455th Rise and Fall

Wei Daogan had an unstable foundation and was unable to fully cleanse the cabinet headed by Van Bick. He compromised and cautiously pacified the cabinet where all factions coexist: "Only punish the head of the evil Van Bick, do not ask other people."

Except for the first villain Fan Bike's corpse hung at the gate, Fan Bike's punk line is basically intact, and even Wei Daogan had to acquiesce to Fan Bike's eldest son to seek refuge in it. Similar to Fan Bike subordinate forces like Wei Dongsheng, Wei Daogan's retaliation was even more limited, and only the special financial appropriation for Wei He Academy was stopped.

Wei Daogan's compromise brought about the favor of various cabinet factions, and the Luyu Republic smoothly returned to the monarchy system.

Before signing the Jinan Covenant in 1608, Van Beck relied on Mao’s Jiuzhong army to integrate the Henan Province and quickly annexed the Counts of Weihui, Count of Luoyang, Count of Nanyang, Count of Runan and other territories, and completely merged Henan Province into the Republic of Luyu. territory. Wei Daogan hated Van Bick, but he gladly accepted the hard work of van Bick and other industrial nobles, and regarded the old four counts as the inherent territory of the Lu. In order to appease the people in Henan Province, Wei Daogan even privately changed the name of Lu Fan to Luyu United Kingdom, thereby occupying Henan Province permanently.

After dormant for three years, Wei Daogan gradually clarified the details of the cabinet faction, and immediately began to make small moves.

Wei Daogan wanted to build prestige through a hearty victory, and then restore the authority of the monarch. After choosing, Wei Daogan chose Wu Fan as the target of killing chickens and monkeys. During the War between Lu and Wu from 1612 to 1614, the previously infamous Lu Fan navy was able to win against Wu Fan, which shows that the Wu Fan navy was not as powerful as imagined. In the seven years from 1614 to 1621, both the Luyu Republic and the Luyu United Kingdom desperately built warships, and the navy would only be stronger, or could easily crush Wu Fan.

However, how can war be as simple as Wei Daogan imagined.

First of all, an increase in the number of warships does not mean an increase in combat effectiveness. During the drastic transformation of the Luyu Republic back to the Luyu United Kingdom, the excellent naval generals who forced the victory of Wu Fan in the past were so miserable that they were not dismissed from office, but they were deliberately suppressed and restricted by the Lu Fan family, which seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the Lu Fan Navy. . Secondly, after the first war between Lu and Wu, the citizens of Wu Fan regarded it as a great shame. The cabinet desperately trained the navy and studied new tactics, which was obviously a qualitative change compared with the Wu Fan Navy nine years ago.

When the Second War between Lu and Wu broke out, Lu Fan's navy did once have an advantage, but as the war protracted, Wu Fan's new tactical system gradually took effect, and the momentum became stronger and stronger. The stalemate until 1625, Wu Fan won many large-scale naval battles, and even set fire to Qingdao Port, forcing Lu Fan to cede territory and pay compensation.

Not only did Wei Daogan fail to reshape the royal authority, Lu Yu's second war became a stain in his life.

To be honest, the unprepared Lu Fan fights the prepared Wu Fan, and Wu Fan is naturally closer to victory. But the people of Fan Lu would not be so empathetic. If they could win nine years ago, how could they lose after only a year? The answer is definitely not that Wu Fanhai is too strong to challenge, but that Wei Daogan is incompetent, far inferior to Van Beek.

Facing accusations from all over the country, Wei Daogan had to stay dormant.

Of course, Wei Daogan was very unwilling. After losing on the frontal battlefield, he tried to seek diplomacy to win, hoping to unite the royal family with land and sea attacks to completely defeat Wu Fan.

In 1616, Emperor Wei Shun was assassinated and died, and his eldest son Wei Shengming succeeded him as the fifteenth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

Wei Shengming advocated the rule by doing nothing, and generally continued the policy of his father Wei Shun, and the concept of "diplomatic first, military supplemented" carefully restored Wei's prestige. Wei Shengming was particularly cautious in using his troops, and easily refused to send troops to interfere in the internal affairs of the various clan, but Wu Fan may be an exception. In recent years, Fan Wu has been aggressively grabbing the trade share of the old maritime empires such as Yue Fan and Wei Fan, and using naval superiority to block the emerging maritime countries such as Lu Fan, Yan Fan, Wei Fan, and Zhao Fan, gradually becoming a monopoly cancer. Not only Lu Fan, but many vassal states wanted to weaken Wu Fan, and they thought they would not oppose the imperial use of Wu Fan.

Wei Shengming and Wei Daogan secretly planned that until 1629, the royal family assembled 200,000 steps to attack Wu Fan from the land, while the royal navy and Lu Fan's navy launched an attack on Wu Fan from the sea.

Tracing back to the beginning of Wu Fan, it was a nail for the Northern Chinese Fans to weaken the royal family. Fan Wu always kept in mind the reasons for the establishment of the Fan, and he did not hesitate to spend a huge amount of money to build dense bastions on the border between Xia and Wu, called the bastion wall. It is a pity that the times are developing. Facing the new siege tactics developed by the royal family, the Great Wall of Bastion collapsed completely. In just two months, the royal army quickly occupied most of Wu Fan's land, and Wu Fan could only rely on the mountains to defend the state. Fu, Taizhou Fu, Wenzhou Fu and other places.

The collapse of the Great Wall of Bastion seemed like a hurricane sweeping the Wei Xia Empire. The various vassal states sighed in incredible voices and sighed at this battle. The enthusiasm praised Wei Shengming as the master of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

In other words, during the period when Mao Jiuzhong was victorious in the Old Continent, the two anti-Wei encirclement nets were easily torn apart by Mao Jiuzhong, and the performance of the imperial family was difficult to satisfy. At that time, the group discussed fiercely, saying that Wei Xia had been in the country for nearly three hundred years, and it was time to change the dynasty. How do you think that at the critical juncture of the life and death of the Wei Xia dynasty, first Emperor Wei Shun appeased the vassals inside and outside, leading the Wei family and vassals to resist the invasion of Mao Jiuzhong; later, there was such an outstanding heir as Wei Shengming, who was able to prosper the ocean in just two months The imperial Wu Fan was dizzy.

To some extent, Wei Shengming is better than Mao Jiuzhong.

The vassal states in the Central Plains were able to drag down Mao Jiuzhong because of the bastions in the vassal territory. Mao Jiuzhong is invincible in field battles, and he is not afraid of bastion fortresses, but it takes countless time and countless forces to attack a bastion fortress. In terms of deterring Mao Jiuzhong's achievements, the bastion tactics are the first merits deserved. Fan Wu's bastion of the Great Wall line of defense even used the bastion tactics to the extreme, but Mao Jiuzhong's helpless bastion tactics were easily dismantled by the royal army.

The royal family has mastered the new siege technology against the old bastion tactics, and the old bastions in the Weixia Empire became useless buildings.

The royal family is revived!

How to do?

It must be contained.

Overnight, the Central Plains vassals changed their attitudes. Even if they are no longer satisfied with Wu Fan’s monopoly of maritime trade, they cannot allow the royal family to annex Wu Fan, otherwise the powerful royal family will definitely cut the vassal again. In the face of real threats, Wei Shengming’s diplomatic skills were all rendered useless. Fans Yue Fan, Wei Fan, Yan Fan, Zhao Fan, Chu Fan, Ming Fan, Jiao Zhi Fan and other vassal states that once hostile to Wu Fan changed their attitudes and turned around. Support Wu Fan to resist the royal family's cutting of Fan.

The above is the aggressiveness of the land battlefield.

The marine battlefield is now Wu Fan’s territory. Even if there are only three provinces left, the Wu Fan Navy can still beat the Xia Lu United Navy. At the same time, the Lu Fan cabinet was also afraid of royal rejuvenation and opposed the Xia Lu League’s behavior of drinking poison to quench thirst, and gradually evolved into a full-scale conflict between the royal family and the cabinet. In 1631, Wei Daogan died, and his eldest son Wei Shunhui succeeded the king of Lu Fan. The Lu Fan cabinet immediately forced Wei Shunhui to sign a peace treaty with Wu Fan, and made a big turn to support Wu Fan against the imperial family.

Wei Shengming was unwilling to withdraw from Wu Fan and contacted his former enemy Wei Fan in amazement, hoping that Wei Fan could involve Yan, Zhao, Lu and other Fans in the north. Mao Shang, Duke of Wei Fan, was determined to fulfill Mao Jiuzhong's last wish. He immediately took advantage of the rare opportunity of the Xia Wu War to declare war against Wu Fan, but in fact sent troops from the land, eager to take the opportunity to annex Zhao Fan.

What do you think, the result of the Wei-Zhao War shook the Wei-Xia Empire again.

Wei Dalian, the eldest son of Wei Junxi, succeeded as King Zhao Fan in 1625, but did nothing for several years. At this time, he suddenly encountered Mao Shangbin, who was appraised by "the tiger father has no dogs." Wei Dalian pierced the sac with a sharp sword suddenly out of the sheath and broke Wei Bing in Baoding Prefecture. Mao Shang did not even accidentally die from a random gun.

When Mao Shang was captured and killed in World War I, Wei Dalian suddenly became a famous military star in the world, and his neighbor Lu Fan felt threatened.

Although Mao Shang did not die, Wei Fan still had strength. Besides, there are countless neighbors around Zhao Fan, and Wei Dalian didn't dare to rush to expand the results. Wei Dalian calmly asked Wei Fan to sign a peace treaty, deposed the former Mao Jiuzhong to support local forces such as Zhending, Hejian, Baoding and other local forces, and took the opportunity to strengthen centralization and complete control of the Sanfu land. Thailand half completed its grandfather. Wei Shunzong's unfulfilled long-cherished wish.

At the same time, Mao Shang died in his prime, with only one woman under his knees. In terms of the traditional inheritance law of the Wei Xia Empire, the Wei Fan cabinet should find the Mao clan to inherit the Duke of Wei Fan in accordance with the law. However, a noble and powerful official named Jiang Zhongwei took the opportunity to make trouble. "For this reason, ignoring the general inheritance law of Wei Xia's entrusted empire, insisting on electing the three-year-old Mao Shang and orphan Mao Siyu as the new Duke of Wei Fan.

Jiang Zhongwei recommended Mao Siyu to succeed Wei Fan not because he was loyal to Mao Shang, but because he wanted to usurp the country by marriage. As soon as Mao Siyu was promoted to the title of Duke of Wei Fan, Jiang Zhongwei created a momentum for his 4-year-old son Jiang Weimu and Mao Siyu to be engaged, indirectly making his grandson the new lord of Wei Fan. Considering Jiang Zhongwei's selfishness, Wei Fan may not be able to regain the glory of Mao Jiuzhong's era in a short time.

The rise and fall of the various feudal lords often affect the whole body.

Facing the successive rejuvenation of the royal family in the south and Zhao Fan in the north, Lu Fan's cabinet was full of crisis and painstaking efforts to find new allies. Wu Fan, an old enemy, also became Lu Fan's best partner again because of the need to contain the royal family. In 1633, Wu Fan sent a large diplomatic mission to Lu Fan to conduct all-round communication on trade competition and the scope of the Penglai and Kunlun colonies, hoping to establish a stable Lu-Wu alliance from then on.

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Fan Lu Weihe College, Qingdao House.

After Wei Dongsheng's 24 years of hard work, Wei He College has formed a simple education system that includes six years of enrollment (primary school), six years of education (middle school), and irregular colleges (university). The glory of a graduate belongs to himself, and the glory of a group of graduates belongs to his alma mater. As the graduates enter the society successively, Wei He College gradually gained a certain reputation.

Wei He Academy is getting better and better, but Wei Dongsheng's sixth-generation body is getting older and worse.

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