The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 252: Chaos in Paris
The battle of Himeji Domain lasted for ten days. After the battle, the coastal land had turned into a huge pile of corpses.

Ming officials and samurai division officers were unable to determine exactly how many enemies were killed in this war.

The workload of cleaning up the battlefield is too huge. It may take several months. By the time all the dead bodies on the periphery are moved away, those inside will have rotted away.

Liu Biao decided to cover the site with earth and erect a stone tablet here to record the crimes of these people in rebellion.

Liu Biao needed to write a report to roughly figure out how many enemies had been eliminated.

We can only calculate backwards through the living people.

What can be confirmed at present is that the number of prisoners finally captured was probably less than 80,000.

Among these captives, there were a few lucky feudal lords and senior family elders who had statistical data on the feudal alliance.

The alliance of feudal lords organized a total army of more than 200,000 people, of which about 100,000 were original samurai from each feudal lord, and the rest were temporarily recruited peasant soldiers.

According to these two data estimates, the total number of people who died directly on the battlefield or escaped was approximately 120,000.

An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers fled during the melee, and even if the death toll on the battlefield was less than 100,000, it was probably not much different.

Liu Biao decided to report the number of people killed as 100,000.

Liu Biao returned to Himeji Castle to write a report and arranged for the Japanese samurai division to advance with the support of the navy to capture, control and reorganize the land of the feudal alliance.

The daimyo, family elders, and retainers of each feudal domain who were lucky enough to survive followed with infinite fear and tried to persuade their companions from their hometown to surrender.

The main forces of the various vassal states of the Ming Dynasty had been completely destroyed, and the peasants had also suffered a heavy loss.

Unless someone can mobilize all the ordinary peasants at this time, these feudal lords will no longer have the strength to continue resisting.

Japan's war was basically over, and the next step was for the Japanese King Tokugawa Ienari to come to Beijing to apologize, and then be sent to Africa along with the assembled Japanese samurai divisions.
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May 1789, the 5rd year of Xianning, May 25, in the Western calendar.

Representatives of the Shun State and Russia signed an armistice agreement on the northern shore of the Caspian Sea, which renegotiated the future southern border of both sides.

South of the Ural Mountains, the centerline of the main channel of the Ural River is used as the new boundary line.

Judging from the final result alone, Shun State did expand its territory slightly, but the extent of the expansion was very limited.

In fact, at the beginning of the war, Shun State, with the cooperation of Mongolian tribes within Russia, once occupied a large area on the west bank of the Volga River.

However, after the main force of Russia was transferred back from the Balkan battlefield, it began to gradually recover the land occupied by Shun State.

The Russians' natural goal was to retake all the occupied territories.

Although there were setbacks on the battlefield, the overall trend was that Russia was gradually advancing and Shun State was gradually retreating.

Because the troops participating in the war this time were not the main force of Shun that conquered India, but the Mongols, Shun's northern allies.

The Russians, who were in an advantageous position, negotiated with Shun State to end the war before achieving full victory.

Because they learned the news that the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition had won a great victory.

The most crucial thing is that the Ming Dynasty's speed was too fast. The Qing Dynasty, which was once ranked among the world's powers, lasted less than a year.

Now Shun State and Russia are both neighbors of the Ming Dynasty, and both countries have a sense of urgency in their shared destiny.

In order to prevent the Ming army from marching westward to Shun State, or continuing to seize Western Siberia, Shun State and Russia stopped the war as quickly as possible.

The two countries then used this summer to deploy more troops to the eastern border to guard against possible war.

However, when the two countries had basically completed their adjustments, new unrest emerged in the West.

The first day of the first lunar month of the 1790th year of Xianning, February 2, 14 in the Western calendar.

French King Louis XVI and his wife, led the top French nobles in holding a grand Shenzhou New Year parade in Paris.

Celebrating the end of the natural disaster that lasted for five years, congratulating the Ming Dynasty on its successful Northern Expedition and the recovery of its homeland and old capital, and congratulating the official opening of the Suez Canal built by the Ming Dynasty.

In the eyes of Louis XVI, the Ming Dynasty was a friendly ally of France, and the Ming royal family was also his close friends whom he had never met.

Ming culture is now popular among the French aristocracy and literary circles. It is completely reasonable to organize a celebration during the Ming New Year.

Louis XVI was indeed very happy now. However, French merchants and the French bourgeoisie hated the Ming Dynasty to the core.

The Ming Dynasty's expansion in North Africa encroached on their interests in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, and completely seized their interests in North Africa.

The Ming Dynasty controlled the Mediterranean shipping routes, which affected their maritime trade income in the Mediterranean.

The Ming Dynasty imported Ming luxury goods and industrial products, as well as North American grain, leather, timber, herbs and wine directly to France through the King of France.

The King of France acted as a comprador and monopoly dealer, making a fortune from all the nobles.

But it caused countless businessmen and workers to go bankrupt.

French big businessmen colluded with North African pirates to carry out robbery activities against the Ming Dynasty and the United States, attempting to create rebellion in North Africa and Egypt.

However, all of them were crushed by the Ming Dynasty with force, which gave the Ming Dynasty an excuse to directly occupy North Africa.

This almost brought French businessmen to the brink of collapse, and they were forced to begin planning the ultimate extreme option - riots.

I can't deal with the Ming Dynasty, I can't handle the United States, but can't I handle the King of France?
Louis XVI, wearing a Ming-style silk cloak, sat on a float and waved to the Parisian citizens on both sides of the street.

The accompanying military band played a cheerful Ming-style music.

Just as Louis XVI was enjoying the cheers with smugness, a Ming-made bullet flew into his cheek from the side and blew off his skull.

After the Ming Dynasty's garrison in North Africa was equipped with bolt-action rifles on a large scale, this widely used standard firearm may have been kept completely secret.

Inevitably, it began to flow into Europe on a small scale through various channels.

Although the manufacturing technology of European countries did not meet the standards and it was difficult for European craftsmen to directly imitate this rifle, it could be used for special purposes.

After Louis XVI was shot, his body immediately tilted back and his head fell on the seat.

After his brain lost its life, due to the conditioned reflex of the nervous system, the rest of his body trembled slightly for a few times, and then he completely lost his life.

The French Revolution did not break out in the same way as at the same time in history, and Louis XVI held greater power than at the same time in history.

But Louis XVI also lost his life earlier than historically recorded.

However, it should be less painful to be unprepared and have a wild imagination than to be imprisoned for several years and then sent to the guillotine for public execution.

Louis XVI was assassinated, and the joyous atmosphere continued for a few seconds, then came to an abrupt end.

A cacophony of screams and chaos ensued.

Louis XVI's queen, Marie Antoinette, was so shocked that she hugged her husband like crazy:

"Honey...what's wrong with you...wake up..."

The captain of the French king's guard did not go looking for the assassin immediately, but ordered the guards to control the queen and all the nobles at the scene.

This was not a simple assassination, but a premeditated riot.

It was an uprising launched by French big businessmen, some nobles and some military officers against the "traitorous king" and traditional aristocracy.

Killing the king was just the signal for the start of the riot, and the relevant personnel immediately acted according to the plan.

Under the pretext of capturing and severely punishing the king's assassin, they first took control of the traditional nobles who participated in the parade, and then took control of the main officials of the French government.

Finally, he took over the Bastille, where criminals were imprisoned, and controlled the troops stationed there.

After the situation in Paris was basically under control and the riots achieved initial success, the expected differences emerged within the alliance group that launched the riots.

The radicals believed that a National Assembly should be formed directly to establish a pure republic.

The conservatives believed that people should be sent to the city of Antwerp in the Netherlands to welcome Crown Prince Louis Joseph back to Paris to inherit the throne.

Then, the Estates General was convened in the name of the king to formulate a constitution to protect the interests of France's industrial and commercial groups.

(End of this chapter)