Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 649 The Republic and the Emperor ([-])

One month later

Spring of the Ninth Year of Yan State 430 (649)
Late night
Yan Palace
Yan Junming looked at one battle report after another in his hand, his hands were trembling.

Defeated!Defeated!Still defeated!

Since the disastrous defeat in the Liaobei Plain, Yan State, which lost Tiefutu, had to temporarily recruit recruits to fight, but was quickly defeated by the rebels.

The common people are not willing to fight for the parliament. They often surrender to the opponent as soon as they see the Hongyan army.

The aristocrats swept the snow before their doors, all wanting to keep their fiefdoms, the guilds were not affected at all, and they were still self-serving to start trade with Tianzhu, and even because of the war, they didn't have to pay taxes to the Yan Kingdom court.

He begged the nobles and guilds to send troops to help him, but he only received pitifully little help. He recruited [-] new soldiers and stood firm in Yandu, preparing to wait for the nobles to form a coalition outside to come to the rescue.

At the same time, Yanming also asked for help from his vassal brothers, and ordered Fuyu, Jurchen, Shiwei and other countries to lead troops to suppress the rebellion.

However, under the temptation of the slogan "the tiller has his land", and the Tiefutu was defeated by the rebels with firearms, the common people joined the rebels one after another, just to divide the land after the war.

"Guilt against oneself!"

"Abolish corvee and poll tax!"

"Cancel the national policy of land reclamation!"

"As long as the country and the country can be preserved, there is no system that cannot be changed!"

Yan Ming promulgated many laws and regulations again and again, and did not even intend to pass the parliamentary approval, and the parliamentary meeting could no longer be held normally.

However, everything came too late.

Xindu
city ​​gate

The common people encouraged the recruits in the capital, opened the city gates, and took the initiative to welcome the rebels into the city.

"From today onwards, everyone does not need to pay poll tax or submit to corvee. All slaves will be free again!"

"Everyone redistributes the land, the tiller will have the land, and everyone can live comfortably!"

When the Hongyan army took control of Yandu, they immediately promulgated reform laws, searched for money in the city, and then distributed it to the common people.

It also carried out the measurement of the acres of the fields, and distributed the land to the landless people.

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

The people of Yandu celebrated that they finally got the Mingjun they wanted, and they no longer had to endure the exploitation of the noble council.

Inside Yan Palace, Yan Ming knew that the situation was over.

"I can't be a monarch who surrenders, I would rather die than surrender to a thief!"

Opening a pack of arsenic, Yan Ming hesitated for a moment, and finally swallowed it.

The ruler was overthrown, and the people ushered in salvation?

Things don't seem to be that simple.

After the rebel army invaded Yandu, in order to win the hearts of the people, they did not dare to do anything wrong.

However, as more and more adherents came, all kinds of mixed people began to join the rebel army.

The beating, smashing, looting and burning began to intensify, and the fire inside the rebel army was also very intense.

In the past, everyone had the aristocratic council and a common enemy, and the rebel armies from all walks of life could temporarily unite.

As the noble council was forcibly disbanded and Yan Junming committed suicide by taking poison, the rebels began to fight among themselves.

"Heavenly Father killed Brother Heavenly Brother, and the country will be blocked!"

"All things are born to support people, and people have nothing to repay the sky, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!"

"Eat his mother, drink his mother, no food when Chuang Wang comes! No corvee, no tax, everyone has land to plant!"

Those who believe in the way of swan geese, those who don't believe in the way of swan geese, those who are idealistic, those who simply want to burn, kill and loot, those who want to rely on dividing land and land to conquer the country, those who want to separate one side in troubled times, and so on and so on.

Yang Xiuqing and others practiced theocratic rule in Xindu, Li Zicheng led the rebel army to attack the city, and Zhang Xianzhong led his godsons to massacre everywhere.

There are all kinds of people and forces.

While the peasant rebel army was fighting among themselves, some relatively powerful nobles began to unite with the guilds to encircle and suppress the rebel army.

In the land of Yan Kingdom, killings are everywhere.

The old order has been destroyed, the new order has not yet been established, and there is chaos.

another year later
The new capital has become a ghost town, and forces from all sides are fighting repeatedly. Whenever a force invades the new capital, it will burn, kill and loot the capital to boost morale.

What is even more desperate is that Li Zhi, the new emperor of the Central Plains, took the opportunity to attack Yan.

The garrison of Shanhaiguan has already joined different forces and fought civil wars with each other. The navy has also joined different noble forces and is fighting for the throne. No one is guarding against the enemies of the Central Plains.

A few months ago, Li Shimin, the emperor of the Central Plains, passed away suddenly after eating Tianzhu oil for several months.

Emperor Li Shimin died, and Prince Li Zhi came to the throne.

Li Zhi, who had just ascended the throne, even had no time to deal with the powerful officials in the Tang Dynasty, and before he could consolidate the throne, he immediately launched an attack on the Yan Kingdom.

"The opportunity is too late to come again. Once the civil war in Yan is over, we in the Central Plains want to conquer the country of Yan, so we have to wait until the year of the monkey?"

Hundreds of thousands of Tang troops came from land and sea, wanting to wipe out Yan State completely.

Due to the sudden incident, the Tang army was not well prepared, did not carry enough food and grass, and did not have enough spare weapons and arrows. It was entirely to take advantage of the internal turmoil in Yan to attack Yan State temporarily.

But at this moment, the country of Yan is still in chaos.

Rebels, bandits, nobles, guilds, crusaders, all kinds of forces are fighting each other.

The rebel army was fighting with the rebel army, the nobles were fighting with the nobles, the rebel army and the nobles were fighting each other, Jurchen and other vassal states also burned, killed and looted in the territory of Yan State, and the Tang Dynasty took the opportunity to invade.

The first to fail was the peasant uprising armies from all walks of life. They were not united at all, and were jointly suppressed by the Tang Empire and the nobles of the Yan Kingdom.

"Unite the captives and defeat the bandits!"

"Unite the Tang captives and suppress the internal bandits. If you fight against the outside world, you must first secure the inside!"

another three months later

The Tang army captured the new capital and established the Liaodong Protectorate, including the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula.

spice islands
Star City

"Yan Kingdom needs an emperor, an emperor who can save the country."

"We need a leader who can unite people and lead us to end the civil war and expel the foreign enemy!"

When the country was in peril, the nobles finally stopped wrangling. In order to survive, all the nobles temporarily reached a consensus, that is, they need to elect a leader, a centralized leader, to lead them to defeat the enemy.

Compared with the wars in the mainland, the Spice Islands were harmonious, with only small-scale sporadic uprisings, and they were all suppressed by the guilds.

Especially the Taoyuan Guild was the most active in suppressing the uprising, therefore, the nobles of Yan Kingdom were full of favorability for the Taoyuan Guild.

Under the recommendation of everyone, Yanming's only bloodline, Princess Zhen, became the empress of the empire.

In order to compete with the Tang Empire for orthodoxy, the nobles suggested that Yanzhen become emperor, and Yanzhen agreed.

"I need to control the military power, and I don't want to be commanded by leapfrogging on the battlefield!"

"I need more power to facilitate the transfer of personnel on the battlefield, otherwise, the enemy cannot be defeated."

The queen made her request.

If it was in the past, such a request would only be scolded bloody by the nobles, and the one who dared to make such a request would be Wang Ting Second.

But now, when the country is in peril, what can't be done to such a request?
"Your request can be satisfied, I hope you can lead everyone to save this country." The nobles promised Queen Jane that they would give up more power and make Queen Jane a real autocratic queen.

After Empress Jane came to the throne, the first thing she did was to announce the release of all slaves in the Spice Islands.

This aroused the dissatisfaction of the nobles: "Are you going to mess around?"

"You said that you should fully support me and not interfere with my decision-making casually, right?" The queen explained: "How long are we going to fight internally? Will everyone be satisfied if the foundation of ancestor Kang is destroyed?" ?”

In the end, the Queen's "Emancipation of Slaves" was promulgated.

"In the empire, there is no longer corvée, no more poll tax, no matter men, women, old or young, everyone can be allocated [-] acres of land, citizens can manage themselves, the empire will not send officials to force public opinion, as long as they are willing to pay Tax-paying, law-abiding citizens of the Empire."

The queen does not intend to give all the land of the nobles and guilds to the common people.

Because she knows that this is unrealistic, after more than ten years of polishing, she has become more mature than before.

Fifty acres per person is enough for the common people to support their families, and the nobles and guilds can still retain a large amount of land.

This is a mutual concession decision. The nobles and the guilds spit out part of the benefits and share them with the people at the bottom, and the people at the bottom must continue to support the privileges of the nobles and the guilds.

The ruling class shares a piece of the pie, and the ruled support the rule of the ruling class, which is a win-win situation.

A large number of slaves were released, and they became the queen's stable source of troops, providing a powerful force for the empire to suppress rebellions and expel foreign enemies.

(End of this chapter)