Due to the intervention of the second child of the Xiang family, Cuicui's engagement was shelved, and the old man and Xiang Chuan's general intention was to follow local customs, let the brothers compete freely, and save the elders from forcibly making the decision, causing the brothers to turn against each other, and the husband and wife became resentful couples......

The brothers are also very interesting, since they were young, they have been sailing in dangerous waters, and they have developed an open mind. Xiang Yun was in the shipyard upstream of the river, asked his younger brother to look at his new ship to the sky, and by the way, he told his younger brother all his thoughts, and pointed out that he had fallen in love with Cuicui a few years ago.

Xiang Tian smiled and listened to the words, came out of the shipyard and walked along the river bank to the new mill of Wang Baihu's house.

Xiang Yun said: "Second brother, you are going to be the son-in-law of the Wang family, and this mill is yours." As for me, I should take over the ferry in the future, I like to do this, and I also want to buy the two hills in Bixi, plant Da Nan bamboo on the boundary line, and use this stream as my village. ”

Xiang Tian still listened quietly, cut the grass on the side of the road with the crescent-shaped sickle in his hand, and said: "Big brother, I don't want to get this mill, and I also want to go to the ferry, this idea was also a few years ago, do you believe it or not?" ”

Xiang Yun was shocked at first, and looked at the second child if he was not joking, so he stood a little closer, reached out and patted his younger brother on the shoulder, and said with a bitter smile: "I believe that you are telling the truth." ”

Xiang Tian looked at his brother and said very honestly: "Big brother, believe me, this is true." I had already planned to do so, and if my family didn't agree, and the other side did, I'd rather go boating for the rest of my life. ”

In the end, the brothers agreed and according to the local custom, they took turns to sing on the moonlit cliffs, and the arrangement of the date seemed extremely natural, and the result was unpredictable, it was a matter of luck.

So Xu Hao thoroughly understood their singing skills, which seemed to be romantic and silly, which was very interesting. This kind of romantic and silly approach is a competition recognized by Xiangxi.

Cuicui, who has no heart and lungs, is still a happy and carefree little girl, running and singing in front of and behind the house, sitting in the shade of the tree and playing with small bamboo pipes when she is not moving, the old man seems to have forgotten about proposing to her family, and Cuicui naturally forgot about it, although every few days there are men singing love songs outside.

Xu Hao didn't have time to waste it, so he left something for Cuicui and set off to return to the capital.

Take the Xu family's official ship down the river, escorted by a warship on the front and back, left and right, and the cabin is full of squeezed news and intelligence.

Emperor Kameyama fled from Kyoto after the Wa Kingdom and reestablished the Southern Dynasty. In order to regain the throne, a new round of north-south struggle began, and without any external support, the southern dynasty could last for about a century, but in the end it was useless. Fifty years later, the most wonderful Warring States period in the history of the Wa Kingdom will begin.

The greatest threat to China was not the Toyotomi Hideyoshi period, which was unified, but after the Meiji Restoration, the promotion of the Meiji Restoration in the Warring States period should be obvious, and great progress was made in all aspects. The prosperity of local tycocities fostered the budding of capitalism.

Xu Hao subconsciously didn't want to do anything, to say something unpleasant, it was precisely the century-old humiliation of modern times that forced China to undergo earth-shaking changes. Without the repeated humiliation of the great powers, how could there be a revolution that has learned from the pain, and of course history has no ifs.

The Meiji Restoration was caused by the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of seclusion, which was the same as that of the Manchu Qing dynasty at the time. Foreign missionaries, merchants, and civilians were forbidden to enter the country, nor were foreign people allowed to return to China, and ships suitable for ocean voyages were forbidden. During this period. Only traditional trade with the Celestial Empire, Korea, and the Netherlands was allowed, trade was allowed only in the port of Nagasaki, and Christianity was strictly forbidden.

Similar to the experience of the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, after the Black Ship Incident, the United States forced the Wa Kingdom to open its door, which made the Wa Kingdom feel great humiliation from top to bottom, and gave birth to the Hundred Days Restoration similar to the Seven Gentlemen of Kang Youwei, pinning hopes on a puppet-like emperor, which was suppressed by the shogunate and Western forces.

The contradictions at home and abroad intensified, and the common people of the Wakuni Kingdom, who could not bear the rule of the shogunate and foreign invaders, took up arms one after another, and launched a vigorous campaign to bring down the curtain under the leadership of the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest.

Xu Hao stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, and sighed very much about the good luck of the Japanese country, to be honest, whether he admits it or not, modern Japan is a teacher of China, although this teacher is so greedy and brutal, and he intends to copy the Manchu Qing Dynasty and rule China's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

The Meiji Restoration was a leftover form of government in China, establishing a centralized system of government that divided the country into three prefectures and 72 prefectures, with the emperor having unlimited power. The previous identity system of Shinongonggong was abolished, and the nobles such as the princes of the Gongqing were renamed "Hua", and the samurai below the daimyo were changed to "Shizu", and the samurai below the daimyo were changed to "Shizu", and the samurai who were engaged in agriculture and commerce were all called "commoners", and they were all called "commoners", and they learned from Ming Taizu in a lively way.

Of course, most of the other systems were inherited from the West, and in just over 20 years, the country has become stronger and stronger, and a series of unequal treaties signed with Western countries during the shogunate period have been abolished, national sovereignty has been regained, and finally it has entered modernization. It can be said that the Meiji Restoration was a turning point in the history of Japan and a famous event in world history, making it the number one power in Asia.

The current Wa State submitted to the strong ships and cannons of the Ming Dynasty, opened ports and concessions, and signed some unequal treaties, which would bring huge benefits to the Ming Dynasty every year, and Xu Hao was very satisfied with this.

In Baihua's letter, he mentioned a large-scale knightly war in Europe the year before last, on one side was the famous Teutonic Knights, with about 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers. On the other side were the combined forces of Poland and Lithuania, with a strength of 20,000 or 30,000 men, including Tatars and Russians.

The cause of this battle can be traced back to the Mongol expedition to the west, when Ögedai convened the Kuritai Assembly and decided that the elders of the various clans would lead an expedition to the hinterland of Europe that had not yet been conquered, such as present-day Poland and Hungary.

With Genghis Khan's eldest son Jochi's second son, Batu commanded the whole army, with the general Butai as the vanguard, and ordered the eldest son of officers at all levels below 10,000 households to join the army.

The expeditionary force marched wildly, capturing Moscow and slaughtering the entire city. On the fifth day of the onslaught, Vladimir was broken, and at the same time divided his troops to capture the nearby cities.

Grand Duke Vladimir was annihilated due to isolation, and the Mongol army continued to capture a series of countries, capturing the present-day Ukrainian capital of Kiev, and then divided the army into two routes, fighting from north to south.

The army attacked Hungary in the south and Poland in the north, and in 1241 at Varstadt in Silesia, more than 30,000 troops from several European countries and the Teutonic Knights, after a long battle. The allied forces were completely annihilated, but the Mongol army also paid a huge price for the victory, and the Mongols no longer had the strength to continue the westward expedition because of the inability of the people.

The name of the Kipchak Khanate, which has made Europeans feared to this day, come from this.

As a product of the Third Crusade, the Teutonic Knights were on a par with the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar, but later due to various reasons such as internal strife, they were defeated in 6 consecutive times, and the commanders of the regiment were captured by the Middle Easterners.

In 1211, King Andre II of Hungary invited the Teutonic Knights to help suppress the Cumanlei. The trade-off for the southern part of present-day Romania as a fiefdom for the Order undoubtedly provided new opportunities for the Teutonic Order, which was on the verge of disbandment.

In 1225, the Teutonic Knights, who had established themselves in Eastern Europe, attempted to establish an independent state in their fiefdoms, and the disgruntled Andre II expelled them.

The Order was in trouble again, but things soon took a turn for the better, as the Duke of Conrad of Poland expanded northward, but was defeated by the Prussians, the natives of the region, and instead of expanding their territory, they were partially occupied by the Prussians.

Duke Conrad expressed his frustration. So he simply raised the banner of religion and called on the crusaders to crusade against the infidels in the north. It's a pity that the Polish princes were ignored and seemed to be waiting to see his jokes. Although the Prussians in the north were beaten by the Mongols, they were very fierce to the southerners. Beat the Polish knights and retreat.

Seeing that he was about to be cornered, Conrad turned to the Teutonic Knights for help, thus luring the wolf into the house.

The commander of the Teutonic Order kept an eye on it, not wanting to repeat the scene in Hungary. He first went to the Holy Roman Emperor Fetere II and asked for a golden edict.

The edict stated that the Teutonic Knights had the right to occupy the lands granted by the Duke of Conrad and the lands acquired by the Knights from the conquest of the Prussians, and then relied on the rich battlefield experience of the three Crusades. The battle-hardened knights, as well as the strong combat power of the heavily armed knights, easily achieved several victories.

Duke Conrad felt bad, thinking that the Teutonic Knights were not well-intentioned, as for any knight's creed is used to deceive the toiling public, the upper nobles know too well what knights are, just ask in the semi-slave and semi-feudal society where nobles are knights and knights are nobles, only fools will stubbornly believe that knights are great and upright.

Back then, the three knights did those bad things in the Middle East, and their methods were evil and cruel.

Therefore, in order to drive out the Teutonic Knights, Conrad organized a knightly order of his own, which was painstakingly named, called the Knights of Christ of Prussia, and planned to crusade against the natives of Prussia himself.

The Teutonic Knights sneered and watched from the sidelines, and sure enough, the Knights of Christ were defeated and lost, and even the core of Conrad's own territory could not be defended, so they had to bow their heads and admit defeat.

In 123o, in a treaty with the Teutonic Knights, Conrad promised that if the Teutonic Knights conquered their Prussian enemies, he would grant the land to the Order in perpetuity.

In 1234, Pope Gregory IX also issued a Golden Edict, recognizing the Order's ownership of the conquered lands while demanding the forced Christianization of the indigenous peoples.

In 1241, the Teutonic Knights joined an alliance against the Mongol army, and although they were defeated, they were fortunate to achieve a strategic victory, as Ogedei died.

Over the next fifty years, the Teutonic Knights began to conquer all of Prussia, orchestrating numerous bloody massacres, killing many of the princes of Poland and Hungary, and establishing a powerful regime, the Knights' State.

Prussia was the center of the Knights, and in 1237, the Knights of the Sword of Tunguò and Livonia merged, and the Teutonic Knights increased in strength and entered a glorious period, Livonia became the other wing of the Knights' State, building a series of castles as fortifications, but the focus of the three major knights at that time was still in the Middle East world, the holy city of Jerusalem, which was tirelessly wanted to obtain.

With the strong rise of the Muslims in Asia Minor, i.e. Ottoman Turkey, the Teutonic Knights finally moved their headquarters in Venice to Marienburg, Prussia, and became a complete Inner Six power.

Now that the Golden Horde, the most powerful state in Eastern Europe, has gone into decay, its internal divisions are severe, and it has been invaded by the Timurid Empire in Central Asia, and it is no longer in the last hundred years of its existence, and it no longer has any deterrent effect on the countries of Eastern Europe.

Therefore, a new round of power struggles in Eastern Europe will inevitably erupt, and it happens that it is on the eve of the coming of the Age of Discovery, and the products of such a special era as the Knights will inevitably be replaced by the flourishing powers like the Holy See in the twilight.

Gunpowder began to be used on the battlefield, and the first company to produce muskets appeared in Europe.

In the battle that day, the Knights Templar prepared artillery, but unfortunately caught up with the rain and achieved nothing.

The Lithuanians and Tatars on the right flank of the coalition army took the lead in attacking the Knights, who quickly repelled the enemy's offensive and counterattacked, and the hoplite knights once again became the absolute protagonists on the battlefield, and the Tatars began to flee first, making it impossible for the right flank of the coalition to hold the line.

However, the Knights Templar had apparently forgotten the lessons of the fiasco, and the Tatars continued to use the tactics of feigned retreat, attracting sixteen teams that had advanced all the way into a crowded and narrow space, and the horses were trampled in the muddy trenches, surrounded on all sides by the Lithuanians who had returned to the battlefield, and almost all of them were annihilated with simple scythes, spears, and other weapons, as well as deadly bows and arrows. (To be continued......)

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