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- Chapter 540: Democratic Era
After this battle, the power of the southern vassal states was basically wiped out. Just when the Chinese Empire's army was about to sweep across southern Japan, they received another news.
The Tokugawa family took advantage of the opportunity of the Southwest Army being mobilized to move south, directly tore up the contract with Toyotomi Hideyori, marched straight in, and reached Bichu within ten days.
Because the Chinese Imperial Army was concerned about the resistance of ordinary Japanese people, they basically did not carry out any massacres in the lands they occupied. They even carried out a partial co-optation policy. While temporarily leaving the interests of the small nobles untouched, they took over the land of those daimyo. It was distributed to ordinary Japanese people in order to temporarily stabilize the hearts of the local people.
Of course, the Chinese Empire would never show mercy to those who resisted. In the next two months, nearly 200,000 Japanese who participated in the resistance were slaughtered.
The Tokugawa family's army was not so polite. Wherever they went, it could be said that there were corpses everywhere, and they massacred three places in the city alone.
??For Japan, the Chinese Empire is the aggressor. Although the interests of the Japanese are temporarily retained, once the Chinese Empire occupies the entire Japan, the Japanese will be at the mercy of the Chinese Empire.
But it was because of the massacre by the Tokugawa family that the Japanese in the southern vassal states were even more hostile to the Tokugawa family than the Chinese Empire.
Therefore, when Xiao Mingqian ordered the formation of a Japanese servant army, the Japanese in the south were very active. In less than twenty days, a Japanese servant army of 300,000 was formed.
First of all, the military treatment of the Chinese Empire is really good. If one person serves as a soldier, the whole family does not have to go hungry. Secondly, the hatred in Japan has been raised to a very high level because of so many years of war. No one wants their family members to be massacred by the Tokugawa army.
Tokugawa Hidetada's foolish move brought him huge trouble. Not only were resistances rising one after another from various places, but he also had to face huge pressure from the 180,000 Chinese Imperial Army and 300,000 Japanese servants in the south.
Not counting this, at this time, the 120,000 Chinese Empire cavalry that had been assembled in the north suddenly went south and attacked Sendai within ten days.
At the same time, the navy of the Chinese Empire also appeared on the sea that was later called Tokyo Bay, directly threatening Edo.
Strangled on three sides, in less than two months, Tokugawa Hidetada tasted the taste of national subjugation and committed suicide in his own palace in Edo.
The only remaining member of the Tokugawa family, Tokugawa Iemitsu, was besieged in Sendai in the north and could not move. However, although Sendai persisted for two months because the cavalry troops gave up artillery for mobility, his luck came to an end after Edo was captured.
Three hundred artillery pieces concentrated their firepower on Sendai for two hours, directly turning Sendai into a scorched earth.
In this way, the last country in East Asia completely disappeared. Although for the next fifty years, Japan never stopped resisting, due to the migration of the population and the abolition of Japanese culture, this kind of resistance basically only existed by the time of the third generation emperor of the Chinese Empire. On the books.
"Your Majesty, what I am most proud of in this life is meeting the Emperor. If it were not for the Emperor, even if I was not drowned that year, I would probably have to live among pirates!"
In March 1862, Tang Hongsheng, who was over seventy years old, was getting worse and worse until he died.
After receiving the news, Xiao Mingqian, who was in Nanjing, put down all his affairs and rushed back to Taipei, staying with Tang Hongsheng.
??Apart from Xiao Mingqian, Tang Hongsheng can be said to be the biggest contributor to the Chinese Empire becoming the most powerful empire in the world.
Although he is not as good as Chen Yuanyun when it comes to strategy, he is not as good as Li Yuanxin when it comes to financial management, and there are many people who are worse than him when it comes to technology. But it was precisely because of his overall control that the Chinese Empire was able to have a clean and efficient government.
In the hearts of the people of the entire Chinese Empire, Tang Hongsheng is their Xiao He and their Fang Du. His serious illness plunged the entire Chinese Empire into an atmosphere of sadness.
"Sir, don't say that. Meeting your husband is the greatest luck in Ming Qian's life. Without him, there would be nothing in the Chinese Empire."
Xiao Mingqian sat beside Tang Hongsheng's bed, held Tang Hongsheng's hand, and said sadly.
Thirty years, almost thirty years, I have struggled with Tang Hongsheng for thirty years, and I have changed from the eight-year-old child back then to a thirty-eight-year-old middle-aged emperor.
Watching the old people around him grow old one by one, Xiao Mingqian felt extremely sad in his heart.
Although birth, old age, illness and death are natural laws, no matter how powerful Xiao Mingqian is, he cannotResist the erosion of nature, but Xiao Mingqian really hopes that he can reverse such natural laws.
No wonder emperors in the past dynasties have tried their best to refine the elixir of immortality. If he hadn't known that this was absolutely impossible, Xiao Mingqian would have thought this way.
"Your Majesty, there is no need to be sad. This life is worth it! But I still have one last thing to say to the Emperor!"
At this time, Tang Hongsheng seemed to have suddenly become energetic. But Chen Yuanyun, who was standing nearby, knew that this was a flashback and that Tang Hongsheng's life had come to an end.
"Sir, if you have anything to say, you can say it directly. Ming Qian will obey you very much." Xiao Ming Qian also saw that Tang Hongsheng had reached the last moment.
"The Emperor once said that absolute rights mean absolute independence. I am just worried that after Your Majesty's ten thousand years, our Chinese Empire will follow in the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty!"
After saying this, Tang Hongsheng seemed to have exhausted all his life force, but he still kept his eyes open and looked straight at Xiao Mingqian, as if waiting for Xiao Mingqian's reply.
Xiao Mingqian did not expect that Tang Hongsheng would say these words. Over the years, Xiao Mingqian has become accustomed to controlling the power of the entire Chinese Empire, and sometimes he has even forgotten some of his previous concerns.
At this time, Tang Hongsheng suddenly said these words, and the memories that had been buried in Xiao Mingqian's mind came out like a flood.
Looking at his teacher, the veteran who had struggled with him for thirty years, Xiao Mingqian felt extremely guilty.
"Sir, please rest assured that from today on, there will never be anyone in the Chinese Empire who has absolute power."
Xiao Mingqian's words shocked the surrounding ministers, and at the same time made Tang Hongsheng close his eyes in relief.
On March 16, 1862, the day after Tang Hongsheng's funeral, Xiao Mingqian announced that he would convene all social strata and convene a parliament to formulate a constitution to further restrict the emperor's power.
During the next twelve years of his reign, he basically gave up intervening in the Chinese imperial government. He would only appear at discussion meetings on major events. From then on, the Chinese Empire entered a truly democratic era.
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