Taiping Army's bad things, Li Xian would have wanted to send troops north in 1852, and if it weren't for the Anglo-French army, it is estimated that he would have been attacked in 1851.
At this time, the strength of the Huaxia army had become extremely strong, Li Xian's mixed yuan sect alone had 200,000 regular troops, Sanyuanguan also had 100,000 troops, and other allies other than the Taiping army combined to have more than 100,000 troops, which was more than enough to crusade against the Qing court.
Li Xian personally served as the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, leading 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Mixed Yuan Sect and 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Alliance Army, a total of 200,000 troops, starting from Yangzhou and going north along the canal, advancing step by step with an unstoppable momentum.
At this time, the Qing court only had the Mongolian soldiers and the Hunan army under Seng Lingqin to fight, but when they encountered 200,000 firearms troops, they had some mantis arms as a car, and the Yiren Palace fully supported the cavalry team that had caused many troubles to Li Xian's department in Fujian, as well as a large number of warrior troops, and they could not defeat or block the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Li Xian.
In the end, the Northern Expeditionary Army advanced all the way to the outside of Beijing, and the navy landed in Tianjin from the Bohai Sea, besieging the entire city.
After a three-month siege, the Qing court finally surrendered, and the Qing dynasty, which had ruled China for two hundred years, came to an end.
After the Qing court announced its abdication, the Huaxia League naturally took over the defense of the capital, took over the vast areas of the north, and announced the establishment of the Huaxia State to the world.
The European countries were unwilling to establish the Huaxia State, and felt that it was not in line with the interests of the European countries in Asia, but at this time, the Huaxia Alliance was already very strong, and in terms of army strength alone, it was Li Xian's mixed Yuan lineage that had the strength to single out all the British army.
Under these circumstances, the European countries could only give in, send envoys to congratulate the establishment of the Huaxia State, discuss a series of cooperation matters, and so on.
However, after the founding of the Huaxia State, there were still many internal and external contradictions.
Not to mention anything else, the Huaxia League, the main body of the Huaxia Kingdom, was established by a large number of martial arts sects in the north and south, and its strength is divided into large and small, strong and weak, but in fact, it is not subordinate to each other, that is, the Mixed Yuan Sect is the strongest, and it does not have the power to directly command other sects.
In addition, the Qing court still has a strong influence in the land of China, and although the Alien Hall established by the Thirteen Inhumans has suffered a lot of losses, it is still quite powerful, but when it saw that it was impossible to do anything in the main world, it retreated to its own cave blessed land, and also used special methods to block the space, making it difficult for outsiders to find or enter the blessed land.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the major sects of the Central Plains used this trick, and it was not easy to turn over after two hundred years of hard work, and this time it was the turn of the Inhuman Hall to adopt this method.
In addition, the Huaxia Alliance led by the Mixed Yuan Sect, which is now in charge of the world, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has always been outside the Huaxia Alliance system and has become a force of its own.
Although after several tragic infighting, the strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was greatly reduced, but it still occupied a vast area, whether it was its military strength or the number of people under its control, it was second only to the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuan Temple, and was actually the third largest force in the world.
If the Huaxia League were to demand that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom obey the Huaxia League's deployment too strongly, it would likely lead to a civil war, which would probably be no worse than the war of the Qing court in the Northern Expedition.
Under such a grim situation, the Huaxia League had no choice but to launch a policy of inter-provincial autonomy led by various major factions.
This model of inter-provincial autonomy is to divide the scope of rule according to the areas actually controlled by the Qing court, exercise autonomy, and establish appropriate laws and regulations and administrative institutions.
This way of governing is largely based on the current American system, in which each province enjoys considerable freedom and can maintain a certain number of troops of its own, but it is only necessary to follow the orders of the central government to send troops to defend its sovereignty in the event of a major event such as a foreign invasion.
Of course, this system was naturally criticized by many people of insight, and it was still criticized in later generations as a warlord separatist in the guise of democracy and inter-provincial autonomy.
Whether it is Li Xian or Xuanzheng, they don't like this model of inter-provincial autonomy, but now the only ones who have the ability to establish a unified regime are the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuan Temple--- Taiping Heavenly Kingdom may have a certain military strength, but because of the previous several internal strife, the reputation has been ugly--- if these two sects show a trace of intention to unify the world, China will enter a period of chaos among the princes.
According to the military strength and administrative capabilities of the current large and small sects, the intensity of this civil war will be far more tragic than any previous war of unification, and the time span may even exceed several decades.
Conducting such a civil war with the great powers on the outside world would lose the opportunity for the revival of China and would be suppressed by the European powers for decades.
In this context, the various sects of the Huaxia League finally agreed to adopt the sectarian autonomy model, and then after a series of bargaining and bargaining, or negotiations, they finally demarcated their respective spheres of influence and agreed on the rights and interests they enjoyed.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was dismissive of this practice at first, but it was not until the Huaxia League divided the territory of the whole country into seven, seven, eight, and eight that it woke up like a dream and understood that if he insisted on going his own way again, then after the disputes within the Huaxia League were eliminated, the next step would be to unify their opinions and jointly send troops to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and then divide the current territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
The people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have always regarded themselves very highly, and they regard themselves as a force on an equal footing with the Huaxia Alliance as a whole, but after the previous internal strife, their strength has been greatly reduced, and many high-level leaders understand that in terms of military strength, the Mixed Yuan Sect alone can defeat itself three or four times.
However, under the guidance of Li Xian, the Huaxia League has always been cautious in its use of troops, occupying only areas of great military significance and economic value, while the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom likes to expand everywhere, so that the Demon Sect currently spans seven or eight provinces, which is larger than any of the Huaxia League's sects in terms of territory alone.
There was a serious confrontation between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Huaxia League, and Li Xian even ordered his troops to wait on the outskirts of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's ruling area, and also sent naval ships to patrol the vicinity of Nanjing.
After about half a year of confrontation and dozens of skirmishes, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom finally understood that nothing could be done, gave in, negotiated with the Huaxia League, and finally obtained most of Guangxi, Anhui and Jiangxi, but the occupied areas of other provinces were abandoned, and even Nanjing, which was originally the capital, was given up and given to the Huaxia League.
With the withdrawal of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from Nanjing, the situation in the whole of China finally became clear, at least most of them understood that the civil war would not start, and the new Huaxia Kingdom was finally formed.
After the establishment of the Huaxia Kingdom, Li Xian's Mixed Yuan Sect naturally gained the greatest benefits, occupying more than 50% of the land south of the Great Wall, Sanyuanguan obtained 20% of the land, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom received 10%, and the remaining 20% was divided by the Huashan faction and other sects such as the Tiandihui.
As for the vast area north of the Great Wall, at this time, the Qing court is still in the heart, and even wants to be independent, with the heart of the Huaxia League, naturally it will not be allowed.
Soon after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom officially joined the framework of the Huaxia Kingdom, the Huaxia League announced that it would send troops to the north, and use troops to the northeast to Mongolia and other places that were ready to move, and with absolute firepower superiority, it would soon subdue the major forces that were still in the era of cold weapons, and completely inherit the territorial scope of the Qing Dynasty.
At this time, the Huaxia Kingdom had more than 600,000 pure firearms army, known as the most powerful army country on the earth.
It's just that the navy is weaker, with only 30,000 in number, and the warships are mostly light sailing ships and steamships, lacking the vital large battleships.
However, under Li Xian's care, the naval shipyard is developing ironclad ships and pure steel warships, and if some key technical bottlenecks can be broken, it is possible to raise the strength of the Huaxia Navy by several steps.
Of course, this is the current situation, and the Huaxia Navy is still known as the first navy in Asia, which is still in line with the facts, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Militarily, Huaxia is enough to be called a strong country, but the navy is a little weaker, and it is no problem to use it for self-protection, but it is not so optimistic in other aspects.
In terms of people's livelihood, except for Guangzhou and the prefectures and counties near Shanghai that the Huaxia League has operated for a long time, other areas are still in the primitive agricultural civilization, or the agricultural civilization of the feudal era, and there is an extreme lack of modern industry.
In addition, the gap between China and Western countries in terms of education, politics, and culture is not ordinarily large.
Fortunately, Huaxia Country also has its own advantages, that is, it has a large number of caves and blessed lands to develop, and it has developed martial arts and has a relatively complete cultivation system.
Under the impetus of Li Xian and some well-intentioned people, the Huaxia Kingdom began to embark on the Xianwu civilization system of obtaining cultivation resources through the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, and cultivating and advancing science in the main world, which was very different from the scientific civilization of the British and other Western powers.
Five years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huaxia announced that it would go all out to promote martial arts cultivation, requiring regions with conditions and strength to implement nine-year compulsory martial arts education and open up a large number of basic martial arts secrets.
These martial arts secrets include the basic foundation-building exercises of many sects, such as the internal and external introductory exercises extracted from the super-level exercises such as "Jiuyang Divine Gong", "Jiuyin True Scripture", and "Mixed Yuan One Qigong", among which the "Mixed Yuan Twelve Piles" practiced by Li Xian is naturally the most popular exercise.
On the basis of these exercises, Li Xian also summoned hundreds of great masters and dozens of innate masters, fused the exercises of hundreds of martial arts schools and the content of the amber golden cicada, and compiled new exercises suitable for popularization to the public, named "basic internal force", "basic external strength", "basic sword technique", "basic sword technique", etc., and gradually became an enlightening martial art that can be popularized to all the people.
After that, Huaxia Kingdom in countless primary and secondary schools across the country, after the students entered the school, in addition to learning general scientific knowledge, they also had to practice martial arts, embark on the road of cultivation, but also conduct various competitions, tests, among which the best can become masters and join the country's senior academy used to train elite martial artists.
Students who enter the advanced students can regularly obtain foundation-building pills such as "Jingyuan Dan" and "Qi Replenishing Pill", and can also obtain training from coaches above the advanced level, and if they are lucky, they can even learn martial arts from masters above the grandmaster and become professional martial artists.
Of course, in this way, the martial artists in the world are gradually divided into academic martial artists and sectarian martial artists, and some rights and wrongs gradually arise, which is a later story.
After cultivating and refining the internal qi, the students can become warriors, and then under the organization of the academy, they can enter the cave heaven blessed land to hunt fierce beasts, collect spiritual grass, and if they are lucky, they can even obtain the Dao seed, and then they can open up the cave and become an advanced martial artist.
Huaxia Guo believes that every high-level martial artist is a valuable asset, and it is necessary to register and make a register, and also gives many preferential policies.
Martial artists of the refining Dao can borrow innate power, not only to skyrocket their strength, but more importantly, they can be used to assist scientific research and industrial production, greatly promoting the development of civilization.
Not to mention, ten years after the implementation of martial arts education, Huaxia cultivated more than 100,000 advanced martial artists with Taoist types, of which 10,000 martial artists entered the steelmaking industry, making Huaxia Kingdom make a large number of key breakthroughs in steelmaking, in 1870 the steel output exceeded 30 million tons, of which the output of various special alloy steels accounted for more than 20 percent. To become the world's largest steel-making country, surpassing the UK's long-term leadership in this area.
With the promotion of the steelmaking industry, the shipbuilding industry has also developed rapidly, so that Huaxia has produced a large number of steel warships, quickly crossing the technical difficulties of wooden sailing ships to ironclad ships, and then from ironclad ships to pure steel warships.
Moreover, the development of the steel industry has promoted the research of permanent magnets and other aspects, making it possible to produce practical high-power generators, so that Huaxia Kingdom will soon touch the edge of the power age.
In 1880, there were more than 100,000 primary and junior high schools in the country, and the number of martial arts academies suitable for advanced martial artists to further their studies also exceeded 200, making the number and strength of academy martial artists far exceed that of traditional sect martial artists.
During this period, the population of Huaxia Kingdom was 400 million, of which the number of junior martial artists who had studied martial arts for more than five years reached 42 million, the number of ordinary martial artists who cultivated internal strength reached 3.9 million, the number of advanced martial artists who opened up acupuncture points and the number of martial artists who refined the Dao of refining reached 410,000, the number of grandmaster-level martial artists above the third order reached more than 36,000, the number of fourth-order grand masters reached 4,500, and the number of masters above the fifth order congenital reached 527.
In addition to the very harsh conditions for the advancement of innate masters, there are high requirements for cultivation time and understanding of the Dao, so that the number of innate masters is only four or five times more than before the opening, and the number of martial artists at all levels is ten times or even dozens of times more than before the founding of the country.
The existence of such a huge number of warriors shows that China has embarked on the path of Xianwu civilization with Chinese characteristics, which is different from that of Western countries, and it also makes China's development different from any previous dynasty, and even different from any country and civilization of the same era.
Overall, the combined national power of the Chinese state, both military and economic power, began to surpass Britain in 1880 as the world's largest power, and then soon left it far behind;
In 1885, China surpassed steam engine ships for the first time in the number and tonnage of internal combustion engine ships using fuel oil, announcing the era of internal combustion engines.
In 1890, scholars from the famous Tianwu Academy made breakthroughs in the development of a series of electrical appliances such as electric lights, tape recorders, motors, batteries, etc., and the bottleneck of the construction of large-scale power generation equipment was broken through long ago, making China enter the electric age ahead of schedule;
In 1900, after years of painstaking research, coupled with a large number of breakthroughs in the study of the earth system and the wind system, the Huaxia Xianwu Research Institute finally developed a flying sword that could be used by congenital masters to stand on it and use its own skills to urge flight, announcing that the world had entered the era of flying swords;
Twenty years later, that is, in 1920, ordinary warriors could use spirit stones to urge flying swords, so that only one person, but the combat flying swords that could destroy the enemy with sword light, and the transportation flying swords that could accommodate a large number of materials and personnel were gradually popularized;
It wasn't until 1930 that a warrior was finally able to urge a flying sword to break through the atmosphere, reach the outside of the earth, and even circle the moon and come back, becoming the first sky-level monk.
After that, Huaxia's research on martial arts, flying swords, Taoism and magic weapons entered a situation of a hundred flowers, all kinds of magical spells and exercises emerged in an endless stream, the life expectancy, physical fitness and martial arts of the people have been greatly improved, and in cutting-edge martial arts, they even began to study cross-dimensional flying swords that can break the barriers of time and space between parallel worlds.
If this research can be broken through, humans can easily colonize other planes, and the Shattered Void will no longer be the preserve of Heavenly Rank masters.
The Xianwu civilization of the Huaxia Kingdom gradually entered a climax.