18th century total war

Chapter 401 Lilith Arrives

When New York fell, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty on the East Asian continent across the Pacific Ocean were discussing a major event related to the fate of the Qing Dynasty!

Since the death of the Manchu Emperor, the huge Manchu Empire fell apart in a very short period of time, leaving only half of the country. The surviving top management of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who were deeply in the crisis of national subjugation, implemented the ancestral family law that Nurhaci had established when he conquered the world. Move it out.

Although the upper-class nobles who descended from the Eight Banners of the Undead Corps have never met before, no matter whether the enemy is a human or a ghost, after all, they want to see their real tricks on the battlefield.

After experiencing a series of defeats, the high-level Manchu Qing government naturally abandoned the centralized power system that originally concentrated power on the emperor alone.

Instead, it was changed to the Eight Banners in the early days and the Eight Kings’ political system used in the post-Golden era, and the Eight Kings’ political system quickly grasped the actual power of half of the Qing Dynasty without the constraints of the emperor.

Although the vampire undead corps dealt a fatal blow to the Manchu Qing government, the Manchu Qing Dynasty in this era was not the Kangxi period. Although peasant uprisings still broke out from time to time in the territory, the real strong opponents were swept away, so even if the Manchu Qing government was seriously damaged , also experienced some small chaos.

In the southeastern half of the Far East, there have always been voices against the Qing government, but they are very chaotic and there is no unified voice.

The Zhu Santaizi flag, which was used as a public slogan against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty in the early days of the Manchu Dynasty, is not working well now.

More than 100 years is enough to wear away people's longing for the Ming Dynasty.

Coupled with the rise of the Europa Empire, nationalist revolutionary ideas have been completely suppressed. Even the two major North American countries only dare to spread propaganda secretly. Naturally, the so-called revolutionary ideas will not be introduced to the neglected Far East.

Without the support of the righteousness to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and without the revolutionary ideas that incited the people to be very powerful, and there was external pressure from the cannibal undead army, even if the Manchu Qing government was in a mess, it would still be enough to solve the internal problems.

To put it bluntly, the current Qing government is in a relatively bad state.

Under the core of the power of the Eight Kings, the Qing government completely lost the advantages of the centralized system. If it were not for the excessive pressure from the outside world, the Eight Banners themselves would be able to cause separatism.

But compared to the Manchu and Qing government, the rebels below were even worse.

Needless to say, the rich gentry class who were closer to the front line, no matter how dissatisfied they were with the Manchu Qing government, they would not dare to give up the legal regime in the Far East.

The large gentry in the rear, especially the local chieftains in backward areas such as Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, watched the decline of the Manchu Qing government, and their disobedience naturally became active.

It's a pity that the chieftains who are really high in the sky and far away from the emperor are all armed with tribal weapons, not to mention firearms, and there are not many iron armors that were common in the cold weapon era!

They relied on the advantage of the mountains to become the emperor. The Manchu and Qing government may not have the energy to deal with them, but as long as these chieftains dare to come out of the mountains, the green battalion soldiers who have experienced in the Undead War can easily deal with them.

However, the originally good situation began to gradually collapse after the external arms channels were cut off.

The front line is short of various military supplies, especially ammunition, and the letters of help have never been interrupted!

In fact, the Manchu and Qing government, which owns half of the country in the southeast, is not weak economically, and has enough population to fight a long-term war of attrition with the undead. The problem of insufficient supplies actually lies in the system of the Manchu and Qing government.

This is the so-called Eight Banners ancestral family law!

However, now that the war with the undead is in danger of collapsing, the eight Qing government officials who have the power to discuss politics can no longer sit still.

The most powerful thing about today's Manchu Qing government and the Eight Kings' political agenda is that they supported a little emperor who was less than ten years old to come to power!
It has to be said that the vampire Count Rezas made an outstanding contribution to the return of the Eight Kings' political system. In the capital city, Rezas had almost wiped out all the adult princes who had the right to inherit...

Aixinjueluo's direct lineage has been wiped out!
This is also the fundamental reason why the Eight Kings took power smoothly and the Manchu government hardly encountered internal friction.

The current Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is an obvious puppet, and even the ordinary Eight Banners disciples don't take him seriously.

All government affairs are controlled by the Eight Kings.

Even, the eight governments with the power to discuss politics reached an agreement to carve up the southeastern half of the Qing government as their own exclusive fiefdoms!

The enfeoffment system seemed to be on the rise in the Manchu Qing government.

The only land that has not been enfeoffed is a few provinces close to the front line.

If Resas knew that after he disappeared from the Far East, the current Manchu Qing government would probably start a civil war on its own, I don’t know how it would feel.

After all, the current eight regimes of the Manchu Qing government are fundamentally different from the eight kings' deliberations before the Eight Banners entered the customs.

At that time, the Eight Banners had a small population and weak strength, and they fought the world with a reckless spirit that was not afraid of death, so they naturally had to unite as one.

But the current Manchu Qing government has been domineering for several generations, and has long lost its sense of crisis. Once they lose the external threat of the Undead Corps, there is a very high probability that they will fight a civil war for their own power!
After all, these eight countries already have fiefdoms, populations, and the basis for launching civil wars.

Of course, this time the Eight Kings' discussion is not to discuss their internal conflicts. If they are defeated by the undead, all the fiefdoms of the eight gods will fall!
"We can no longer use the official factory system to produce weapons and ammunition, and the production quantity of the official factory can't make up for the gap at the front line.

Without outside sources of munitions, we must free our own productive forces as much as possible.

We have already mastered the technology of flintlock and lead bullets, and even the modification of Mini rifles and the production of matching ammunition are no problem.

What we are lacking now is production capacity! "

"No, our Bannermen are a minority, if all arms production restrictions are lifted, who can guarantee that those arms will not flow into the hands of rebels?
We have never dealt with the unruly chieftains in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi!
Their desire for firearms is stronger than ours, but not weaker! "

As soon as these words came out, they immediately got the approval of the other three ****.

The so-called ancestral family laws are actually excuses. The reason why they are really unwilling to let go is that they are worried that the uncontrolled arms trade will flow into the hands of those chieftains!

Those who want to let go of firearms production officials, so that private workshops can also have the power to produce arms ****, the fiefdoms are all in wealthy but small provinces.

Those who oppose the liberalization of firearms control are naturally the fiefdom owners of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian and other economically backward provinces!
Their objection was to prevent firearms from circulating on a large scale in the hands of civilian rebels. In fact, it was for their own power.

After all, if the control over the production of firearms is fully liberalized, the country with a developed economy but a small territory will have a huge advantage.

As for those economically backward areas, although the territory is large, the rebels and chieftains within the territory are mainly concentrated in them, and the increase in productivity among the people will not be much if the control is relaxed...

It's just that the fiefdoms of the eight kingdoms were settled when the Eight Kings discussed politics and took control of the power. Everyone has become accustomed to their own territories, and it is impossible to make a lot of adjustments to the fiefdoms.

Balancing the interests of the fiefdoms of the eight countries is a very time-consuming and labor-intensive task!
In the early stage of facing the undead army, the Qing government suffered from unfavorable operations and dispersed its troops, which led to the fall of the entire north. This was closely related to the power struggle of the Eight Kings.

In order to prevent other kings from surpassing themselves in terms of military power, the eight princes have long established a system of mutual supervision. If the fief wants to make small moves, it will inevitably offend other princes.

Under the premise that the crisis of the undead corps is not resolved, it is difficult for them to merge and annex each other vertically and horizontally.

Even if the seven kings negotiated in private and prepared to carve up the last king, that king would still be able to poke a huge hole before he died, and use the undead army to drag everyone to the funeral.

Most of the fragile balance among the eight powerful princes relied on the deterrent power of the undead corps.

However, the Eight Kings' Administration is obviously a regime with strong defense and insufficient offense. In order to protect themselves, everyone will naturally contribute their efforts and go all out when defending against the enemy.

But if the lost ground is regained, the quarrel at the eight kings' political meeting alone will hardly produce a result...

Even the provinces on the front line are under the joint administration of the eight kings!
The Qing government, which controls half of the country, lacks the supply of weapons and ammunition. The main reason is the Qing government's own constraints, and there is no way to explode the productivity of the entire southeastern half.

"Without enough weapons and ammunition, we simply cannot guarantee the battle on the front line. Once the Undead Corps invades a densely populated area, the number of troops will skyrocket in an instant, and our efforts over the years will be in vain!
When the time comes, who can stop the snowballing undead army? "

"At the time of life and death, it is not impossible to change the family law of the ancestors, but the economic level of your fiefdoms is too different. If you let go of all controls, someone will suffer. So should this fiefdom be changed?"

"The fiefdom of the Eight Kings has been determined for a long time, how can it be changed at will?"

"Hehe, if it doesn't change, then the issue of deregulation doesn't need to be brought up.

Don't want to give anything but still want to get benefits, how can there be such a good thing in the world? "

The **** present are not stupid and pedantic people. They also know that after the front line collapses like this, they are not far from the end of the calf.

So he directly expressed his request at the political meeting.

Driven by interests, the four countries with large territories but less developed economies quickly formed an alliance.

The economy determines social productivity. The eight **** may not understand economics, but they are still very clear about the output of their own fiefdom.

Fierce quarrels soon broke out at the Eight Kings' Political Council.

This is not the first time this question has been raised, but under the pressure of the undead corps, the efficiency of solving the problem has been stimulated.

When the gangsters who occupy the economically developed provinces sensed each other's determination, they had no choice but to choose to compromise.

You can't just watch the situation on the front line continue to collapse, let the undead army come in all the way!
What's more, compared with economically backward provinces such as Yunnan and Guizhou, the economically prosperous provinces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are closer to the front-line provinces!

If the front line collapses, they will definitely die faster than those who oppose it.

Of course, compromise does not mean complete concessions, and the best solution is naturally fief replacement.

Even if it is an enclave, he will not hesitate.

As a result, after the meeting, the eight princes' fiefdoms, which were originally clearly defined, began to become one among you and one among me, with each **** having at least two enclaves!

Fortunately, everyone was within the same system of the Manchu and Qing government, so the enclave problem was not unsolvable.

Anyway, it won't be the turn of the civil war to break out for a while, the enclave has plenty of time to operate, and the emergence of the enclave can also be better penetrated.

However, this situation of fiefdoms playing nesting dolls with each other has undoubtedly increased the contradictions between the eight lords. However, under the pressure of life and death, these political contradictions have been temporarily suppressed.

After solving the core power distribution issues of the Eight Countries, the so-called ancestral family laws that prevented the Qing government from releasing social productivity, and the problem of preventing the large-scale circulation of firearms among the people, are no longer problems.

An excuse is an excuse after all, and now a large number of Han people and gentry under the Qing government have become accustomed to the sky above their heads supported by the Qing government, and it is too difficult to set off a large-scale rebellion.

The pressure brought by the Undead Corps forced the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers to take up arms again and go to the front line for training. The corrupted Eight Banners Soldiers were constantly transforming under the huge casualties.

Regardless of whether they can catch up with the combat effectiveness of their ancestors before they entered the customs, at least they are much stronger than the two-gun old soldiers in the late Qing Dynasty.

The Eight Kings' discussion of government affairs has divided up half of the interests of the country. Naturally, the eight powerful princes will not allow Hanchen regiments to appear under their command. The shrinking of the territory has actually strengthened the control of the banner people.

However, what they didn't know was that Resas was bringing his legion to welcome his ancestor Lilith on the ruins of the original capital!
From the pitch-black alien portal, a luxurious princess floated out delicately carried by a group of vampire counts.

The high-ranking vampire counts fanned the huge human-shaped bat wings behind them and carefully prevented the entire sedan platform from shaking at all.

Under the oppression of vampire blood, Lilith is their god, and the vampires dare not even have the thought of resistance!
Due to resource constraints, no vampire with ordinary combat power is eligible to follow, and the minimum strength to come to another world is the strength of a vampire baron!
In addition, they are all high-level undead soldiers with strong hand-to-hand combat abilities.

Rezas had already sent the news in advance. Knowing that the new world did not have any magical energy, Lilith naturally had to give priority to bringing over the high-level undead who relied on physical combat.

The huge frost dragon soared in the sky, following Queen Lilith's carriage like a loyal guard.

Groups of gargoyles that seemed to be trying to cover up the sun flew out of the alien portal in seemingly endless waves!
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