Other than starting the process of annexing the capital of China, Dali's submission had another meaning to Great Xia.
It was already the 15th day of the seventh month of the fifth year of Gaia. It had been more than a year since the founding of Great Xia, and the promotion of the Great Xia Dynasty to the Great Xia Empire had long been on Ouyang Shuo's agenda.
Ouyang Shuo did some calculations. With Dali's submission, the Great Xia Dynasty had already fulfilled seven of the nine basic conditions to become an empire, leaving only "Condition 3" and "Condition 9".
Condition 3: The dynasty occupies at least a third of the region's territory.
According to the rules set by Gaia, Tibet, Western Xia, Western Turkic Khaganate, Mongolia, and the Jin Kingdom were all part of China's territory. This meant that although Great Xia had conquered the entire southern region and was expanding overseas, it still needed to conquer Tibet, Western Turkic Khaganate, Mongolia, and the Jin Kingdom to meet the requirements.
Ignoring the Mongols and Western Turkic Khaganate, the most suitable targets were Tibet and the Jin Kingdom.
Ouyang Shuo had already set his sights on the Jin Kingdom. He instructed the commander of the Northern Frontier Army, Yue Fei, to increase the surveillance of the Jin Kingdom while reorganizing the army.
Condition 9: Possess at least one treasure from the Jin Kingdom.
This was the condition that gave Ouyang Shuo the most headaches. Although he had already obtained Emperor Yu's Pendant, he did not know how to trigger the Nine Cauldrons' mission. There was a great deal of uncertainty.
Of course, Ouyang Shuo believed that Gaia would not give him an impossible mission, so he could only wait patiently.
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In the following week, Ouyang Shuo did not stay in the capital. Instead, he went to the newly conquered Northern Frontier Province, Hanoi Province, and Siam to visit the frontline soldiers, appease the local aristocrats, and stabilize the hearts of the people.
During this period, Great Xia began a new round of immigration.
Ouyang Shuo's goal was to bring more than 70% of the players in China under Great Xia's rule. As such, this round of immigration was the largest, and the requirements were relatively low.
Great Xia planned to bring in 15 million players to settle in the various counties of Great Xia.
Players were especially encouraged to settle in the six royal cities of Hanoi, Edo, Seoul, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, and Bangkok. With the help of the various royal cities and satellite cities, they could explore the Underworld.
The imperial court also gave appropriate evacuation to the players who settled in Dali, alleviating the population pressure in Dali.
Compared to the Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty, Shu Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, and Song Dynasty, not only was Great Xia more powerful and prosperous, but it also understood the players better.
Settling down in Great Xia was no longer a difficult task.
After this round of immigration, including the original Dali players, the number of Huaxia players living under the rule of Great Xia would reach 40 million, occupying almost half of the Huaxia region.
In this way, Great Xia's position would be even more unshakable.
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On the 22nd of July, when Ouyang Shuo was patrolling Siam, a system announcement messed up his plan. He had no choice but to end his trip to Siam in a hurry and return to the capital.
"System Announcement: Congratulations to player Feng Qiuhuang for becoming the third Lord in the Huaxia server to become a Capital City. You have been awarded 80,000 Merit Points. Congratulations!"
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"World Announcement: Congratulations to China's player Feng Qiuhuang for becoming the ninth Lord to level up to a capital city. Rewards: 50,000 Achievement Points; 100,000 Reputation Points. Congratulations!"
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"System Announcement: The Huaxia region has been promoted to capital cities, triggering the battle system. The tenth battle, [Battle of Qing Mie], will officially begin in three days. Please look forward to it. Friendly Reminder: The battle between the Qing dynasty and the Ming dynasty is a non-compulsory mission. Only territories that have been promoted to capital cities are eligible to participate. "
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Upon hearing the name of the battle, Ouyang Shuo knew that this would be the last battle in China. After this battle, the last two dynasties, the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty, would appear in the wilderness and join the process of history.
"That's true …"
Ouyang Shuo smiled bitterly and shook his head. This way, no matter how the Northern Border Army prepared for the battle, they would inevitably be attacked by the Jin Kingdom and the Capital County.
Gaia had clearly stated in the system announcement that the condition to trigger the battle was for all the territories in the Huaxia region to be promoted to capital cities, not the third one.
From this, it could be seen that if Dan Yang City, Overlord City, and Blood Red City did not join the Great Zhou Dynasty, the last battle in the Huaxia region would probably drag on for a long time.
Gaia had put in a lot of effort to use the ten battles to describe the history of Huaxia.
As for this particular battle, there were many things to watch out for. Firstly, the battle name [Battle between the Qing dynasty and the Ming dynasty] was a false proposition. This was because the Ming dynasty was not destroyed by the Qing dynasty, but by Li Zicheng.
In 1644 AD, in the third month of the 17th year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the Great Shun army led by Li Zicheng captured the capital. Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself on Coal Mountain, marking the end of the Ming dynasty that had ruled Huaxia for 276 years.
As for the remnants of the Ming dynasty, it was called the Southern Ming regime.
At that time, Huaxia actually had four powers. One of them was the Qing dynasty established by the female Taoist, Huang Taiji. It controlled a total of more than 200,000 troops, and the area it controlled was only the Liaodong region and the vicinity of the capital.
The one guarding the Shanhai Pass was the Count of Pingxi, Wu Sangui.
Other than the Qing, the Southern Ming Hongguang regime in Jianye, the Roaming King Li Zicheng's Great Shun regime in Henan and Sichuan's Zhang Xianzhong's Great Xi regime had more troops than the Qing army, and they occupied the entire south and northwest.
The day before the Qing army entered the pass, Huang Taiji suddenly died.
Regent Dorgon assessed the situation and formulated a strategy to first take the northwest, then the southeast. That was to gather troops and first consolidate the surrounding areas of Yanjing, then attack Li Zicheng's Great Shun army in the northwest, which posed the greatest threat. After destroying them, they would rely on the vast north to attack the Southern Ming Dynasty in the southeast, so as to achieve the goal of breaking them one by one.
Therefore, according to Ouyang Shuo's understanding, the Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty should be the Qing Dynasty destroyed the Southern Ming Dynasty.
Just like the Meng Yuan Dynasty's army, in order to maintain its rule, to promote its culture, and to issue the 'hair shaving order', the Qing army carried out countless massacres in Huaxia, killing tens of millions of common people.
The slogan of the hair shaving order was: 'Keep the head but not the hair, keep the hair but not the head.'
The most tragic massacre was the 'Ten Days of Yangzhou', 'Jiading Three Massacres' and other massacres, which caused the population of Huaxia to decrease sharply. In many areas, 'there is no unbroken village in a county, no unbroken home in a village, no unbroken person in a family, no unbroken wife'.
The 'Ten Days of Yangzhou' was also known as the 'Yangzhou City Massacre'. It referred to the massacre of the common people in Yangzhou after Shi Kefa led Yangzhou's army and people to stop the Qing army from invading the south.
According to the survivor Wang Xiuchu's' Yangzhou Ten Days Diary 'and the late Ming historian Ji Liuqi's' Southern Lue of the Ming Dynasty ', the massacre lasted for ten days, hence the name' Yangzhou Ten Days'.
Yangzhou fell after fierce resistance, the Qing army massacred and looted, and did not stop their sabers for ten days.
The flourishing Yangzhou city of several generations was now piled with corpses, hands and feet piled on top of each other, blood flowed into the water, turning into five colors, the pond was leveled, front, back, left, right, everywhere was burned, corpses piled up in the city like a tangled hemp.
Other than a small number of Yangzhou's common people who escaped before the city was breached, and a few who were lucky enough to escape after the Qing army entered the city, almost all of them were brutally massacred. The number of corpses collected by the monks alone exceeded eight hundred thousand.
During the Qing Dynasty, when literary inquisition was prevalent, all the records regarding the Yangzhou City Massacre were deliberately covered up after the Qing army entered the Han territory, so that most people before the end of the Qing Dynasty did not know anything about this massacre.
The 'Jiading Three Massacres' took place in 1645 A.D. After the Qing army breached Jiading, they carried out three massacres of the common people in the city. At that time the Qing army issued a hair-shaving order, the common people of Jiading refused to obey. The country gentleman Hou Dong once led the Jiading gentry and people to revolt against the Qing. The Qing Wusong Zongbing Li Chengdong immediately led five thousand troops to attack.
The city of Jiading was breached, Li Chengdong gave the order to massacre the whole city.
Among the common people, there were those who were hanged from beams, those who jumped into wells, those who threw themselves into the river, those whose faces were covered with blood, those whose limbs were chopped off, those whose limbs were still moving, were uncountable. Their flesh and blood were scattered everywhere.
The women in the city were brutally raped. If they resisted, the soldiers would use long nails to nail the resisting women's hands to the door planks, and then they would wantonly rape (and) rape (rape).
The massacre continued for a day, until the river was blocked by the corpses. About thirty thousand people were killed.
After that, Li Chengdong led his army and left Jiading City.
But the calamity of Jiading City was still not over. Three or four days after Li Chengdong's massacre, the lucky survivors of Jiading began to slip back into the city.
After they returned to the city, under the leadership of a righteous man called Zhu Ying, they regrouped, with a total of more than two thousand people. Zhu Ying led the survivors to launch a counter-massacre in this broken city, executing the traitors who surrendered to the Qing army and the officials appointed by the Qing army.
Li Chengdong also led his soldiers straight into the city, killing many of the common people who were still sleeping, piled up their corpses into a hill, and then set fire to the corpses. The Qing army was in high spirits, and Jiading City suffered the 'Second Massacre'.
More than twenty days later, a general from the Southern Ming called Wu Zhifan led the rest of his troops to attack Jiading City. The common people in the surrounding area also responded, and the Qing army in the city was routed and fled.
Not long after, Li Chengdong reorganized his army and counterattacked, killing hundreds of Wu Zhifan's soldiers, and also slaughtering nearly twenty thousand common people who had just arrived at Jiading to escape the chaos. Their blood flowed like a river, and they became known as the 'Third Massacre of Jiading'.
The Qing army often used the excuse of 'evil to rebel' to slaughter the surrendered army and common people, and those who dared to resist were almost all killed, leaving behind only some obedient slaves.
In addition, the Manchurian Qing also killed a million Miao people, killed millions of Hui people, and killed the Zungar tribe of Mongolia in the north of the desert until only one child was left. This cruelty was rarely seen in the history of the world.
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