Extra Extra 1. "The Great Chaos at the End of the Ming Dynasty" Dungeon Chapter of the Great Demon Kingdom [The Marriage of the Great Sage] (Part 1)
Early summer of 1653 AD, Huaibei, Haizhou (Lianyungang)
Ever since the Ming Dynasty collapsed and the world was in chaos, Haizhou has become the territory of the so-called "Great Holy Kingdom". It has been eighteen years now.
——Of course, in places other than Haizhou, it is generally renamed and derogatorily called the "Great Demon Country".
Because, even among the many demons and bizarre separatist regimes in the Central Plains today, the "Great Holy Kingdom" of Haizhou can definitely be regarded as the most magical, or the most magical one: this "country" is actually based on "Journey to the West" "Remember" to carry out political power structure!
When the Ming Dynasty collapsed, the official army of the Ming Dynasty, the Wenxiang Rebellion Army and the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty fought against each other on the Huaihe River. In the end, the Qing army won. Even the leader of the Wenxiang Religion, Wang Ke, was defeated and captured for a time before he escaped. He fled back to Hebei and established the "Mahayana Kingdom" in the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, another group of remnants of the Wenxiang Sect stayed in Lianghuai, supported "Holy Aunt" Xu Xiner as the leader, and retreated to Haizhou to continue resisting. Because they promptly sold themselves to the "Australian" travelers who were entrenched on the Huaguo Mountain outside Haizhou Port, and the place they were located in was quite remote and desolate, they finally managed to survive, and gradually formed a group that nominally respected Xu Xin'er as the queen. In fact, it is a mini-subordinate country that is fully dependent on the traveler.
When the travelers began to establish a system for this dependent country, they found that no matter from any angle, this country was too small, with a population of only tens of thousands, which was only equivalent to a 100,000 stone vassal state in Japan's Warring States Period. Moreover, the regime was in disarray. The nominal queen, Xu Xiner, was just a lolita who was left as a hostage to the travelers on Huaguo Mountain. She had no real power at all. The following six leaders each have a bunch of minions, and they are roughly similar in power. Not only are the six dissatisfied with each other, they even lack control over their own subordinates and cannot control them at all.
As a result, the "Great Holy Kingdom" of Haishu, which was inherently deficient, had no choice but to admit the reality and adopt a feudal system similar to the feudal system of Japan's Warring States Period daimyo.
It just so happens that the founding place of the "Great Holy Kingdom" happens to be next to the Huaguo Mountain where the legendary stone monkey was born. So under someone's bad taste, when the relevant departments were planning this small semi-colonial country, they unexpectedly used the Monkey King's routine to enfeoff the six leaders of the Wenxiang Cult in Haizhou. The names of the Great Sage Pingtian (Bull Demon King), the Great Sage Fuhai, the Great Sage Huntian, the Great Sage Yishan, the Great Sage Ventilation, and the Great Sage Expelling Gods are all on an equal footing with each other, regardless of their status. And Queen Xu Xiner, who is resident in Huaguo Mountain, naturally inherited Sun Wukong's title of "Monkey King"... Then under these great sages, they also sealed a lot of people according to the system of "Journey to the West" Cave master, mountain master, altar master and village master.
——Although it sounds very magical and terrifying, in the final analysis, it is just a matter of changing the positions of family elders, ministers, ground servants, etc. in the Japanese samurai vassal country with titles that are full of "Journey to the West". At most In addition, the lord of the feudal lord has always been deprived of power and has never been able to govern personally.
However, in the eyes of the feudal literati of the Ming Dynasty, such a strange and evil regime was still unacceptable, not to mention that these guys were puppets supported by the "Australian thieves", so they were unceremoniously derogatory. It is a great demonic country. At that time, there were nefarious scholars who wrote countless disclosure posts, giving the leaders of the "Great Holy Kingdom" derogatory titles such as monster head, devil head, witch, and witch.
Next, after the news about the establishment of the "Great Holy Kingdom" spread to the inland provinces through countless hands, a lot of stories about the "Haizhou Demon" evolved through rumors and rumors, combined with traditional folk stories of gods and monsters. Horrible legends about "country" - such as the Haizhou Demon Kingdom The demon leader likes to use human skin to make flags and drums, and human bones to make magical instruments. He practices various evil methods all day long in order to live forever. For this reason, he needs to kill a large number of people to absorb their souls to sacrifice to the evil god; while the demon girls of Haizhou Demon Kingdom want to live forever. Youth, bathed in the blood of boys and girls every day, etc. Haizhou can almost be described as the lion and camel country where demons rule in "Journey to the West". It even attracted many eminent monks and Taoist priests who tried to "subdue demons and eliminate demons"... Of course, what happened to these eminent monks and Taoist priests after they came to Haizhou to "subdue demons and eliminate demons" was not to be beaten with sticks in the street. To die is to be sent to jail to eat.
However, although the above-mentioned ridiculous rumors are mostly fabricated. But it is true to say that the "Great Sages" of Haizhou are not good people - in order to make profits and gain favor, the "Great Sages" of Haizhou have long been engaged in the business of helping travelers to recruit immigrants. But in today's troubled times of killing and killing, most of the people Haizhou can get are not from legitimate origins, but refugees who have been captured and escorted like slaves by various warlords and bandits. Behind every strong man who was trafficked to Haizhou, there were countless burned towns and massacred villages.
As travelers sit in the vast and empty territories of Australia, America and Africa, their thirst for native Chinese immigrants is endless, and they have never hesitated to pay high prices to introduce immigrants. On the contrary, in the land of Huaihei and Huaihe, where there have been wars, fires and famines for many years, the people are living in dire straits to the extreme, and the situation is getting worse every year. In order to survive and grow, the bandits from all walks of life, who were short of money and food, naturally became more and more interested in selling slaves to Haizhou. As a result, the scale of the slave trade in Haizhou became larger and larger, and they died after being taken to Haizhou. There are more and more skeletons of old and weak people on the way to Haizhou. Later, due to the smearing and spreading of rumors by feudal literati and officials, it became a terrifying legend that the demon leaders of the "Haizhou Demon Kingdom" send minions to arrest people for blood sacrifice every year.
Of course, in the war-torn times when princes were rising and soldiers and horses were everywhere, the Great Holy Kingdom of Haizhou (the Great Demonic Kingdom) itself had been targeted by enemy forces many times. As for the performance of the great saints of the Haizhou Great Holy Kingdom with only a small number of soldiers on the wild battlefield, it seems that they can only be described as unsightly.
However, although they struggled in field battles, their thick legs were really powerful. Whenever they encountered a strong enemy, they would abandon the countryside and retreat to the strong forts built in advance on the seaside to defend themselves for a long time. The various military leaders in the Central Plains do not have fleets and cannot completely surround these port fortresses with their own docks. However, the Haizhou defenders were able to rely on sea routes to obtain supplies from the traversers. In the end, they overwhelmed the enemy's logistics and had to retreat.
After going back and forth, the surrounding military leaders all understood that Haizhou was a hard nut to crack with a backer. If they were not sure of winning, it would be better to do business honestly. The great saints also understood their own weight, and no longer dared to dream of any grandiose undertakings. Instead, they were content with their respective seaside corners, and even half of Haizhou Prefecture, which was far away from the coastline, The great saints of the Great Holy Kingdom gave up on their own initiative.
In this way, by relying on holding hands and being aware of current affairs, this small country finally survived in the whirlpool of the troubled times in the Central Plains.
Then, eighteen long years passed in a blink of an eye. As a temporary transitional regime that indirectly ruled the control areas of mainland China under the condition of insufficient strength, the Global Chinese Travelers Alliance, the "Great Holy Kingdom" of Haizhou finally ended its The historical mission of Guo Zuo has come to an end.
However, compared with the tragic and bloody scenes of national subjugation in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign history, the extremely strange "Great Holy Kingdom" of Haizhou in the late Ming Dynasty was calm and peaceful in an unusually peaceful and even festive way. Moving towards the end safely again...
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Haizhou Fucheng, the Royal Palace of the Great Holy Kingdom
Although it is a palace, as a mini "county-level country", Haizhou's palace cannot be very big. From the outside, it is just an ordinary two-story Western villa with a lawn and an iron fence outside. There are no elaborately arranged gardens, flowers, trees, or clear springs and ponds, only the simplest shrubs and green spaces. At first glance, it looks almost the same as the middle-class community housing in the United States in later generations.
At this moment, the owner of this miniature palace, the contemporary successor to the name of Sun Wukong, the "Monkey King" Empress Xu Xiner, who was scolded by countless gentry as a she-monkey temptress, was wearing a plain cheongsam and sitting upright. In front of the dressing table, three maids took turns waiting on her, dressing up in front of the mirror.
With the passage of eighteen years, this little queen who was once teased and bullied by the big sister of the time traveler has now become a woman as elegant as a lady, as charming and plump as a ripe fruit. Beautiful woman. It's just that she still failed to become a qualified monarch - the small political power of Haizhou was always trapped in internal and external difficulties and struggled to survive, which really did not allow her to truly grasp any rights.
However, other than that, she has basically lived a relatively stable life for the rest of her life. Moreover, today, Xu Xiner was in an especially happy mood.
Because today is the day when she gets married...well, to be precise, it is the day when she remarries as a widow. As early as fourteen years ago, Xu Xiner, who was still a young girl at the time, had a marriage, and her husband was sent to be her husband on orders. The time-traveling teacher of the tutor, because the teacher and the students have been alone for a long time, they actually went to bed to teach... Fortunately, although it was a "marriage", the result was basically satisfactory.
However, something unexpected happened. Eight years ago, in order to annex the "Great Holy Kingdom" of Hebei's "Mahayana Kingdom", which also came from the Wenxiang Sect, it sent a large number of assassins to sneak into Haizhou in an attempt to assassinate the Queen. Xu Xiner herself was safe and sound, but her husband was unfortunately killed, and the queen became a widow.
Fortunately, with the continuous cultural penetration of the Global Chinese Travelers Alliance for many years, things like widowhood and chastity arches have become less popular among the natives of the Ming Dynasty who were the "Australianized" natives. A few years later, the widow Xu Xiner successfully met the second spring of her life in Chinatown (Perth), the capital of Australia. Because of her love for flowers and plants, she met the director of the Australian Capital Botanic Garden, a middle-aged mourner. His wife's time traveler, the widower, quickly became acquainted with her. After several more years of love marathon, it was finally time to achieve success.
"...Mom! Have you dressed up yet? I've even packed my suitcase back to Australia!"
Along with the above loud words, a tall girl in a blue dress rushed in, followed by a middle-aged maid with a wry smile on her face - she was the only daughter of the "Monkey King" Queen Xu Xiner , Jin Xuezhu, the little princess of the "Great Holy Kingdom".
It seems that thanks to the excellent genes of the traveler's father, the sufficient nutrition of the "Australian diet", and the appropriate exercise in the "new school life", the underage Princess Jin Xuezhu is far taller than her mother. robust. Moreover, Jin Xuezhu learned Taekwondo in an Australian school club since she was a child. Among her peers, she was considered to be the invincible fighter in the whole school, so that she got an inexplicable nickname "Sun Wufan"...
(Those who can understand this joke are retro anime fans who have watched "Dragon Ball".)
According to the aesthetic values of the feudal literati of the Ming Dynasty who liked flat-chested lolita girls and deformed feet, and who emphasized "weak willows supporting the wind" and "lotus growing at every step", this tall and tall little princess Jin Xuezhu was simply an unsightly creature. . But in Australia, the home base of time travellers, Jin Xuezhu, a sporty and energetic girl with a model figure, is a popular figure in the school. Her beautiful photos often appear on the cover of school magazines and she is a fan in school and in society. countless. So every time he went back to Haizhou with his mother, the boss was reluctant. He couldn't stay for a few days before complaining that the place was too boring.
Fortunately, if nothing else happens, this should be the last time she has to follow her mother back to Haizhou...
"...Little girl is itchy again, isn't she? She's not stable at all at such an old age! She's only been here for a few days, and she's already thinking about going back to Australia?"
Xu Xiner turned around and rolled her eyes at her daughter angrily, "...take a closer look at the scenery on the ground in Haizhou! You won't be able to see it anymore!"
——Since her husband was assassinated, Xu Xiner, who became a widow, moved away from Haizhou. She lives with her daughter in Chinatown (Perth), the capital of the Chinese League, in Australia all year round. She only comes back to live for a month or two every year at most. Anyway, as a puppet queen, she has no actual government affairs to deal with.
But despite this, when she really wanted to give up this "imperial inheritance", she still felt a little melancholy in her heart.
"...What's there to see in this shabby place? Besides, you won't let me go outside the palace, even on the beach, saying it's not safe!"
Little Princess Jin Xuezhu curled her lips, "...the homes of several uncles and uncles (the other great sages) don't have much to do. Every time I go there, I'll be disturbed by the weird things in their homes (meaning bound feet and Ming Dynasty). Women dressed like ladies are poking at them, or being surrounded by a bunch of passionate young men to show their courtesy, which is really depressing on Huaguoshan Island! The scenery is nice, but we have lived on the island for so many years since we were young, and we know the location of every stone and tree by heart. We have already taken pictures of the places where we should take pictures. What else is there to see? ? Mom, why don’t you marry your new father as soon as possible, and then our family can go back to Australia for our honeymoon to go diving and see tropical fish?”
"...You...how can you talk like that! You are really not big or small! Oh, it's all my fault for spoiling you..."
After hearing her daughter's nagging complaints, Xu Xiner couldn't help but feel ashamed and angry. After staying in Australia for several years, her daughter has really turned into a real Australian from head to toe, with no respect for others. ! Then she smiled helplessly - just as the little princess said, in the Great Holy Kingdom under her name, which is only the size of a cat's forehead, there is really nothing worth seeing.
Looking out from the window of the palace, as soon as you move your sight beyond the iron fence of the courtyard, you will see a dilapidated and dirty scene. Apart from a rather impressive church in the distance and a salt company run by "Australians" in the suburbs, which look more or less like a modern city, the entire city of Haizhou is basically left with all kinds of weird slums and slums. The shanty town looks like a refugee camp at first glance...
There was no way, the frequent wars when the Ming Dynasty collapsed had already reduced the former Haizhou capital to ruins. After the "Great Sage Kingdom" was established, the "Great Sages" refused to spend money to repair the dilapidated Haizhou City. Instead, they often dismantled the city bricks and beams of Haizhou City and used them to build their own manors and bastions. Making the city look even more dilapidated. Before the official annexation of Haizhou, the travelers had no interest in overstepping their boundaries and building any infrastructure for the Great Holy Kingdom. They only focused on running the Huaguoshan Concession on the overseas islands, and at most, the Salt Company jointly established with the "Great Holy Kingdom" Just an industrial company.
Nowadays, except for the palace, the dock area and the salt company that have their own generators, there is no running water, no electricity, no street trees and street parks, no playgrounds and libraries in the entire Haizhou city, and there is no place that teenagers and girls like. Shopping malls and cinemas, not even Cement roads, asphalt roads, and even compacted cinder roads are only paved from the port terminal to the salt company. The rest are unhardened dirt roads with pits. When the wind blows, the sky is filled with dust, and when it rains It turned into a quagmire and exuded a disgusting stench.
It is early summer when the sea breeze is strong. The fresh sea breeze blowing from the Yellow Sea can also dispel the dirty air that permeates the city. In autumn and winter, the choking coal smoke and unpleasant stench will flow back from the city, making it unbearable even in the palace.
Since the urban environment in the city is so dilapidated, the public security situation is naturally in a mess. Even the police do not exist in the Holy Kingdom. They rely entirely on gangs to maintain underground order. It is basically similar to the modern Brazilian slums, "upper class society" If someone breaks in and wanders around, they will almost 10% be robbed and kidnapped as fat sheep. So how could Xu Xiner dare to agree to her daughter leaving the palace and walking on the street?
"...That's all. It seems that there is really nothing to miss in Haizhou. After your mother signs the gift of the country to the Chinese League government later, she will also sell the palace at a price, and she will stay here for the rest of her life. In Australia, never come back!”
"Monkey King" Queen Xu Xiner sighed melancholy, then smiled at her daughter, pointed to the row of clothes hangers behind her and asked, "...Come on, help mom take a look, what's inside here Which style of wedding dress looks more beautiful?…”
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On the other side, at the wedding ceremony venue where the "Monkey King" got married, the auditorium of the Chinese League Garrison Base was already filled with lights and colorful decorations. It was still early for the wedding, and most of the guests had not arrived yet. However, several local "Great Sages" from Haizhou came over early.
After eighteen years have passed, today's "Six Great Sages" of Haizhou have also gradually changed from old to new, and have been passed down to the second and even third generations. However, during this period, the degree of penetration and control of the Great Holy Kingdom of Haizhou by the travelers was also deepening. Today, the various leaders in Haizhou have been gradually dismissed by the time travelers, and the salt fields and most of the cultivated land have been taken away in the form of "joint stock companies". Apart from the nondescript "Great Sage" title above their heads, they only have their respective manors and the stocks of the salt company, plus a few shops and workshops.
Of course, some people were reluctant to do this, but their arms couldn't twist the thighs, so they had to pinch their noses and accept their fate. Among them, the group of people who jumped the highest once colluded with the "Mahayana Kingdom" in Hebei to cause rebellion and attempted to "drive out the bandits", but they were crushed and slaughtered in the blink of an eye. At present, among these "Great Sages" and their "cave masters" and "mountain masters", a few of them are still using their relationships with travelers to do business, or in the new court of the Chinese League. The location of the camp. But those mediocre people who have no ambitions simply rely on their father's inheritance to live in vain and become wealthy idlers.
And after today, the name of the Great Saint above them, which has long been reduced to a joke, will also disappear together with the Great Holy Kingdom itself.
"...Brother Huang, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you've lost money again. Is there something bothering you in business?"
At the round table in the corner of the venue, Mao Ti, the "Great Sage of Moving Mountains" who had just returned from doing business in Japan, first exchanged a few words with old acquaintances such as Dai Shu, the Great Sage of Ventilation, Zhang Yonglong, the Great Sage of Exorcism, and then began to express his feelings about how he had lost a lot of weight for some reason. Huang Hainuo, who looked worried, asked curiously.
——The real name of Mao Ti, the "Great Sage who Moves Mountains", is Mao Ti. Because he has two distinctive cat whiskers and a round and chubby face that looks like a cat, he is called Lord Cat by the people in the market. Call the cat tired. As time went by, his real name was almost forgotten.
I saw Mr. Mao Ti, the Great Sage of Yishan, saying this slowly, while reaching out to lift the Australian exquisite pot (transparent glass teapot) on the table, and poured a full cup of black tea into the teacup in front of the Great Sage of Pingtian Huang Hainuo. Then he added another cup for himself.
"...Oh, this...Brother Mao Ti, it's really hard to explain in words! I can't explain it, I can't explain it!"
Although Pingtian Great Sage Huang Hainuo took the tea cup, he still hesitated and refused to tell the truth. However, he couldn't stand it. Ventilation Great Sage Dai Shu exposed his background with one sentence, "...what else can I say?" What happened? Of course the grape trellis in our Bull Demon King’s house fell down again!”
(The Great Sage Pingtian is the Bull Demon King in Journey to the West.)
"...That's right, brother Mao Ti, you came back a step too late and didn't see the scene the day before yesterday when Lao Huang was raided by his wife! Hey, our Bull Demon King is with two delicate Persians. Ji was shirtless together Running around in the city, being chased through three streets by Princess Iron Fan with a whip! That scene was really... Hey, I don't know how Lao Huang stayed down and knelt on the washboard for several hours before he survived. This calamity!”
The Great Sage Zhang Yonglong who was sitting on the other side was also laughing. He ignored the blushing face of the Great Sage Huang Hainuo and described the scandal of this guy to Mao Tiu with embarrassment - in fact, almost similar things happened in Hai The state has become a household name and a common sight. The reason why Huang Hainuo, the "Great Sage of Pingtian", is so weak and suffers from the roar of the lion from the east of the river every three days is because his title of "Great Sage of Pingtian" and his estate property are all obtained from his father-in-law and master. I inherited it from there, but I couldn't change my lustful and lustful nature. I always thought that domestic flowers were not as fragrant as wild flowers.
And his wife Hu Guangyan, before she rebelled with her father-in-law, she was a charlatan. She not only practiced martial arts well and was good at all kinds of strange weapons, she was also prolific in killing people and had a domineering and fierce temperament. She was a tomboy, what kind of woman? She doesn't know anything about virtue, so she is called "Princess Iron Fan".
Huang Hainuo was originally an orphan and apprentice adopted by his father-in-law, but he was beaten up by Hu Guangyan, a junior sister, from childhood. How can he be so tough in front of his wife after marriage? Therefore, "Princess Iron Fan Beats the Bull Demon King" has become the most talked about street scene in Haizhou among the people.
"...Hey, Brother Huang, this is not the first time that your wife has caught you raising a woman outside. Why do you still keep your home in the city?"
After hearing the cause and effect, Mao Tired couldn't help but laugh and said, "...there is just such a small place in the city of Haizhou City, with a little bit of disturbance and gossip, how can we hide it from the people who are interested? Isn't this waiting to be raided? Could it be that Brother Huang just wants to Don’t you want to build a small manor in the countryside to hide your beauty?”
"...Well, to be honest, I have also purchased this foreign house in the countryside. Unfortunately, only a month later, it was attacked by an unknown group of horse thieves in Huaishang at night, and they killed and looted everything. They burned it to the ground. The two West Lake boat girls who spent a lot of money to buy them have disappeared..."
Huang Hainuo, the great sage of Pingtian, said with a wry smile, "... No matter how chaotic the city is, there is still some order. Outside, it is really the jungle of the jungle."
Hearing this, all the great sages also fell silent. As a very aggressive small semi-colonial regime, the effective control range of the Great Holy Kingdom of Haizhou has never exceeded twenty miles from the coastline. Just outside the city wall, there is a lawless hell on earth... As large tracts of cultivated land were abandoned and turned into grasslands, on both sides of the Huaihe River in the hinterland of China, gangs of horse thieves and herds of wild horses appeared like Mongolian cavalry...
However, if compared with the areas further west in eastern Henan and northern Anhui, even the northern Jiangsu area near Haizhou is already inadequate but more than adequate. Especially in the Kaifeng area in eastern Henan, since the Qing army flooded Kaifeng and demolished the Yellow River embankment 20 years ago, it has not yet been blocked, forming a thousands-mile-long yellow flood area with dozens of once densely populated areas. Now all the prefectures and counties are left with only bones and bones, and every place is deserted. If Cao Cao were reborn in this era, looking at the appearance of his hometown, he would probably cry out again with tears in his eyes: "The bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crow for a thousand miles."
The Lianghuai River in the south was once the main battlefield where the Qing and Dashun armies fought for many years. Many prosperous cities that were dotted along the canal during the Ming Dynasty's prosperity have now all disappeared due to the destruction of the war and the siltation of the canal. In particular, Yangzhou, the most prosperous and prosperous city, was burned to the ground by rioters during the internal strife of the Qing army. It is still a charred ruin, and the famous "Yangzhou thin horse" has also been passed down.
As for Shandong in the north, the cities were also reduced to ruins, the canals were completely silted up, and the once fertile farmland had turned into lush elm forests. There was even a peasant army of tens of thousands of people who took over the elm forests and became king, relying solely on elm money to make a living. The military rations were enough to satisfy their hunger, and they were known as the "Yuyuan Army" to the outside world.
——Although it sounds very interesting, you must know that when the elm forest stretching for hundreds of miles in western Shandong Province was still cultivated land, it could feed millions of people... But today, who I can’t tell where all the disappeared people have gone...
"...Haha, Brother Huang is really suffering. I think after today's reduction of the vassal vassal is completed and the land is restored, Australian soldiers will be stationed ashore to improve public security, and the ground in Haizhou will be more peaceful. I am going to Japan this time. I just came back from buying some nuns, so I might as well give you two to calm the fire!”
After a while, Mao Tiu forced a smile and changed the topic to talk about what he had seen and heard in Japan not long ago - it turned out that the Catholic Maori family had been fighting fiercely for more than 20 years, and had killed two generations of family governors before finally being reunited. This spring crushed Buddhism and Guan The Toho clan's desperate resistance led to the annihilation of the Tokugawa family, their former masters, and the killing of all the family members, old and young. Now they are launching a counterattack in Japan, destroying temples and destroying Buddhism. They have not only converted a large number of Buddhist temples into churches, but also dragged them with ropes. Monks and nuns went to the market to sell. Seeing that the price was cheap, Mao Tiu bought more than twenty young nuns to try the water...
"...So, the whole of Japan has now become the country of God? Oh, thank you to the almighty God..."
The Great Sage Huntian Crow, Taoist Crow, who was sitting aside without saying a word, couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard this, and he made the sign of the cross on his chest.
——This so-called crow Taoist is certainly not a monster that turned into a crow, or even a Taoist. Just because he is dark and thin, he has been nicknamed Crow since he was a child. Later, he converted to Catholicism for some reason, put on a black robe and became a priest. He tried to preach in Haizhou, so he was called Crow Taoist by the uninformed natives. However, although this "Crow Taoist" is devout in his faith, his communication skills are very poor. Coupled with a hoarse throat that looks like a broken gong, there are only a few people who are willing to listen to his preaching, and his missionary career in Haizhou has never been successful. Open the situation.
However, although his missionary career was quite unsuccessful, his personal financial fortune was quite good. Eight years ago, in order to annex the "Great Holy Kingdom" of the same lineage as the Wenxiang Sect, the "Mahayana Kingdom" of Hebei, which once expanded to Shandong, sent assassins to sneak into Haizhou. Not only did they attempt to assassinate the Queen, but they also moved against several other great saints. Handed. As a result, the former Great Sage Huntian was betrayed by his close men, causing his own fortress to be breached, and everyone in the family was killed, no one was spared. However, Taoist Wu Wu, who was originally just a concubine, rose to heaven in one step after the incident and inherited the name of Great Sage Huntian and the remaining family property. The overjoyed Taoist Crow immediately thanked God, and then spent a lot of money, using most of the inheritance to build a luxurious cathedral in Haizhou.
However, although the magnificent Haizhou Cathedral was built, Master Crow's missionary career still showed no improvement, making him frown all day long.
For such a blabbering fanatic believer, the other great saints obviously had nothing in common with him. They just reluctantly agreed with him and then turned to other topics. For example, after the removal of the Great Holy Kingdom, their family Where do people go? Should they continue to stay in Haizhou and settle down, or should they move? To the peaceful places that are far away from the war, such as Lingnan and Taiwan... Just as everyone was expressing their opinions and talking, Mao Tiu suddenly noticed something wrong, "...Eh? Why does it seem like there is someone missing? We are there What about the great sage who can turn the world upside down? ”
"...You mean the waves are turning upside down? He is waiting on the pier for the chief minister from Australia!" Huang Hainuo, the Great Sage of Pingtian, curled his lips and replied.
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At the same time, at the pier of Haizhou New Port, Mr. Qi Jianjun, the third national chairman of the Chinese League, who was born in North America and came specially to watch the ceremony, was smiling happily with the groom Guan Liu who was about to marry the "Monkey King" Queen Xu Xiner. Dao Hei repeatedly congratulated the director of the Chinese League Capital Botanical Garden. Time was flattered - although as the director of the Botanical Garden of Chinatown, the capital of the Chinese League, Mr. Liu Daohei was an official in the individual system, but compared with a big shot like the President of the country, he was really different and could be received. Once was enough to keep Principal Liu Daohei excited for half a month.
After sending away the groom officers who came to greet him, Chairman Qi Jianjun turned around and saw groups of Chinese League Marines wearing light blue summer combat uniforms stepping off the transport ship one after another on the springboard. Then the whole team was assembled in batches in the open field beside the pier, and various whistles, passwords, and whistles were sounded continuously. Marshal Huang Shi, Minister of Defense, who also came to watch the ceremony and inspect, slowly drove over in a jeep.
"...Marshal Huang, how does the situation look like here in Haizhou?" Chairman Qi Jianjun asked with a smile as he watched Huang Shi jump out of the jeep.
"...The hydrological conditions of the bay in Haizhou are not bad, better than Lianyungang in later generations. However, the port facilities are far from adequate, and the land roads are in poor condition. It will take at least four months of rush expansion to support 100,000 people. The above-mentioned supply needs of the regularized army for long-term operations.”
Marshal Huang Shi, the already gray-haired Minister of Defense of the Chinese League, raised his hand to give a military salute to Chairman Qi Jianjun, and replied calmly, "...Of course, with our military's engineering capabilities and transportation capabilities, it is not a problem to overcome the above troubles. . The real question is, has the government really made up its mind? This time it is not a short and quick surgical strike, but a real conquest and governance, or even a quagmire of security war!"
——In the past few years, in view of the actual situation that the Chinese League has a vast territory and sparsely populated areas, and although its material strength is strong, its human resources are stretched thin, the overall strategy adopted on the Chinese battlefield has always been "sealing operations along the coastline of mainland China." In short, it is to use the method of maritime invasion, from the Red River Estuary and Beibu Gulf in the southernmost part of China's traditional territory, to the Liaodong Peninsula and Vladivostok in the northernmost part, using a combination of direct rule and indirect control to establish an encompassing The entire isolation zone along China's coastal areas puts all mainland China's foreign trade and communication channels in the hands of travelers, preventing other Western overseas forces from intervening in China's war situation and causing unplanned variables.
Although due to various reasons, the two small sections of coastline of Tianjinwei and Songjiangfu (Shanghai) were not controlled by the Chinese League, after controlling the Shandong Peninsula, Liaodong Peninsula and Changshan Islands, any unauthorized Western ships Neither can enter the Bohai Sea, and Tianjin Port has lost its role. The Chinese Alliance fleet was also stationed on Chongming Island to the north of Songjiang Prefecture, making this seaport controlled by the Qing government also trapped in a cage.
In addition, the Chinese League Army is content to occupy the coast and avoid going too deep into the densely populated inland areas of China in order to save troops and reduce the pressure on public security. At the same time, it provokes the internal army lords and princes to fight with each other, so that it can pass the destruction of the war. and frequent natural disasters, "squeezing out" a large number of refugees from the land of the Chinese motherland, so that they can be recruited and absorbed by the travelers who are entrenched along the coast, and used to reclaim and develop many desolate areas around the world.
In general, this is a quite cold and rational strategy, which has allowed the Chinese League based overseas to gain more than 20 million Chinese immigrants. After these years of reproduction, as well as immigrants from other ethnic groups and naturalized people, Supplementary, bringing the total population of the Chinese League to 40 million, completely getting rid of the past dilemma of having an empty territory but lack of population. But behind all this "war wealth" lies the devastating catastrophe of China's local society.
Behind every Chinese immigrant who went abroad and headed for the vast world, there were at least two or three people who died of hunger and weapons.
——Just like the rapid formation and expansion of the Yellow River Delta in Dongying City, Shandong Province, it will inevitably mean serious soil erosion in the upper reaches.
Obviously, given that the human growth and replacement cycle is so long, this blood-sucking process cannot be sustained for a long time.
But now, it seems that the time has come to completely stop and update the previous strategy that only attracted manpower and did not seek land...
"...Marshal, you should understand that as long as we still regard ourselves as Chinese and still have a Chinese heart beating in our hearts, then unless the actual situation really does not allow it, the battle to regain mainland China and conquer the Chinese hometown will not be possible. We must fight! Especially now that we have the capital to do so! Twenty years ago, we only had a population of three million, but Ming Dynasty had 200 million people. Technical advantages alone are not enough for us to do so. Xiaobo Even if we occupy the vast mainland of China, we do not have enough grassroots cadres to carry out social reforms. Now, we have a population of 40 million, but the population of the Ming Dynasty has dropped to 50 or 60 million in these two decades. During the time, Hua Meng has also educated a team of grassroots civil servants with new knowledge and enough to take on local governance and reform! Even if there are constraints from other fronts, we can give it a try!
In addition, according to the assessment of the intelligence agencies, after more than 20 years of continuous melee and famine, with the rapid decline of mainland China's population and the large-scale waste of land across the country, the war inducements and destructive energy contained in China's local society have all It's almost exhausted. Since the collapse of Li Zicheng's Dashun Dynasty, the frequency and intensity of wars across China have dropped significantly, and we have been able to recruit fewer and fewer refugees. ”
Chairman Qi Jianjun said this, "...In other words, the land of China is no longer densely populated, but vast and sparsely populated. Even if the princes from all walks of life want to continue fighting, they are already exhausted and have no troops and no pay. Since In this way, we can make up our minds to enter the battlefield
The troubled times in China have lasted for so many years. The princes and warlords in the Central Plains have experienced years of melee, famine and plague. Their military and financial resources have been weakened to the limit, and the people's support has not been very supportive of them. However, we have opened up thousands of miles of fertile soil in the Americas, Australia and Africa, and our strength is far from what it used to be. Even the feudal literati and officials who once controlled public opinion and people's hearts and were bent on opposing us have been almost killed after so many years of war, and they can no longer disgust people. If we still dare not fight in such a good situation, then how long will it take to recover China? ”
"...Well, as long as the Central Committee of the Chinese League can reach a consensus and stick to it, the rest of the technical issues will not be a problem."
After listening to Chairman Qi Jianjun's explanation, Marshal Huang Shi sighed and responded, "...To be honest, I am also looking forward to reunifying the broken rivers and mountains of China with my own hands every day in my lifetime! Otherwise there will always be something wrong It feels like becoming a ******..."
At this moment, there was a commotion outside the pier. It turned out to be a group of unkempt and ragged indigenous men. Under the supervision of sticks and whips, they were dragged by strings by the local Great Holy Kingdom "militia" and forcibly driven to the pier. Then the military doctors opened their mouths like animals to check their teeth, then pinched the muscles in their legs and arms, and beat their legs and armpits with bamboo poles, forcing them to perform some jumping and rolling movements. After completing these basic inspections, these strong men were driven into several different camps in different categories, where they were arranged to shave their heads, bathe, eat and rest...
Behind this group of slovenly refugees, Haizhou's local gangster, "The Great Sage of Overturning the Sea" Chu Richuan, was rubbing his hands and approaching Marshal Huangshi and Chairman Qi Jianjun with a smile on his face, "...two chiefs, you request to collect... I have gathered all the young coolies. It should be okay, right?”
——This sea-turning sage Chu Richuan is nicknamed Lang Fantian. He was once an outstanding graduate of the Chinese League Hong Kong Naval School, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander and patrol captain. The reason why he has such a domineering nickname is not because he is good at sailing and naval warfare, but because after he became the captain, he went crazy and hid two Indian slave women on the warship to facilitate patrols at sea. After that, he could have fun at any time, but he was found out by the disciplinary inspection department and was dismissed as a model. The sailors on his ship also knew that He was punished without reporting the incident, and even his immediate superiors were punished. In addition, it also triggered a disciplinary investigation by the Chinese Alliance Navy, which resulted in the dismissal or demotion of more than 200 officers... Because of this A lustful bastard committed suicide, causing hundreds of people in the navy to suffer great misfortune. Churi's ship's reputation as "Troubleshooting" spread like wildfire and became famous far and wide.
Next, after being kicked out of the navy, Chu Richuan had to return to Haizhou in despair, inheriting his father's title of "Sea-Overturning Sage", as well as his manor and property in Haizhou. But despite this setback, Chu Richuan's yearning for fame and official career remained undiminished, and he was always thinking about getting an official position in the Chinese League government. It's a pity that this guy's "promiscuous" deeds are so notorious that no yamen dared to hire him for so many years.
Just when Chu Richuan, the "Great Sage of Overturning the Sea", was trying to make a comeback but had no way to get in, he suddenly heard that the Chinese League was planning to take advantage of the opportunity of the marriage of the "Great Sage of Monkey King", Queen Xu Xin'er, to officially cancel the "Great Sage". The country "changed its land and returned to its homeland, and even The Minister of Defense and the President of the country both came to observe the ceremony... So Chu Richuan, the "Great Sage of Overturning the Sea", suddenly became excited as if he had been given blood, and took the initiative to come forward to serve, and to serve all the people from the central government. . From recruiting young men, surveying the terrain, and requisitioning land, he took the initiative to do everything and was extremely proactive. On the other hand, Chairman Qi Jianjun is also preparing to set up a typical benchmark of "horse bones worth a thousand pieces of gold" in order to recruit local powerful factions in the upcoming mainland strategy. In this way, Chairman Qi Jianjun, while maintaining a kind and smiling expression, listened to Chu Richuan, the "sea-turning sage", ramble on about his achievements on the surface, while raising his eyebrows and winking at Marshal Huangshi. Although Huang Shi didn't like this guy who couldn't control his lower body, he had no choice but to obey the political requirements. He sighed and walked up, saying in a slightly cold tone, "...Comrade Chu Richuan, thank you very much for your support of our army. For your help, the country will always remember your contribution. Then, out of consideration for the future war in mainland China, The Ministry of National Defense plans to establish a military labor company in Haizhou. Are you interested in serving as the first general manager? Well, if you take office now, I can grant you the temporary rank of captain immediately. If you perform well in the future, There is also the opportunity to transfer to the regular engineering force and obtain a formal military rank..."