The outcome of the Anglo-Qing War that took place from 527 to 528 is undoubted. This war only proves once again that in the era when rifles, artillery, and machine guns dominate the battlefield, it is a matter of who can mobilize the most cannon fodder and go to the battlefield one after another. Both the nation-state and the civil state (including the pseudo-citizen state) are far more capable in this regard than the big states built by the conquerors of the few. No matter how hard those outnumbered banner men work hard.

Speaking from the heart, the Great Qing Kingdom of Europa in this time and space is much stronger than the Great Qing Kingdom of China in history in all aspects.

Although their bannermen are also corrupt, they are broad-minded, full of self-confidence, and have the courage to go abroad to study in the most powerful and advanced country in the world -- that is their home country in the first place, and many people can still find relatives there, and even the Zhu family, the Marquis of Huaiyin, a branch of the Qing imperial family, is still mixing well, and the Marquis of Huaiyin is still a famous chemist and biologist today.

Although these flag men have gone to Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhou Prefecture and even the Ming Dynasty, they will still carry cages and birds to blow their ancestors, but the ability to learn is still not left behind...... In fact, when these banner men were studying in Paris and Vienna, they did not shake their heads and recite the Four Books and Six Classics, but referred to the primary and secondary school curricula of the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom. Therefore, their level is basically equivalent to that of senior high school graduates in Daming Kingdom. It's not the same species as the Banner Man from another time and space. These bannermen are just fools, but they are by no means ignorant!

Their existence naturally allowed the Great Qing State to organize the Eight Towns New Army and the Beiyang Naval Division with quite good quality, and could also provide sufficient professional and technical personnel and management personnel for the new arsenal opened by the Great Qing State in Bohemia. And. It can also make the foreign exchanges of the Great Qing Kingdom more normal.

The Qing Dynasty of Europa has long sent diplomats to major countries in the world, and has also signed many "unequal treaties" that are still equal. Not to mention the fact that the customs, which is the lifeblood of the country's economy, should be handed over to foreigners for management...... Of course, the Ming Empire never thought of taking over the customs of the Great Qing Kingdom. Nor did they impose the 5% tariff on the Qing Dynasty. Because the size of the Ming Empire itself is huge enough, there is no need to take every precaution against the big but not strong old empire of the Great Qing Kingdom.

In addition, the Empress Regent Catherine, who has been in charge of the Qing Dynasty for more than 20 years, is also much stronger than the Cixi Lafayette. This Lafayette has gone to college seriously, and he is still the best in the Divine Heavenly Dao Country, the Vullenburg Theological Seminary (known as a seminary, but actually a comprehensive university), and he is also a graduate of the Department of International Politics, which is known as the cradle of diplomats in the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom.

During her more than 20 years in power, the Qing Dynasty carried out almost all the best reforms. The only drawback is that it is impossible to get rid of the ancestral system of dominating Europe with flags. Therefore, the "strength" brought about by the reform of the Qing Dynasty is only the strength of two million banner people. Not more than 300 million Europeans. When the Qing Kingdom met 30 million English people who were fighting for the rise of the nation, it was suddenly revealed!

The New Army of Eight Towns and Eight Banners, which had been formed at the expense of huge wealth, could not go into battle at all, and was only a spectator of the war. And the Qing court was constantly sent to fight in Zealand and the Danish Peninsula, all of which were extremely weak European training troops. And it doesn't have much of an advantage in numbers. The so-called million-dollar army is trained because the military salary is too low and the management is too loose. Less than a third of them will be able to go to war at the end of the day. And the opponents, the English and the Nordics, threw more than 400,000 troops into the battlefields of Zealand and the Danish peninsula! In a very short period of time, it defeated the new army of more than 300,000 Europeans of the Qing Dynasty, took the entire Danish Province, and also invaded the territory of East German Province. Occupied Hamburg Province and Mecklen Province.

Faced with the collapse of the war situation on all fronts, the Qing Emperor Zhu Yongzhen forced the Beiyang Naval Division, which had "protected ships to avoid the war", to leave the military port of Antwerp and enter the North Sea in an attempt to cut off the sea transportation line of the Anglo-Nordic coalition forces. As a result, they were ambushed by the other side and engaged in a bloody battle with the powerful English navy in the waters off Jutland. The mighty ironclad ship "The Nation of England" showed its might. The fierce explosive-piercing blasting shells fired by four 9-inch rapid-fire guns exploded four Qing ironclad ships one after another, sealing the victory with a decisive advantage.

After the defeat of both land and sea, England and the United Kingdom of Northern Europe offered peace conditions to the Qing State through the Ming Empire. They want to get an indemnity of 300 million taels of silver and the Danish Peninsula (to England), Zealand (to Northern Europe), Funen (to England), Lorrain (to Northern Europe), Falster (to Northern Europe) and many other islands between the Danish Peninsula and the United Kingdom of Northern Europe...... The entire province of Denmark is basically going to be cut out.

Such humiliating and harsh peace. Naturally, it was not what the Qing Emperor Zhu Yongzhen was willing to accept. So he wanted to put the new army of 120,000 bannermen into the battlefield, but was resolutely opposed by the Empress Dowager Catherine. And the Empress Dowager Catherine wanted to betray the country for glory. It was also resisted by Zhu Yongzhen and the Europeans in the court. In the end, the two sides could only reach a compromise and ask the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom for help.

As a result, the war between the Qing Dynasty and England and the Nordic kingdoms began to escalate rapidly into an international war. After the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom and the two vassal states of Persia joined the war, the European countries such as Italy, Spain, Greece, and Serbia, as well as the Mamluk Sultanate on the other side of the Mediterranean, also joined the side of England and the Nordic Kingdom.

This international war lasted for a total of five years, and finally under the joint mediation of the Ming Empire, the Chinese Empire and the United Kingdom of China, the exhausted parties finally reached the negotiating table. A costly peace was reached, and the amount of indemnities skyrocketed to 1,000,000,000 taels of silver (mainly paid to the Kingdom of England)! The amount of land carved out has also increased considerably. In addition to the Danish provinces, Sardinia (to Italy), Corsica (to Spain), the provinces of Northern Switzerland (merged with the Italian vassal Southern Switzerland to form the Duchy of Switzerland), and the entire Polish Viceroyalty (ceded to the Holy Celestial States as compensation for their troops).

In addition, the provinces of Romania, Bulgaria, Constantine, and Asia Minor were also separated from the theoretical territory of the Great Qing Dynasty. However, they did not all join the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom, but were divided into two. The province of Romania was incorporated into the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom. The rest became an independent Western Huaxia Republic, whose neutrality and territorial integrity were guaranteed by both the Ming Empire and the Divine Heavenly Dao State (in fact, it was still controlled by the Divine Heavenly Dao State). Meantime. The naval vessels of the Divine Heavenly Dao Nation can freely enter the Mediterranean Sea through the Sea of Marmara.

Suffice it to say, the Qing Empire became the only loser in this international war. Not only did they lose a large part of the country, but they also lost their entire navy (the port of Antwerp was once captured by England. The Beiyang Naval Division was completely destroyed), and also lost most of the new arsenals (the provinces of Bohemia and Austria became the main battlefields of the Holy Heavenly Dao Army and the allied forces of Italy, Serbia, Greece, and Spain during the war, the major cities changed hands several times, and all important industrial facilities were destroyed in the war), and it also owed a huge foreign debt that was enough to completely collapse the finances.

And the only improvement achievement that has been preserved should be the Eight Banners New Army in eight towns! These were well-equipped and well-trained, and the theoretical combat effectiveness of each town far exceeded that of the elite of an infantry division participating in the battle. In the whole war, he was not in the line of fire once. Not a single shot was fired at the enemy.

The only record was in Austria and Bohemia, where he was placed behind the training of the Europeans, who were poorly equipped and had little training...... Nor did they expect that these wasted armies could defeat the Italian and Spanish armies heading north, but only that they would serve as meat shields and delay the progress of the other side, so that the Austrian and Bohemian bannermen would have enough time to retreat.

And this policy of resolutely preserving the new army of the banner people is undoubtedly the main reason why the Great Qing State can still survive after experiencing such a huge setback. These eight bannermen who did not play any role in the war were quickly suppressed by Napoleon after the war. Several armed uprisings of Europeans led by Bonaparte. The political situation was temporarily stabilized.

However, the damage caused to the Qing Kingdom by the previous great war was not so easy to overcome, not to mention the consequences of losing a large amount of territory, losing the banner people forever and bearing huge reparations. In the whole war, except for France (the Ming State stipulates that France is a non-belligerent zone), all the territory of the Qing Dynasty. All of them have become battlefields of fierce fighting between the two sides.

And the troops that fought on the battlefield and were able to fight were undoubtedly composed of soldiers who were Europeans or Europeans (soldiers of the Divine Heavenly Dao Country). Countless foreign soldiers who were almost the same as the appearance of the Europeans of the Qing Dynasty brought more than just the land to the Europeans of the Qing Dynasty. Painful memories of the destruction of homes in the war. I also witnessed the invincible New Army of the Eight Banners fleeing before the offensive of the European army.

So much so that in the later stage of the war, such a joke became popular among the European doctors of the Great Qing Dynasty. It is said that the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty are "to flee when they see the enemy is for the bravery, and to flee for the wind is to be brave." Mishearing the news and fleeing is to be brave." The myth of the Eight Banners of Heavenly Soldiers, the invincibility, has become a huge joke in the minds of all Europeans. The European training army, which was used as cannon fodder in the war, was also reorganized and re-equipped with the help of the Divine Heavenly Dao Army in the middle and late stages of the war (in order to make them better serve as cannon fodder), making it a quasi-new army. By the end of the war, the number of these quasi-new armies, controlled by their respective military chiefs, had surpassed the new army of the bannermen, reaching nearly 180,000 men in 12 towns.

With such a huge new European army, the Qing Kingdom is naturally unwilling to raise and cannot afford to raise. But it is not easy to dismiss them, although the equipment of these armies is not good, but they have seen blood and smelled gunsmoke in many years of war. In case they are forced to rebel, whether the new army of the banner people can cope with it, only God knows! In order to appease the European leaders who held military power, the Qing court had to appoint them as governors of Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary.

In addition, calls for constitutional reform have also begun to appear among European doctors. The year after the signing of the Hong Kong Peace Treaty, which ended the war, the Qing dynasty who had gone to Paris to attend the examination jointly sent a letter to the imperial court demanding constitutional reform, which was widely believed by these Europeans to be the main reason for the Qing dynasty's defeat in the war. Of course, it is not that no one knows about the national issue, but none of these people who participated in the examination dared to say anything about it...... They are not Napoleon after all . The chaotic party of the European League led by Bonaparte!

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Heavenly Dao 535, December 30th. On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, in the Taiyi Pavilion of the Longevity Palace where the Empress Mother of the Qing Dynasty Catherine lived, Ekaterina and Zhu Yongzhen, who were full of white hair, had a yellow face, and there was not much life in their eyes, and they sat silently for a long time, without saying a word, and only one elderly black eunuch was Yekaterina's henchman, and the old eunuch wiped her tears from time to time. The atmosphere was bleak to the extreme.

The fortunes of the Qing Dynasty are like this, and the Queen Mother Regent is terminally ill, there is really a sense that the edifice is about to collapse.

"The Queen Mother, the sons and daughters beg you for this matter, this constitutional reform, no matter what! Napoleon's chaotic party is now getting more and more violent, and many officers and soldiers of the training army (referring to the new army of Europeans) have joined the chaotic party! If we don't reform again, I don't know when, these military training will rebel! ”

Zhu Yongzhen pleaded bitterly while shedding tears. He's also in his thirties this year. But this power has always been in the hands of the old queen mother.

And the Empress Dowager's attitude towards constitutional reform is four words - resolutely no!

Listening to Zhu Yongzhen's words, the old queen mother suddenly smiled bitterly: "Constitutional? Do you understand? Do you think the Qing Dynasty has reached this point today because there is no constitutionalism? You...... I just can't figure it out! ”

Zhu Yongzhen straightened his waist: "Can't figure out what?" ”

Catherine's tone was also sad, covering her face and shaking her head: "I can't figure out that this Qing Dynasty will die!" Today's Qing Dynasty is the same as the body and bones of the mourning family, there is no help, it just drags on for some time. Don't believe this, constitutionalism or something, the mourning family knows better than you! The mourning family attended the Vulture Castle Theological Seminary, where he studied international politics...... What's going on with constitutionalism, the mourners know more than those nerds who go to school! Therefore, the mourning family has been in power for more than 30 years, and it is to hold on to the constitutionalism. Because I have my own national conditions in the Qing Dynasty, that is, to be outnumbered and to defend Europe with flags, which is the foundation of the Qing Dynasty! If it is changed, there will be no more Qing Kingdom, you know? ”

"But if you don't change it, the Great Qing Kingdom won't be able to sustain it!" Zhu Yongzhen shook his head.

Ekaterina snorted coldly: "Why can't you maintain it?" Are you fake when the new army of the Twelve Towns is fake? With them, those Europeans don't dare to make a mistake at all, not to mention the Divine Heavenly Dao Country, and the Western Huaxia Republic! She looked at Zhu Yongzhen coldly, "The mourning family has a breath of air, don't even think about this constitutionalism!" If you dare to make a mistake, the mourning family will definitely abolish you! When the mourning family goes to see the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, it is not too late for you to seek your own death. In short, this Great Qing Kingdom cannot die in the hands of the mourning family! (To be continued.) )