Chapter 1104: Emperor Wuding
Off the coast of Guangzhou, the warships of the Wei and Ming armies fought fiercely, and the Wei warships suffered heavy losses, and the scarred warships fled from the battlefield staggeringly, dragging their scarred bodies into the mouth of the Pearl River and heading for the repair shipyard.
Craftsmen were busy repairing warships day and night, and many merchant ships were also requisitioned to participate in the war.
This naval battle lasted for a long time, and after half a month, the losses of the Wei army's naval division had exceeded thirty percent, and the Ming army also suffered heavy casualties, to the limit.
At this time, the huge losses made Gao Yihuan and the generals of the Wei army shake.
Liang Yizhang was originally the main battle faction, but he could see that the naval division built by the Wei State in four years was in danger of being wiped out, so he suggested that Gao Yihuan make a truce, keep the warships and the officers and soldiers of the naval division, and wait a few years to fight again.
Gao Yihuan was extremely reluctant in his heart, but he had to admit that the Nanming Water Division was stronger than the Wei Army's Water Division.
Just when Gao Yihuan hesitated, Nanming was also shaken internally, Zheng Chenggong suffered equally heavy losses, and many generals and smugglers who accompanied the army on the expedition expressed their unwillingness to fight again.
Although the losses of the Ming army were smaller than those of the Wei army, the loss of one of the Ming army was the loss of one solid, but the damaged ships of the Wei army could be repaired and rejoined the battlefield, and the shipyard was still building warships.
Now that the Ming army has an advantage on the surface, in the long run, it will continue to be consumed, and the result can only be defeated.
In late October, the last and most fierce naval battle broke out at the mouth of the Pearl River, Shi Lang, the general of the Wei army, was killed by Zheng Sen, and the flagship Jinghai was sunk in the waters near Lantau Island, and the Wei army suffered heavy losses.
It is strange that after this battle, the Ming army did not stop at the mouth of the Pearl River, and left the sea off Guangzhou directly and returned to Qiongzhou and Taiwan.
This was a lose-lose battle, and the Wei army failed to defeat the Ming army, so that Gao Yihuan had to accept that the Great Wei could not eliminate the reality of the Southern Ming in a short period of time.
For the Ming army, although their losses were small, after returning to full strength, they did not achieve the strategic goal of completely destroying the Wei naval division, and failed to reverse the general trend between the Ming and Wei, in fact, they had already failed.
After the Battle off the coast of Guangzhou, two years later, the Wei army once again gathered forces to attack Qiongzhou Island.
This time, the Wei army successfully landed in Qiongzhou, because the main force of the Ming army had already evacuated Qiongdao, so the Wei army occupied Qiongzhou in only three months.
In the same year, a large-scale naval battle broke out again between the Wei and Ming armies in Penghu, in which the Wei general Yang Geng was killed and the Ming general Gan Hui was killed.
Zheng Chenggong was furious and ordered the fleet to attack everywhere to cut off the Wei maritime trade routes, and the Wei merchant ships were sacked by pirates, and the maritime trade losses were extremely heavy.
Chang'an City, in the Heavenly Pavilion, Gao Yihuan stood in front of the map with his hands in his hands, staring at a map of all countries in a daze.
"Your Majesty, someone brought it!" Fang Jiayu saluted.
There was a man beside him, dressed in prison uniforms, with a mantle, and his face was pale because he had not seen sunlight for a long time.
Gao Yihuan turned around, looked at the comer, sighed heavily, and said to the comer, "Yiyou! You don't blame the second brother, right? ”
The person who came was Gao Yiyi, who had been imprisoned for six years in Xuanyiwei's edict.
Gao Yiqi burst into tears, looked at each other and smiled, "The second brother also has the hardships of the second brother, and what the second brother said has been done!" ”
Gao Xinghao was killed, Gao Yicheng was driven to Yunnan by him, and Gao Yihuan had no friends.
At this time, he looked at Gao Yiyan, and his face also smiled, it was really a catastrophe The Bo brothers are here, and they meet with a smile and a grudge.
Gao Yihuan asked, "You understand me, are you willing to do something by my side?" ”
Gao Yiyan shook his head, "The second brother has realized his ambition, and I am far away from the second brother, but I also have persistence in my heart, and I hope that Your Majesty will fulfill it." ”
Gao Yihuan stared at him for a long time, and finally sighed, turned around again, and said half-loudly: "Okay! I will fulfill you, let you go to Luzon, and tell Zhu Cihong and Zheng Sen that I am willing to negotiate peace with them. ”
In the eighth year of Wuding, the years-long dispute between the Ming and Wei dynasties finally came to an end.
Liang Yizhang, a scholar of Wei University, and Wang Yan, a scholar of Nanming University, signed the "Ming-Wei Peace Treaty" with Penghu, and the two sides shelved the disputes over Central Plains orthodoxy, Penghu, and Taiwan, and reached a peace consensus.
Gao Yihuan returned the captive Zhu Cihong's family, the prince and concubine of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and many vassal kings, and at the same time opened the port to allow the Southern Ming merchant ships to trade on the mainland, while the Southern Ming did not attack the coastal areas of the Great Wei Dynasty, ensuring the smooth flow of maritime trade routes, and at the same time allowing the Great Wei merchants to trade in the South Seas.
After the signing of the treaty, the people of the two countries rejoiced, and a large number of Nanming merchant ships flocked to the coast to buy goods and transport them to Japan, India, Dashi and other regions, and the industry and commerce in Jiangnan were vigorously developed.
The development of industry and commerce filled the treasury of the Great Wei Dynasty, and Gao Yihuan immediately issued an edict to further implement reforms.
In terms of education, he promoted compulsory primary education, ordered the establishment of primary schools in all counties, the establishment of secondary schools in prefectures, the establishment of higher education halls in provincial capitals, and the conversion of all academies in Beijing into university halls, and encouraged the private sector to set up private schools, translate books from various countries, and reward scientific works and inventions.
In terms of justice, Gao Yihuan formulated a set of constitutions based on the situation of his ancestors, and at the same time recompiled the Ming Dynasty laws and decrees to subdivide the law.
In terms of internal affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Communications, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce were added, the Imperial Bank was established, the currency was further unified, the silver standard system was established, and the development of industry and commerce was promoted.
At the same time, Gao Yihuan also sent envoys to various countries to finance merchants to sail around the world.
In the forty years of Wuding, the Great Wei Empire after decades of recuperation, the population increased exponentially, and the emergence of steam engines and railways made the Wei Empire extremely strong, and Gao Yihuan was finally respected as the Emperor of Wuding.
In the autumn of this year, Gao Yihuan, the 60-year-old Emperor of Great Wei, surrounded by hundreds of officials, came to the foot of Mount Tai in Yanzhou Mansion again to carry out his second Zen sealing.
In addition to the courtiers of the Wei State, there were also envoys from the vassal states, as well as the Zhou State, the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Mughals, the Ottomans, the Japanese, the Eastern Liao, the English Kingdom, the Dongzhou State and other countries who lived in the Great Wei.
In this east, the Liao Kingdom was a regime in Kyushu and Shikoku in southern Japan.
The origin of Dongzhou is more legendary, Gao Yihuan funded merchants to sail to the east and west, and after a merchant to the east arrived at a continent in the east, he was surprised to find that a country actually wrote Chinese characters and communicated without hindrance, but the people of this country were very wary of his arrival.
The merchant was imprisoned by Dongzhou State for three years, and Dongzhou State constantly sent people to interrogate him about the situation in the Central Plains, so that the merchant gradually figured out that Dongzhou State was actually a country established by the remnants of the Qing army decades ago.
At this time, Dongzhou was at war with the English and the French, and was in a weak position, and was in danger of destroying the country, and the merchants suggested that they ask for help from the Great Wei, and the Dongzhou State thought twice and sent an envoy to the Great Wei with the merchants, and claimed the vassal to the Wei State, in exchange for the support of the Wei State.
In 1690, on October 15 of the 40th year of Wuding, the mighty sacrificial team gathered at the foot of Mount Tai, Gao Yihuan climbed Mount Tai again after 40 years, and sealed the Zen sacrifice to the sky.
The elderly Gao Yihuan stood on the top of Mount Tai, "I inherit the will of heaven, dominate the world, quell the war, work hard for 40 years, and finally make China rejuvenated, Li Shu is peaceful, the four seas surrender, all countries come to the dynasty, worthy of the sky~"
In the 40th year of Wuding, on October 20, Wei Taizu Gao Yihuan died of illness on the way back to Chang'an, and said to his eldest son Gao Jianxing before his death: "I have been ruling the world for decades, and I have worked hard to build a strong country. Today, Dawei stands on the top of the world, and I am comforted, but there is only one thing that I still remember. Although I am the overlord of the land, I have not been able to command the sea. I prepared an ironclad warship for you, and after the collapse of the war, you will recover Taiwan. ”
After the collapse of Gao Yihuan, the crown prince Gao Jianxing did not mourn, and rushed back to Chang'an overnight to take the throne, and the following year Wei Taizong was angry that Nanming had supported his eldest son Gao Jianye and interfered in the internal affairs of the Great Wei, and suddenly became chaotic and started a war against Nanming.
In the course of a few decades, while the Great Wei Dynasty was developing, two powerful states in East Asia, the Southern Ming and the Great Zhou, as well as several powerful small states, emerged.
Gao Jianxing launched a war against the Southern Ming Dynasty, which involved the Great Zhou Kingdom, Japan, Eastern Liao and other countries, and the two sides were divided into two camps, and a big battle ended in the victory of the Great Wei.
The war in East Asia gave the Western countries the opportunity to rise, in the face of the rising West, Wei Taizong Anping 20 years, Wei, Zhou, Ming, Eastern Liao, Japan, Dongzhou formed an alliance, and the Western countries started a war, Taizong 30 years, the alliance won the victory, carved up the whole world.
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