In the winter of the 15th year of Mingchang (1780), Jing Kingdom was the city of the extreme north.

The capital of King Jing, which once occupied the northern border, was filled with smoke at this time. The city wall, about six feet high, was blown to pieces. The city wall, nearly thirty miles, was surrounded by a large number of cavalry and was airtight.

This giant city that has been built during the reign of Emperor Shizu and has been repaired for more than a hundred years since then. It is the center of the entire Jing Kingdom and the northern grassland.

"Have you called reinforcements?"

King Jing Li Congwu casually tied up his long hair, draped his coat, and looked at the city with an angry face.

Below the city, there were wandering cavalry everywhere, cheering and cursing, pointing fingers at the Far North City, but as the king, he was unable to slaughter.

Nothing else, the scale of these cavalry exceeded 20,000, among which nearly 3,000 Cossack cavalry were equipped with muskets and dozens of rare artillery pieces, which defeated the Jing army.

"The king, the envoy has been gone for half a month, and it means that the court is afraid that it will be unable to provide assistance."

Wang Xiang, who was beside him, said helplessly.

"The Rakshasa people are really too bullying!"

Li Congwu said viciously: "I slaughtered more than a dozen cities and destroyed several of my priests, but now I am siege the capital."

"The Far North City will never be taken down by it."

"Your Highness, although the Rakshasa ghost cannon is powerful, our Jibei City is a huge city in the world and will never be taken."

Wang Xiang said confidently: "They can't last long in the cold winter."

Sure enough, in less than a few days, the Cossacks saw that they could not get the city and plundered them again, so they withdrew their troops.

At this time, reinforcements from several principalities arrived late.

Li Congwu was so angry that he scolded him hard in private, but he had to be kind and take out the money and reward him.

Jing Kingdom is located in the northern part of the Mo Dynasty. It has been siege for eight hundred years since the founding of the Emperor's throne, and has been besieged by powerful enemies several times, but with the support of the giant city and the court, it has barely maintained to this day.

For eight hundred years, each time they conquered a tribe, they set up a principality and called themselves a small China. Over the past few hundred years, they have been destroyed and resurrected, and there are only about twenty remaining.

But in the past century, the people of Rakshasa have risen and constantly invaded and fought. The land of Jing Kingdom has been continuously lost, and now there are only 120,000 herdsmen.

The vassal states were mourned because of the majesty of Jing State, and they often listened to the tune but not the proclamation.

Now, the matter has to rely on the court.

Li Congwu said with some expectations: "It would be best if the court can send some artillery here."

Beijing.

Since Li Changyi destroyed Xu, considering that Luoyang is in the south and the northeast belongs to its own rear, the capital is moved to Youzhou and is in the northern Zhili.

After becoming emperor, he died for twenty years, and his temple name was Guangzu.

After that, he went through six generations and Emperor Mingchang.

Due to the development of the Northeast Plain, the population pressure has been greatly alleviated, the grain output has increased greatly, and the treasury is full, which can be said to be a prosperous era.

But under such a prosperous era, there is a great crisis hidden.

"Your Majesty, Jing Kingdom sent envoys to seek help, and the Rakshasa Kingdom invaded the border, and the royal capital was in danger."

"What are the charters of my husbands?"

Emperor Mingchang asked softly, squinted his eyes.

"Your Majesty, Jing Kingdom is an old vassal of the Emperor's dynasty. It is almost the same as the country. All the people in the world have heard of it and have to save it, otherwise it will damage the prestige of the court."

Prime Minister Liu Yong took a step forward and said in a deep voice.

"That's right!" Wang Jie also spoke: "Besides, over the years, Jing State has been located in the northern part of the Mo River and has resisted many invading enemies. If he waits for the country to be destroyed, he will probably be in danger in the northern part of the court."

Emperor Mingchang raised his eyelids and looked at everyone. Seeing that it was basically the same, he thought about his status as the vassal state and couldn't help but say, "Let's support his muskets and ten cannons!"

"Money, you will be lucky to have ten thousand silver dollars."

"No!" The Secretariat's servant next to him was busy drafting the imperial edict.

"Report—"

Suddenly, a roar came from outside the Meridian Gate, and then it got closer and went straight into the hall.

"Report to Your Majesty, 800 miles overseas will be expedited."

The guards came in to report.

"Come in, let him in."

Emperor Mingchang's eyelids were pounding, and he felt that this was not good news.

Sure enough, as expected.

"The Tianzhu vassal state urgently reported--"

Then, it came up.

Emperor Mingchang looked carefully and his face was gloomy. After a while, he said, "Let me take a look."

The prime ministers looked through them one by one, their faces solemn.

It turned out that the vassal states of India jointly sent letters of help, saying that England, France, Portugal, and the three-country coalition forces had about 10,000 people swept half of India, and the remaining vassal states were in danger.

There were originally about thirty-five vassal states, but now only ten are left, so we can join us to keep warm.

As early as the time of Emperor Shizu, the footprints of the Tang people began to appear in Tianzhu.

Immediately, the Wei Kingdom took the first step, divided more than ten principalities, and occupied the northern part of India.

Later, seven or eight vassal states were also enfeoffed along the coastal areas.

However, after the establishment of Xu State, the navy was dispatched to suppress many vassal states, and the Indian kingdoms were almost extinct.

Later, Guangzu restored the Tang Dynasty again. After three hundred years of isolation, he re-established the vassal states on the peninsula of the vassal states, formed a navy, landed in India again, and built a vassal state.

Because the climate in India is suitable and much better than the crowded peninsula of the vassal states, over the past hundred years, emperors of all dynasties have been continuously enfeoffed offspring and established more than 20 vassal states one after another.

In addition to the Duchy of Wei, the total was more than 30, and nearly 70% of the land in Tianzhu was divided up.

Therefore, the vassal states in India were basically the emperor's direct blood relatives, the closest ones, and even his younger brothers.

How could this situation not make him angry?

"The English are so bold!"

He slapped the table hard, and Emperor Mingchang was furious. He shouted: "I, I must teach them a lesson."

"Your Majesty, the British artillery is sharp, and the words of the vassal state capital are twice as good as those of the imperial court."

Liu Yong hurriedly said: "For the sake of the present, we can only learn the skills of cannons and the benefits of muskets to deal with these barbarians."

"Then wait for my family members to destroy the country?"

Emperor Mingchang said unhappy.

"Taiduo of the vassal states on the vassal peninsula had contact with barbarians and had many muskets and cannons. They could send generals from the court and the vassals to send troops and weapons to Tianzhu for rescue."

"It only takes two or three years to slow down and the new artillery will be successful, and the barbarians will find it difficult to show off their strength."

"That's right!"

Emperor Mingchang nodded and recovered. He whispered: "After all, the people of India are too weak. They believe in Brahma religion, and they are all soft in their bones."

"It is justified to use Tang generals and vassal soldiers to go to India."

Wang Jie smiled and said, "In addition, the court can ask Wei Fan to send troops to attack the barbarians together, and it costs very little to curb the barbarians."

"By the way!" At this time, the emperor suddenly asked: "From the advice of the vassal states, the barbarians have a powerful weapon called steam engine, which can pump water and even weave fabrics."

"It's true!" Liu Yong had a broad knowledge and thought for a while before he said, "In fact, this thing was there as early as the Emperor Shizu's dynasty, but it was too bulky for a while, so he gradually abandoned it. Now the barbarians have picked it up again, and have improved it slightly, and then used it."

"Is that true?" Emperor Mingchang was a little surprised, and then he smiled and said, "Since it is something that has already existed for a long time, let's use it too."

"This steam engine is several times faster than a weaving machine. If it is used, it may provide a lot of taxes."

"This commercial tax has not increased for many years. The more the imperial court uses it, can't we think of some way?"

The emperor smiled.

"Your Majesty's wise!"

The ministers complimented.

In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that this is a scarcity of the inner treasury and is not enough to support the emperor in building a palace.

In the 20th year of Mingchang, General Zhang Guosheng fought against 20,000 troops of England and other countries with 100,000, with more than half of them killed or injured, and they won a tragic victory.

Thousands of British men were captured, and only more than 5,000 escaped.

Later, Britain, Portugal, France and the West signed a peace treaty with the Tang Dynasty and divided the country into Tianzhu.

With the Tianzhu River as the boundary, the Ganges River Basin west belongs to the four countries, and to the east belongs to the Tang Dynasty.

At this point, peace has ushered in nearly fifty years.

For the Tang Dynasty, being forced to negotiate peace with the barbarians was a shame.

But the distance is too far and there is nothing we can do.

In order to defend against the enemy abroad, he also supported the vassal states and formed the Western Navy again to tour India and the vassal peninsulas.

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The end of the play.
Chapter completed!