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Chapter 692: Chasing in the Central Plains (One Hundred and Seven)
Summer of Republic 480 (690)
The hot summer is coming, but the situation in the Central Plains makes those who join the game break out in cold sweat.

Half a month ago, the Queen of Heaven ascended the throne and proclaimed herself emperor, changing the name of the country to "Zhou". The Tang Dynasty, which had been founded for 72 years... died!
Wu Zhao ignored everyone's opposition, forcibly ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and also changed the country's title, which had a huge impact.

More and more Li and Tang clans secretly contacted Yan, Turk, and Zhou in an attempt to use the help of enemy countries to help them restore the country of the Tang Dynasty.

Faced with this great opportunity, the surrounding countries of the Tang Empire would naturally not miss it. Under the banner of "anti-Zhou and Tang Dynasty", they took advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains to plunder wantonly.

"We are not invading the Central Plains, but we are counterattacking the Tang Dynasty and helping the Tang Dynasty restore the country and the country!"

After Yan Ling/Wanyan Ling captured a county town in Dengzhou, he said this to the nobles in the city.

By carrying the banner of "Reverse Zhou Dynasty and Revive Tang Dynasty", the resistance of the Central Plains people can be reduced, thus increasing the efficiency of looting.

The Yan army captured the city in Dengzhou. Some cities heard that the Yan army was coming to "return to the Tang Dynasty", so they simply opened their city gates to welcome friendly troops.

Faced with the city gate that was opened on his own initiative, Yan Ling was not polite and evacuated the entire city and dug the graves around the city.

Although during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, all the tombs in Shandong were dug up by Yan Guo.

However, after decades of accumulation in the Tang Dynasty, many new Tang Dynasty vassals and nobles were buried in Shandong, which is worthy of extensive digging.

"Returning Zhou Dynasty and restoring Tang Dynasty is just a slogan. Just like Amitabha, taking the opportunity to burn, kill and loot is the real purpose."

Although it was just a slogan, there were also some scholars with strong orthodox ideas who welcomed the Yan army who used the slogan of countering the Zhou Dynasty and restoring the Tang Dynasty.

They lived in the period when the Tang Dynasty was powerful, and the Tang Dynasty was the orthodoxy in their minds. Now that the Demon Queen usurped the throne, they were all heartbroken. When they heard that the Yan army was willing to save China and revive the Tang Dynasty, they all ate the pulp from the pot to welcome the king.

"There will be no China after the fall of Jin, and there will be no China after the Demon Emperor (Wu Zetian)!"

"The friends of the Yan State are benefactors who come to help us, the Tang Dynasty, revive Chinese civilization!"

"There is no real Chinese culture in the Central Plains anymore. The real Chinese culture was inherited by the Yan State."

"The reason why the Yan State does not recognize the Demon Emperor as the orthodoxy of China is actually because the Yan State admires our great Tang Dynasty. They sincerely want to help me, China, expel the Demon Queen and restore the Tang Dynasty!"

Some Shandong emperors and Han scholars who had received money from the Yan State vigorously advocated the orthodox theory of the Yan State's inheritance, and claimed that the reason why the Yan State was hostile to the Central Plains was because the Central Plains was usurped by the Demon Queen, and that the Yan State came to help the Central Plains people. China is the real savior of the Central Plains people.

The Shandong emperor and Han scholars who said these words certainly knew that even during the Tang Dynasty, Yan State and the Central Plains were still hostile, and they even fought wars with the Tang Dynasty.

So what they said was that Yan State was hostile to Wu Zhao in order to help China restore the orthodoxy of Li and Tang Dynasties. It was purely out of self-interest and extra money to do things.

Whether Yan State and the Central Plains are enemies or friends, it has nothing to do with whether they are orthodox or not. What really matters is national interests.

Of course, this did not prevent the Shandong scholars who had received money from the Yan State from vigorously advocating that the Yan State was hostile to the Central Plains because of its disobedience to the Demon Queen, a barbarian who usurped the throne.So, on the one hand, scholars from the Imperial and Han Dynasties in the Central Plains advocated that the Yan State came to help China, and persuaded the cities in Shandong to open their city gates to welcome Yan State's friendly troops into the city. On the other hand, after the Yan army entered the city, they showed no mercy at all, let alone care. If you want to restore Chinese orthodoxy, everything that can be evacuated will be evacuated by you. Even the clan ancestral halls will be forcibly demolished and moved away.

In order to better oppose the Demon Queen, some scholar Hei Wuzhao made up a fictional identity of a descendant of the Xianbei people, and then claimed:

"The national government is controlled by the old and young of Xianbei, headed by the Demon Queen. Now it is no longer the Tang Dynasty, but the Later Wei (Later Xianbei Wei State)."

"The State of Yan is the orthodox successor of China. We should welcome the Yan army into the city. They will help us expel Xianbei and restore China!"

Under such calls, more and more cities in the Central Plains took the initiative to open their city gates and welcome the Yan army into the city.

Then, all the people in the city were captured by the Yan army, turned into slaves for pioneering wasteland, and sold to the black soil plantations in the Northeast.

"When there is civil strife in the Central Plains and the strength is not as good as ours, there will naturally be great scholars from the Central Plains who take the initiative to argue for us and find ways to make us orthodox in China."

For the army's success in the Central Plains, the Emperor of the Republic, Emperor Yu, was very happy. He had endured it for many years and could be regarded as turning over.

Now, it was finally Yan's turn to scold the Central Plains for being backward, ignorant, ignorant, and barbarian.

Therefore, in Dengzhou, some Central Plains scholars also began to reflect. They believed that the Central Plains monarchy may actually be more backward than the parliamentary republic of Yan State. In fact, the system of Yan State is a more advanced system, and the Central Plains should learn from Yan State. , instead of Yan Guo learning from the Central Plains.

However, the good times did not last long, and the civil strife in the Central Plains soon ended.

The rebels of Li Tang's clan were brutally suppressed by the Demon Emperor. They went too deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains. Before Yan Ling could evacuate the Central Plains, he was also surrounded by the Central Plains army. In the end, he was defeated and fled.

With the news that Yan's army was defeated and Yan Ling fled, those Central Plains scholars who advocated that Yan was the orthodoxy of China consciously shut their mouths, and some people began to admit that Wu Zhao's regime was the orthodoxy of China.

Afterwards, the scholars of Yan State began to reflect again. They believed that, perhaps, the Central Plains’ autocratic monarchy is the truly advanced system, which is more advanced than the Republic’s parliamentary republic. country study.

Regarding this situation, Di Yu could only sigh.

"It seems that the centipede insect is dead but not stiff. Now, it is not the time for us to completely overthrow the Central Plains. There is still a big gap in strength, so it is not enough for more Central Plains people to take the initiative to defend our Yan country."

The difference from those scholars is that Di Yu does not think anyone is more advanced than the other. In his view, the parliamentary republic of the Republic and the enlightened monarchy of the Central Plains have their own advantages and disadvantages, but the development direction is different. They just took different paths. There is no superiority or inferiority between the two.

He is a pragmatist. As long as it can enhance the national strength of the Republic, it doesn't matter what the specific system is.

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We are still arguing about what kind of system is more suitable for the Song Dynasty. However, in the empire where the sun never sets hundreds of years ago, Emperor Yu had already seen it clearly. He never argued about it, but just silently developed the empire that never set. The national power of the fallen empire. ——"General History of the World Song Dynasty Li Qingzhao"

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