Chapter 1106: The Warrior Nation

The entire Great Hall was deathly silent.

Only the voice of Liu Zheng remained.

Xie Ming was so angry that his whole body began to tremble.

He was the Emperor!

Why should he have to endure all this! This was a blatant humiliation to him!

Liu Zheng continued calmly: "The Emperor's marriage must also be screened by the Cabinet of the Parliament and passed before it can..."

"You, you, you..."

Xie Ming could no longer hold it back and almost burst into a torrent of abuse.

Zhu Zhen, the Prince of Qin, and these people were breaking out in a cold sweat.

They knew that if they wanted a constitutional monarchy, this process was inevitable, but they had not expected Liu Zheng to be so direct.

This was treating the Emperor entirely like a puppet!

How was this any different from the traitor Cao in history?

Treasonous!

If this were in the history of the past, Liu Zheng would absolutely be treasonous! An existence like Dong Zhuo. Thinking of this, people could not help but smile bitterly. Was that Dong Zhuo in history not also from Xiliang?

"Presumptuous!"

"Vice Minister Liu, where do you place Me!"

"Where do you place the Imperial House!"

Xie Ming could no longer hold it back, staring coldly at Liu Zheng and shouting.

Liu Zheng bowed with cupped hands: "Your Majesty, this is the late Emperor's last edict. Constitutional monarchy, delegating power to the court, pooling wisdom, and working together—only then will Longyan have a future! The strength, thoughts, vision, and energy of one person are, after all, limited. Whether it is the Cabinet or the Parliament, they are all elites of society from all walks of life. Although Your Majesty is honored as the Son of Heaven, you are ultimately a mortal body. If you exhaust your heart and blood, it will affect Your Majesty's dragon body, and it will be difficult for society to enjoy long-term stability."

A mortal body!

A mortal body!

Boom!

This sentence was what truly terrified everyone!

He actually said the Son of Heaven was a mortal body! In the history and cultural heritage of Longyan, this was absolutely treasonous! Son of Heaven, Son of Heaven, Heaven-Given Imperial Power. This was the Confucian interpretation of imperial power, yet today, he was merely a mortal body... but this statement seemed to have nothing wrong with it...

Everyone in this court knew that the theory of the Son of Heaven was just to fool the common people.

How could there be a true Son of Heaven? If he were truly the Son of Heaven, how could he die? Xie Tianyao would not have died; he would have been immortal.

This phrase "mortal body" directly struck Xie Ming, leaving him sweating profusely as he slumped back into his seat.

"You..."

"You..."

He looked for help toward the group of people kneeling on the ground.

The group of people kept their heads lowered.

His heart instantly turned cold!

A bunch of traitors! This was to treat him as a puppet, to control him, to hollow him out!

"Lord Zhu!"

He roared at Zhu Zhen.

Zhu Zhen kept his head lowered.

"Prince of Qin!"

He roared at the Prince of Qin again.

The Prince of Qin also kept his head lowered...

His heart was broken... He sat slumped on the Dragon Throne. Was Longyan really about to change its sky?

Die!

Vice Minister Liu must die!

The court was dismissed.

Liu Zheng walked in front with a thoughtful expression.

This, instead, made these court officials and Feudatory Kings see his dominance, and one by one, they consciously walked behind Liu Zheng. At this moment, Liu Zheng had already become the number one minister of Longyan, and even Zhu Zhen was willing to follow behind him.

Just yesterday.

Liu Zheng had just signed the Cooperation Agreement of the East India Company with these scholar-officials and Feudatory Kings, and only then did these people discover that they had already been tied to the same boat by Liu Zheng.

Whether it was the Old Aristocrats, the New Aristocracy, or the scholar-officials...

It seemed now

that they all had to follow Liu Zheng's lead.

And so.

A comical scene appeared just like that.

If Liu Zheng walked in front, they followed behind, and no one dared to step ahead by even a single step.

Liu Zheng suddenly fell into deep thought and stopped, and the group of people hurriedly stopped along with him.

Today's Liu Zheng already held such a status in Longyan!

Of course.

This was not Liu Zheng deliberately playing with them, but rather he was indeed thinking about things.

As far as Longyan is concerned now, many things still need to be implemented. Constitutional monarchy will officially begin after the new Emperor ascends the throne and Xie Tianyao's State Funeral. It is already being prepared in an orderly manner. Why was Liu Zheng so "irritable" toward Xie Ming today? Because he did not want imperial power to rear its head again; it had to be suppressed! He had no heart, and even less time, to play these house-games with them inside Longyan.

His gaze was on the whole world.

The world to come will be exceptionally spectacular. Peter the Great, Yekaterina, the ascendant Britain, the impending French Revolution, and a peerless powerhouse, Napoleon, should also be stepping onto the stage of history. The American War of Independence, and so on and so forth... There is too much that Liu Zheng wants to get involved in.

Therefore.

Domestically, he should remain forceful where he needs to be.

After thinking for a moment.

He finally noticed the actions and attitudes of those behind him.

He couldn't help but offer a wry smile, and he couldn't be bothered to care.

Actually, for him, it is a good thing.

What he wants right now is a relatively stable Longyan.

Zhu Zhen and the Prince of Qin watched Liu Zheng's back, wanting to speak several times but stopping, yet in the end, they still did not make a sound.

Zhu Zhen felt that he might truly be old; whether it was his age, his body, or his mind, he was struggling to keep up. The future Longyan should be the world of the young... He sighed deeply. He did not know if tying the Scholar-official group to Liu Zheng's ship was the right thing to do.

But he was already powerless, and furthermore, in his current state, it was already very difficult for him to find a qualified successor within the Scholar-official group.

There was none.

Even if there were, compared to this radiant Vice Minister Liu, they would immediately be eclipsed.

That was how he thought.

And how could the Prince of Qin be any different?

The horse carriage was already waiting outside.

Liu Zheng sat inside and took a deep breath; Jiang Xuan was already waiting to the side.

"Beat Vice Minister Liu to death!"

"A disaster to the country and the people!"

"Get out, Vice Minister Liu!"

"Protect Balkhash Lake!"

"Protect the Emperor!"

Near the Imperial Palace, it was nothing, but once they left the palace for a while, there were gathered crowds everywhere, and everywhere were those shouting people of Jinghua. These Royalist Faction members could completely use the war situation at Balkhash Lake as a talking point these days... The Allied Forces were retreating steadily, which gave them a reason to attack Liu Zheng.

"How is it going?"

Liu Zheng seemed to have anticipated this situation long ago and asked with a calm face.

Jiang Xuan knew that Liu Zheng was under great pressure right now and immediately said, "Over at Kuye Island, General Xiao's reinforcements have already arrived... I have already sent a letter to General Xiao, notifying him to immediately send men to the polar region... But, Young Master, will there really be people in that kind of polar region?"

Liu Zheng smiled faintly.

Will there be people?

Of course there will!

The group he is looking for is exactly those people!

The nemesis of Tsarist Russia!

The Chukchi!

Liu Zheng had actually known for a long time that the battle at Balkhash Lake would not be easy to fight. If Tsarist Russia had not occupied Balkhash Lake, it would be one thing, but once they gained the initiative, it would be very difficult for them to take it back. Tsarist Russia had been called a fighting nation for generations.

This kind of fighting nation,

in the age of cold weapons, its advantages would be magnified several times over.

Simply put.

With Tsarist Russia currently increasing its troops at Balkhash Lake to 250,000, those 250,000 could easily defend against Longyan's 400,000-strong army. In history, who were the more famous people or ethnic groups of Tsarist Russia?

First, it was the Cossack Cavalry.

That is, the group of soldiers currently occupying Balkhash Lake.

So how strong is the Cossack Cavalry? Napoleon once said that if he had the Cossack Cavalry in his hands, he could sweep across the entire world. The Cossack Cavalry was absolutely the pinnacle of Light Cavalry. Their movement speed was quite fast, their mobility was strong, and their lethality was high; they achieved incomparably brilliant records on the European battlefield. They beat Napoleon's troops until they were looking for their teeth all over the ground.

They were hailed as the "Number One Cavalry in the World"!

But fortunately, what is gratifying at present is that the number of Cossack Cavalry in the current Tsarist Russian army is not yet very large.

Because the Cossacks served Poland in the early days. It was only later that they served Tsarist Russia; it was the current commander-in-chief of the Tsarist Russian army, Rumyantsev, who, as governor at the time, organized these Cossacks into ten regular cavalry regiments. It was not until Empress Yekaterina began her expansion around the Black Sea that the Cossack territory was truly brought into the fold of Tsarist Russia.

However.

There is a "however" here.

People all say that the Cossacks are the kings of the cold weapon era, but Liu Zheng knows that there is another group of people who are the true fighting nation!

That is the Chukchi!

Liu Zheng had calculated the historical timeline; this is currently the period of vigorous expansion for Tsarist Russia. With the military support of the Cossack Cavalry, Tsarist Russia was almost sweeping across the world, expanding its territory to the entire Far East region like autumn winds sweeping away fallen leaves, and in the end, they even reached the Kamchatka Peninsula area.

In terms of the progress of Tsarist Russia's eastward expansion at that time, they were almost an invincible, crushing, and unstoppable existence in Siberia.

However.

Unexpectedly, the ever-victorious Cossack Cavalry did not think that they would meet their natural enemy here.

That was the Chukchi!

In the Battle of the Berlin River, the first time they clashed with the Chukchi, they were beaten by the Chukchi until they were looking for their teeth all over the ground, and even their leader, Shestakov, was killed on the spot!

Tsarist Russia naturally could not swallow this insult, so they continued to send Cossack Cavalry to attack the Chukchi...

Only, they did not expect...

This fight lasted for more than thirty years. Not only were the Chukchi not defeated, but they became stronger the more they fought. On the contrary, the Cossacks, who were hailed as the world's number one cavalry, left countless corpses here.

In the end, Tsarist Russia had no other choice and had to acknowledge the independence of the Chukchi region through the law known as the "Regulations on the Management of Alien Peoples," and stated that the Chukchi enjoyed the privileges of exemption from forced labor and would never have to pay taxes...

This was unique within the ruling territory of Tsarist Russia.

So, one can imagine...

Just how capable of fighting these Chukchi are.

The Ancient Yasha Kingdom!

Legend has it that these Chukchi are tall in stature and ferocious in appearance.

At this historical juncture, Liu Zheng can make good use of this ethnic group.

He wants to set the backyard of Tsarist Russia on fire! Recent pop-ups are severe, please click to download to avoid pop-ups.