Great time travel

Chapter 177, This year China is rich in emperors ([-])
In March of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Beizhili, Luanzhou (near modern Tangshan), Shifokou
Although in the official establishment of the Ming court, Shifokou is not even a county seat, but a spontaneously formed township, or a private manor of a big landlord.But in fact, the splendor and delicacy of Shifokou has far surpassed most of the ordinary counties on the North China Plain.

As the holy city of Wenxiang Sect, the city of Shifokou itself is not large, with a circumference of only four miles, but the architectural planning is very particular. The building area of ​​Shifokou more than 300 years ago was not large, and its circumference was only four miles.But the scale of the building is very particular.The first is to set up "Qianting (Zhang Tingzi), Houdian (Houtianzi), Donggu (Leiguzhuang, later renamed Leizhuang) and Xilou (Xujialou)" in the four suburbs to receive "tributes" from all directions. believers.In addition, there are huge temple groups: at the foot of the Northeast Mountain in the city is the "Shenzhu Temple", which is commonly called the "Hail Temple" by later generations. A two-meter-high red granite Maitreya Buddha statue is enshrined in the temple. Hence the name.Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, there is a grand temple fair that lasts for a month.There are several tripod jars for the monks in the temple to receive the sesame oil from the pilgrims.Xiguan is Laoye Temple, Niangniang Temple, Land Temple, and Sanguan Temple; Nanguan is Bodhi Temple, Temple of the Eight Immortals, and Chenghuang Temple.Among them, the "Shenzhu Temple" and the Bodhi Temple are the most spectacular, covering an area of ​​[-] mu.These temples are all carved beams and painted buildings, covered with yellow glazed tiles, presenting a luxurious atmosphere of splendor and wealth.

And the "Holy City" Stone Buddha's mouth itself is naturally rigorous in structure and full of style.The surrounding walls are strong and the city gates are majestic, which is no different from any city built by the imperial court.There is only one east-west street in the city, and two archways are built at both ends of the street, with "Master of Qingshan" and "Maitreya reincarnated" inscribed respectively.In the center is the residence of the leader, covering an area of ​​over 24 mu.The inner courtyard has a living room and garden, and the side courtyard has a guard hall and martial arts field.In addition, there is an area of ​​[-] acres, erected with [-] "tortoises and panlong openwork steles", the size of which is similar to that of the emperor's mausoleum, which shows the extraordinary style of Shifokou.

Since Wang Sen, the first leader of the first generation, founded the Wenxiang Sect in the Wanli period, the Wang family has worked hard for decades in the base camp of Shifokou for the illusory dream of an emperor, and its influence is overwhelming. Said to be deeply rooted.Even after experiencing the failure of Xu Hongru's uprising during the Tianqi period, and the setback of the Wenxiang Sect's army in Lianghuai in the past two years, when the leader Wang Ke fled back to Shifokou with the holy relics, relying on the huge amount of money and food accumulated in the city Hundreds of thousands of fanatical congregants have regained considerable strength in just a few months.

At this moment, in the main hall of the Wenxiang Sect at Shifokou, there is a pack of cigarettes, dozens of men in various costumes who serve as immortal masters, incense masters, and Dharma protectors in the Wenxiang Sect. They all knelt and kowtowed to the "sacred object" hanging on the incense table in the lobby, a long fox tail.

And Wang Ke, the leader of Wenxiang Sect, stood upright with a slightly hunched waist recently, wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, sitting on the head, staring at the dozens of people from the northern Zhili prefectures with piercing eyes. The fairy masters, incense masters, and Dharma protectors who came from the county shouted loudly after they finished their salutes: "... since the founding of this religion by our ancestors, it has been difficult for decades! Although Emperor Zhongxing Fulie (Xu Hongru) Yishan Mountain failed, and our leader also lost in Lianghuai last year and moved in, but this is just a temporary hibernation! There are still tens of millions of believers in this religion, and the foundation of Shifokou is still there, which is the foundation of the emperor!

Today, the Ming court is falling apart, the Qing captives are flourishing and declining, the world is in chaos, and the Li people are suffering unspeakably. It is time for my sacred cause to flourish!Therefore, the leader of the sect summoned you all to come to the general forum to discuss the great event of raising troops and restoring the country again! "

Dozens of immortal masters, incense masters, and Dharma protectors all said when they heard about the master's ambitions: "...the master's blessings are equal to the heavens, and the holy religion will be revived! King Ming is reborn."

"...very good! Then the leader of the sect will follow the heavens and respond to the people, and raise troops to rebuild the universe of China, and the homeland is empty..." Seeing that everyone expressed their approval, the leader Wang Ke smiled loudly, and then stood up, "...From now on, The leader of the sect ascends the throne again, as for you and others, you will also have the rewards of princes..."

"...Thank you for the reward, Your Majesty! Your Majesty is the king of Ming who came into the world, and he obeyed the heavens and people. He will surely rebuild the universe of China and rule the world!"

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Therefore, in early March of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Wang Ke, the leader of the Wenxiang sect who escaped from the house arrest of the Qing government from the south and fled all the way back to the main altar of Shifokou in Luanzhou, after waiting in dormancy for several months, raised troops again in Shifokou The emperor announced the establishment of the "Mahayana Kingdom", and quickly awarded the prime minister, the six ministries of the three provinces, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and other official positions, as well as a large number of titles of duke, marquis and earl to "reward" many messy followers.

Immediately afterwards, when it was learned that the leader of the sect, the king, could revolt, hundreds of thousands of Wenxiang sects all over the northern land immediately raised their troops to respond.Zu Dashou, who was in Beijing, was shocked when he heard the news, and quickly dispatched troops to suppress the Wenxiangjiao rebellion in the Gyeonggi area, and then assembled [-] Guanning troops and rushed towards Shifokou in Luanzhou.

It has to be admitted that although Shifokou in Luanzhou is the foundation of Wenxiangjiao's management in the past dynasties, Luanzhou is surrounded by the Great Wall in the north, the sea in the south, Shanhaiguan in the east, and Beijing City in the west, so there is very little room for maneuver.If you can't take Beijing in one go after raising troops, you will be in trouble.

But after so many wars before, His Majesty Wang Ke, who is the leader of Wenxiang and the "Mahayana Emperor", also understands this truth.Therefore, after proclaiming himself emperor, Wang Ke swept away the goods and grain hoarded by Shifokou, and engulfed hundreds of thousands of hardcore believers. Before Zu Dashou sent troops to suppress him, he gave up Shifokou and moved westward in a mighty way. Ji Nan jumped out of the encirclement of the Guan Ning Army, and immediately brought this dead end to life!

——After the collapse of the Qing court, the Guanning Army was confined to the Gyeonggi area for a long time due to internal divisions and containment, and failed to expand rapidly.And Marshal Chen Xin of Dengzhou Town only reached Jinan in the westernmost part, and even failed to secure the entire territory of Shandong.Therefore, after the Qing court withdrew from the north, hundreds of counties in southern Hebei and northern Henan fell into a state of anarchy. The Wenxiangjiao forces took advantage of the situation and established "secret governments" in many counties.As soon as the leader arrived, these "underground parties" immediately turned from darkness to light, and in the blink of an eye, an "Eight Hundred Li Mahayana Kingdom" stretching north to Baoding and south to Kaifeng was established!
After discovering that these Wenxiangjiao monsters actually went to the south of Hebei and revived, Jin Wangzu Dashou, who had been in Luanzhou for nothing, naturally wanted to go south to conquer.However, at this time, the Guan Ning Army had just split, not only was a considerable part of the troops taken away by Wu Xiang, but even many of Zu Dashou's elite descendants confronted the Wu family soldiers in Luoyang in the south of Shanxi, and then deducted the line between Beijing and Shanhaiguan After the left-behind troops, Zu Dashou had very limited mobile troops at hand, so he was forced to gather some miscellaneous new recruits to go south, and finally reached the front line of Zhending and Baoding.

After repelling Zu Dashou's attack, seeing that the Mahayana kingdom had gained a firm foothold for the time being, Wang Ke announced that the capital would be located in Damingfu, Hebei, and renamed "Shenjing", and sent envoys to communicate with Luoyang Wuxiang's "Great Zhou Dynasty". In an attempt to imitate the alliance between Shu and Wu against Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, and to form an alliance against Jin, which was the birthday of the ancestors.And Zhou Wang Wu Xiang, who had just escaped from Beijing, naturally happily agreed, and formed an alliance with Wang Ke.

Therefore, when Southern Zhili fell into the coexistence of five emperors, the "Three Kingdoms in the North" also appeared in the Central Plains in which Zhou Jin took advantage of the three emperors to contend for hegemony.

But the problem is, among these three families, the most powerful leader of the Wenxiang sect, Wang Ke, has become emperor, while Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang are still only the kings of Jin and Zhou. It seems that there is a problem of unbalanced status.Therefore, before signing the covenant with Wang Ke, according to the opinions of a group of civil and military officials, Zhou Wang Wu Xiang quickly set up an altar to sacrifice to heaven, set his capital in Luoyang, and called himself the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.As for Jin Wang Zu Dashou, who is entrenched in Beijing, he suddenly heard that his two opponents have become emperors, but he is still only Jin Wang, which feels a bit cheap.So after sending envoys to communicate with Marshal Huangshi who guarded Liaodong, and found that the "Australian Song Dynasty" didn't mind having more emperors in the Central Plains, he was also very happy to upgrade his title to Emperor Jin and set his capital in Beijing.

Next, it seemed that God still thought that the current "Northern Three Kingdoms" was not lively enough, so he forced another new player in.

——Lin Dan Khan, a descendant of the Mongolian gold family who has been forgotten by everyone for a long time, and Chahar tribe who entrenched in Hetao, also announced in the summer of the seventh year of Chongzhen that he had inherited the position of Emperor Dayuan and was eligible to participate in this competition The game of competing in the Central Plains!
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As the last Mongolian Khan in official history, Lin Dan Khan is also a tragic figure similar to Emperor Chongzhen, and also has an amazing talent for death.The Mongolian Khanate, which was handed over to him by his father, is a bit similar to the early Holy Roman Empire. Although the princes were separated and formed into systems, and the authority of the Khan Court was limited, they relied on the belief in Tibetan Buddhism and the ancestral legal system inherited from the Genghis Khan era. Still barely maintain a uniform appearance.However, under Lin Dan Khan's "religious reform", the Mongolian Khanate, which was barely able to make do before, was soon completely split and collapsed by him!

——In Tibetan Buddhism, there are many schools such as yellow, red, white, and flower.When Lin Dan Khan first ascended the throne, the yellow ♂ religion was prevalent on the Mongolian grasslands, and Lin Dan Khan was also a follower of the yellow ♂ religion at first.But when he was 26 years old, a living Buddha of the Red Sect came up from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. After meeting Lin Dan Khan, he cast a spell, which made the young Lin Dan Khan deeply impressed. He named him a national teacher and received the empowerment. Converted to the Red Sect.Next, Lin Dan Khan squandered huge sums of money to overhaul the Red Sect monastery in an attempt to turn the Red Sect into the state religion of the entire Mongolian grassland!

We all know that the Reformation was bloody.As a result, just like the 30-year war in Europe during the same period, fierce religious wars also broke out on the Mongolian grasslands. This caused the Horqin and Khalkha tribes to defect one after another, and even the Chahar tribe directly under Lindan Khan broke out in rebellion, and for a while it seemed that defeat was imminent.

After one defeat after another, the frightened Lin Danhan no longer dared to compete with the Jurchens, ordered to abandon his ancestral homeland, and led his troops to move westward to the Hetao area to avoid the invasion of the Jurchens cavalry.The Mongolian ministries were very disappointed by this, and they defected one after another, unwilling to continue to follow this wimpy Khan.

According to the original history, after the victory in the battle of Daling River, Huang Taiji, a generation of Tianjiao, will lead the Jurchen Eight Banners to march west to Hetao, and launch the final blow to Lin Dan Khan, who is still alive, and completely destroy the hegemony of the descendants of Genghis Khan.But in this time and space, because the Qing army found an opportunity to enter the customs and conquer the Central Plains after winning the battle of Dalinghe, and no longer cared about the barren Saibei, Lin Danhan escaped invisibly. .

Therefore, after retreating to Hetao and lingering for a few years, because he has not been attacked by the military, Lin Danhan has gradually gained a firm foothold here.But his situation is still very difficult, because the continuous disasters of the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty also affected the Mongolian grasslands, making the Hetao, which was once known as the "South of the Great Wall", snowstormed year after year, crops failed to harvest, and a large number of livestock froze to death. A plague even broke out. At the lowest point, the number of men, women, children and children under Lin Danhan's tent was once reduced to [-] people, and the poverty, hunger and embarrassment were extremely high, and it seemed that he could not survive.

For this reason, Lin Danhan had no choice but to bite the bullet and go south to plunder the Han land in an attempt to solve the food problem of the Chahar tribe.Unexpectedly, the Central Plains fell apart at this time, and the frontier fortresses attacked and killed each other. Facing the Mongols' southward invasion, the resistance that could be organized was extremely weak.Lin Danhan's Chahar Mongolian cavalry easily invaded Ningxia and northern Shaanxi, and occupied a large area south of the Great Wall. He couldn't help being very happy.

Afterwards, Lin Danhan heard that Daming was dead, and that the Jurchen Eight Banners, which he feared so much, were almost finished. The Central Plains had no master, and he was immediately overjoyed, thinking that he was destined by destiny.Therefore, Lin Danhan tied up a few trembling Han Confucian scholars, asked them to give him a persuasion form, and then ascended the throne in Ningxia Mansion to sacrifice to heaven. Kublai Khan's country and so on.

Although Lin Dan Khan's real military strength is very weak, the Zhou and Jin countries who are entangled in the Central Plains can't care about the northwest corner, and around the Hetao, there is no strong enemy that can threaten the Chahar tribe for the time being, so this nondescript Dayuan The empire has survived for the time being.

So far, along with the Daqing, Dajin (Dorgon's separatist forces), Dazhou, Dajin, Mahayana, and Dayuan, a series of new countries were successively established on the old territory of the Ming Empire, belonging to the unification of the Ming Dynasty The era has officially ended, and the Warring States Period has entered the era of warlords competing for hegemony.

At the same time, it seems that the remaining territory of the Ming Dynasty is still too large. In the provinces of southern China this year, a bunch of emerging countries under various banners also suddenly emerged, and they are gnawing at the remnants of the Ming Dynasty. Mountains and waters...