779 [Da Ming ruled Yinzhou and established the Kingdom of Germania]
The Great Guanzhong Earthquake affected 101 counties, and two floors of the Xi'an Small Wild Goose Pagoda were directly shaken off.
It seems that the world line has been closed. The highest official who died this time was still Han Bangqi, the minister who became an official. Mr. Hange was sleeping at home when the earthquake cracked the kang, and he fell into the kang pit and was burned to death.
It was a year later that Wang Yuan learned about Han Bangqi's death, and he wrote a special eulogy and sent it to Shaanxi.
Historically, this man was dismissed from office for offending local eunuchs, and was ostracized in various ways after his resurrection. During his tenure as an official, he never ate or drank with public funds, and even used Lumi to buy meat in exchange for it in the market. He was particularly good at it.
He is proficient in mathematics, classics and history, and also studies astronomy, geography, music and the art of war.
In this time and space, Han Bangqi was originally a member of the Yang Party and was awarded Jinshi one term earlier than Wang Yuan.
It wasn't until Wang Yuan started large-scale reforms that Han Bangqi quickly showed his prominence and gradually entered the core circle of the reformists. When Wang Yuan went to sea, Han Bangqi was the censor of Youdu, responsible for supervising the national river water conservancy. After working for a few years, he became famous.
Resigned due to illness and returned home.
Unexpectedly, he died in the earthquake.
After Tian Qiu fully took over the government, the post-earthquake reconstruction work progressed rapidly. He dispatched nearly a hundred reformist officials and allocated 3 million taels of silver to Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces. In addition to reconstruction and disaster relief, there was also the need to control the spread of the plague.
The number of people who died from the post-earthquake plague has exceeded the number of earthquake victims.
Because it involved numerous court appropriations, and during the period, there was also work to be done on the property, and the impeachment memorial floated to the capital like snowflakes.
Tian Qiu showed an impressive iron fist. He carried all these memorials and promised directly in the court that he would resign and leave after completing this task.
Unfortunately, just after the earthquake, Tian Qiu died of mental and physical exhaustion as soon as his work got back on track. He was given the posthumous title of "Wen Mu" as Taifu.
Shi Dao, who had just entered the cabinet, also died of exhaustion in office. He added the crown prince and grand master.
Zhu Zaiyi was extremely depressed and summoned Yan Song and Xia Yan. They immediately asked to resign. After three requests and three resignations, they agreed.
The first assistant of the Ming Dynasty became Zhan Ruoshui, the founder of Ganquan Xinxue and Wang Yangming's best friend.
The second assistant of the Ming Dynasty became Xia Pangmo, Yang Shen's close friend, an old Yang Party member who openly fell out with Yang Tinghe, but refused to integrate into the royal party's reformist party.
Nie Bao, Wang Yangming's direct disciple and a member of the core reform faction, was transferred back to the central government by the emperor and urgently joined the cabinet to assist the government.
A new cabinet troika was formed, and violent conflicts immediately broke out.
Chabonmo and Nie Bao were both hard-working reformers, and both had hot tempers. They were not from the same faction. They both advocated deepening reforms, but they were full of contradictions in their specific implementation, and they often had red-faced quarrels in the cabinet.
Fortunately, the first assistant, Zhan Ruoshui, is a humble gentleman. He always stands up to calm down quarrels and formulates policies based on their opinions.
Zhan Ruoshui was ninety years old, and he soon became exhausted physically and mentally. He resigned after only half a year as chief minister. The emperor was too embarrassed to persuade him to stay, so he could only approve it.
Xia Bangmo was automatically promoted to the position of Chief Assistant, but his foundation was not deep and he could not defeat Nie Bao, the leader of the royal party. Most of the time, Nie Bao had the final say.
As a direct disciple of Nie Bao, Xu Jie successfully took charge of the Ministry of Rites, but was quickly impeached by officials for corruption.
After investigation, it was found that Xu Jie himself was not corrupt, but his family was frantically annexing land and using disgraceful means. More than half of the 10,000 acres of fertile land that Nie Bao cultivated in Huating County had become the Xu family's property;
About a quarter of the 30,000 canals dredged in Huating County have been occupied by the Xu family for a long time.
Nie Bao was furious. Those were his political achievements, but they were secretly eaten by his students!
Xu Jie resigned from office and became a citizen, and the Xu family was fined and confiscated 100,000 acres of land.
After that, Chabonmo was forced to compromise and began to govern jointly with Nie Bao.
Xia Bangmo proposed to implement "dividing a small person into an acre" nationwide, and Nie Bao cooperated tacitly.
Nie Bao proposed reforming the municipal shipping department system, and Xia Bangmo also praised it. In this regard, maritime trade implemented a "trading company system". Only by registering a trading company with the municipal shipping department in various places and transporting sufficient grain back to the Ming Dynasty every year can they obtain the import certificate issued by the municipal shipping department.
Export license.
Nie Bao's trading company system is actually a company system, and a limited number of company licenses are issued every year.
Many small-scale maritime merchants could only form partnerships to form trading companies. As a result, countless "joint-stock import and export trading companies" were born, which greatly facilitated the court's control over maritime merchants and also spawned many private smuggling groups.
The cabinet led by Shabonmo and Nie Bao was nicknamed the "Leopard Cabinet" by the people.
"Mo" is homophonic to "tapir", and "Erya" explains it as "white leopard".
Xia Bangmo is a leopard, and Nie Bao is a leopard. Isn’t this the “Leopard Cabinet”?
The "Leopard Cabinet" turned away from the lukewarm behavior of the previous administrations and was determined to reform internally and actively expand externally.
Chen Li, the lord of Central America, was named "Eastern Haibo". Central America was divided into several counties, and the imperial court dispatched officials to serve as county magistrates.
Chen Li was not very obedient. He accepted the title of earl and refused to return to the court because he was ill.
Chen Li was also very respectful to the county magistrates sent by the imperial court, but he ignored them and paid taxes every year to transport them back to the Ming Dynasty.
Such cooperation and lack of cooperation left the court with no choice but to acquiesce in Chen Li's semi-independent status.
In the third year of the "Leopard Cabinet"'s rule, the "Yinzhou Naval War" broke out between the Ming Dynasty and Spain. Immediately, the Governor of Yinzhou began to invade Mexico, and Chen Li was forced to lead his army to follow the Northern Expedition.
Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Costa Rica were all included in the colonial territory of the Ming Dynasty. The Inca Empire (Peru and northern Chile) was economically controlled by the Ming Dynasty and became a dumping ground for Ming products.
The Mexican Mint, along with many gold and silver mines, were favored by Governor Yinzhou of the Ming Dynasty.
Spanish colonial forces were driven back to Cuba and Haiti.
As for Chen Li, he actually controls the southwestern coast of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, with a registered population of 160,000, a deputy registered population of 80,000, and a remaining registered population of 250,000. He can mobilize tens of thousands of troops for war at any time. However, his navy
He is very weak, he still has to listen to the imperial court, and he will not dare to publicly proclaim himself king until his death.
Why is Spain so inexperienced?
Because Spain has been torn apart.
King Henry II of France continued to provoke Spain and massacred Spanish border civilians.
Spain, which was heavily in debt and had no money for a war in a short period of time, actually chose to give in step by step.
Henry II pushed further and used thousands of muskets purchased on credit from Wang Yuan to form a powerful musketeer force. Historically, these troops only occupied three bishoprics in Spain, but now they have occupied five bishoprics (these
The territory was close to Germany, and later it was mostly French territory, but at this time it belonged to the Holy Roman Empire).
King Charles V of Spain finally couldn't sit still and led an army of 60,000 to march in person.
After half a year of siege in Metz, the Spanish army ran out of food and supplies, and Charles V's gout worsened. When Spain was forced to withdraw, it was pursued by the French army, with more than 40,000 casualties, and Charles V's majesty was completely lost.
France expanded its territory and Spain suffered a serious decline.
At this time, the German Protestant nobles took the opportunity to cause trouble, and Spain was unable to deal with it. It could only sign a treaty with the Protestant nobles and recognize the legal status of Protestantism in the HRE.
The Pope was furious and denounced Charles V as a heretic.
First he was beaten by the French, then he was bullied by the Protestant nobles, and now he was beaten as a heretic by the Pope. He was suffering from gout all day long. Charles V finally couldn't hold on any longer.
This man announced his abdication, hid in a monastery to serve God, handed over Spain and the Netherlands to his son, and divided the Holy Roman Empire and Austria among his younger brothers. His son succeeded him as King of Spain, and his younger brother succeeded him as Emperor of Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria.
As soon as Philip II succeeded to the throne of Spain, the seven provinces of the Netherlands began to seek independence, and the Spanish Armada was mobilized to blockade the Netherlands.
At this time, a naval battle broke out between the Ming Dynasty and Spain in Yinzhou, and Spain did not have many warships available!
When the Ming Dynasty was frantically snatching Spanish colonies, the "Second Northern War" broke out in Europe.
While carrying out reforms, Ivan the Terrible expanded crazily. He had already conquered the country of Astrakhan, brought the entire Volga Basin under his rule, and turned the North Caucasus into his vassal. This guy turned around and started fighting "Poland-Lithuania"
", and formed an alliance with Wang Ji, the "King of Northern Europe".
Wang Ji, who had been farming for ten years, sent troops to conquer Brandenburg and Saxony, forcing the German Protestant nobles to form a coalition.
The two sides launched a decisive battle in Leipzig. The German allied forces suffered nearly 30,000 casualties. The Principality of Brandenburg and the Principality of Saxony were annexed. Immediately afterwards, Wang Ji sent his troops south and fought all the way to the Swiss border. The nobles along the way either surrendered or were defeated and executed.
The Duchy of Bavaria and the Habsburg royal family were left untouched by the war.
Next, of course, is the conquest of Bavaria.
The Principality of Bavaria had been Spain's bastard for ten years and had long been isolated by the German nobles. Facing Wang Ji's invasion, it could only seek rescue from the Holy Roman Emperor, but the Holy Roman Emperor himself could not protect himself.
This Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria was Ferdinand I, brother of Charles V. His main focus was on dealing with the Ottomans - France and the Ottomans were seeking to seize Italy, and the two sides even exempted each other from commercial taxes. In addition, Britain
, Netherlands and Wang Ji also joined in to fight against Spain and the Shinra Empire.
Faced with Wang Ji's annexation of the Principality of Bavaria, Ferdinand I remained silent and refused to even verbally condemn him, for fear of angering Wang Ji and going to attack Austria.
To the south, France was also fighting, defeating the Milanese army in one fell swoop.
King Henry II of France also serves as Grand Duke of Milan, but Milan has not been incorporated into France for the time being.
In the north, Russia and Poland were fighting fiercely, with each side winning or losing. Ivan IV urged Wang Ji to help quickly.
Wang Ji soon went to attack Danzig. The main force of Poland was fighting with Russia, and it was difficult to deal with it after being stabbed in the chrysanthemum. The Danzig area was killed by Wang Ji, and he immediately invaded Prussia - the Principality of Prussia at this time was not in later generations.
It is within Germany, but roughly coincides with the Kaliningrad Oblast in later Russia.
The Prussian army made a fuss and withdrew to stop Wang Ji, causing huge conflicts with Poland and Lithuania.
Ivan IV took the opportunity to launch an attack, and the Prussian army fled directly. "Poland-Lithuania" was completely defeated.
Then came the peace talks. "Poland-Lithuania" ceded the Danzig area to Wang Ji, and ceded 30,000 square kilometers of Poltava land to Russia. The Principality of Prussia became independent from the rule of "Poland-Lithuania". Courland and Semili
Sub-principality, independent from the rule of "Poland-Lithuania".
Today, Wang Ji's territory, according to later administrative divisions, includes Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, and the northwestern coast of Poland.
The "United Kingdom of Northern Europe" definitely did not fit Wang Ji's identity. After soliciting opinions from domestic scholars, the country's name was changed to... Germania.
Don't laugh, this is the most legal title, and it also best demonstrates Wang Ji's current territory.
This bad name was first proposed by Caesar, meaning "neighbor", to call the barbarians in the Rhine area. Immediately, the so-called "Germans" began to appear. In a broad sense, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Germans
People, Austrians, Swiss, Dutch, Luxembourgers, Flemish... Even the Anglo-Saxons are strictly speaking Germanic people.
Although Wang Ji occupies such a large territory, the languages are actually very close. The languages of the three Nordic countries come from the same source as German.
So, there is nothing wrong, Wang Ji will be the king of Germania from now on.
Such a vast land naturally shocked Europe, but that was all. Except for the German region, which was pretty good, Northern Europe was cold and had few poor people. Nobles from all countries regarded Wang Ji as the "King of Germany".
Spain lost a large number of colonies and suffered successive defeats in Europe, falling from its hegemony ahead of schedule.
With the support of Wang Ji and Henry II, the seven provinces of the Netherlands declared independence and formally formed the Republic of the Netherlands (including the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and a small amount of northeastern France).
The Three Kings Alliance still exists.
France wanted to expand southward and attempted to annex Switzerland and Genoa.
Wang Ji wanted to expand eastward and encroach on Habsburg and Austria.
The United Kingdom unites the British Isles.
Russia is also forming an alliance with Wang Ji. Wang Ji wants to eat Prussia, and Russia wants to gain access to the Baltic Sea.
France is still allied with the Ottomans, the former wants to seize the Two Sicilies, and the latter wants to encroach on the Habsburgs.