The Travelers of the Heavens

After the capture of Jinling, Wang Duo led his troops to the Andong Protectorate and placed a guard outside the Governor's Mansion. Then he sent people on horseback to return to the capital to inform Wang Qi.

"Prince, Jinling has sent someone." The guard came in to announce

"Please come in," Wang Qi said.

"Report to the prince that Jinling has been captured by our army, Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the long-haired bandits, has been killed. The commander has led his troops to the Duhu Mansion." The messenger told Wang Qi the matter

"Thank you for your hard work. You can rest for two days and then go back to Jinling and tell your second brother not to be too polite to those Qing court regiments and do whatever you want," Wang Qi said.

""Yes" the messenger responded and withdrew.

"Go and call the Foreign Affairs Director and the Commercial Director." Wang Qi rang the bell and said to the people who came in.

Soon, Huangfu Weiyan and Bi Yunlei arrived.

"Let me tell you some good news. Changmao has been eliminated. Hong Xiuquan was killed by our army. Jinling has recovered. Clean it up. When Madam comes back, we will return to Jinling," Wang Qi said.

"That's great." Huangfu Weiyan and Bi Yunlei were very excited after learning the news.

"Prince, do you still have any of our people in the capital?" Huangfu asked Weiyan

"Leave a few smart people from your foreign affairs department, and I will leave a battalion to protect them," Wang Qi said.

""Yes," Huangfu said in response.

He returned to the Great Zhou Empire and lived in the Grand Master's Mansion in Luoyi.

After resting for more than a month, Li Xiaoman's injury had already healed, and she was ready to say goodbye and return to Rooster Land.

In the Taiyin Temple, Li Xiaoman He knelt down to say goodbye to his parents-in-law, and then Wang Yu opened the space tunnel and sent him back to the Old Summer Palace in Chongji Land.

It was already May of the thirty-seventh year of Chengkang (the first year of Tongzhi in Congji Land, 1862 AD).

"You are back, pack up, we are going to return to Jinling," Wang Qi said to Li Xiaoman

"ah? Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Army is entrenched in Jinling. How can we go back?"Li Xiaoman still doesn't know that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is over.

"I have sent troops to eliminate them, and Hong Xiuquan was also killed. Now the eighth brother's army has swept out the Duhu Mansion and is only waiting for us to go back," Wang Qi said

"So fast? Is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over so soon?"Li Xiaoman was very shocked.

"What do you think? If I have long-haired hair, it will take ten years?"Wang Qi rolled his eyes and said

"Um? Why are you still crying? What does this mean?" After a while, Wang Qi saw Li Xiaoman wiping tears and was speechless.

"After ten years, we can finally go back," said Li Xiaoman

"Actually, I think Old Summer Palace is pretty good," Wang Qi said.

"That's not as good as the Protectorate's Palace," Li Xiaoman said.

""Haha." Wang Qi smiled and said nothing else.

In the evening, after the couple finished their work, Li Xiaoman cried to Wang Qi about being whipped.

After listening to her words, Wang Qi could only comfort him with kind words. After all, In the Zhou Empire, the etiquette and laws were very strict. This behavior of sleeping leaning on the Queen's Zi Palace was a serious disrespect and could lead to death. Li Xiaoman was lucky to escape. He settled this year with the Qing court. It was the rent of the first year of Tongzhi. Wang Qi and Li Xiaoman were leaving the Old Summer Palace and returning to Jinling.

Before leaving, the couple also requested an audience with the Empress Dowager of the East and West and the Emperor of Tongzhi so that they could say goodbye in person and discuss the Qing royal family's treatment of them over the years. Thank you for your care.

With the early end of the Taiping War, the Qing court also began post-war reconstruction. Having seen the power of Zhou's"foreigners" guns and artillery, the Qing court was determined to carry out the Westernization Movement to strengthen itself.

Wang Qi expressed support for this, but It was limited to financial support.

At the end of the thirty-eighth year of Chengkang (the second year of Tongzhi's reign in Gongjilu, 1863 AD), the 48-year-old Emperor Ji Chen announced his abdication. He was also the first Emperor of Zhou to abdicate since the founding of the Zhou Empire. In the future, his posthumous title after his death will be"Rang", and he will be known as Emperor Rang of Zhou in history. On the fifth day of the first lunar month of the following year, Ji Chen personally put the twelve crowns on the head of his son Ji Yan in the Huangji Hall of the palace.

After the enthronement ceremony, Ji Chen prepared to go to Haojing to retire.

The era name of 1864 (the third year of Gongjilu Tongzhi) was designated as the first year of Qianyou in the Zhou Empire.

Since the palace in Haojing has not been tidied up yet Well, in addition to the cold weather in the first month, Ji Chen currently lives in the Yongfeng Hall of the Luoyi Palace. In

May of that year, Ayan and the Seven-Star Envoy led troops to escort Ji Chen and his concubines to Haojing. In

June, A huge team arrived in Haojing.

The architectural style of the palace in Haojing is similar to that of Luoyi, only smaller in scale.

After Ji Chen was settled, Ayan and the Seven-Star Envoy returned to Luoyi to resume their duties.

Ji Chen eventually returned to Haojing. Jing completed the rest of his life and became the first Zhou emperor to die in Hao Jing since the founding of the Zhou Empire.

Returning to Rooster Land.

Wang Qi was not idle during this period, he was preparing a plan , a plan to connect the north and the south so that the natural chasm is no longer a natural chasm, this is the"Yangtze River Bridge" plan.

Wang Qi plans to invest in building at least two large bridges on the Yangtze River. This will be a bridge that will be constantly exploded by explosives, thus providing a good foundation for Kyushu in the future. The movement of troops from north to south provided convenience.

Since this raw material could not be found on the current cock land, Wang Qi could only turn to his father for help.

Wang Yu also appreciated his son's idea very much and decided to refine these raw materials himself..

These two bridges are the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge and the Central China Yangtze River Bridge that countless forces in the cockroach land later loved and hated.

Why they love and hate it, because the bridge provides convenience for quickly crossing the river, and hate it because once the war situation goes against one side , then the unfavorable party wants to blow up the bridge but cannot, and there is a mechanism at the bottom of the bridge. Once activated, part of the Yangtze River will be blocked, and ships with a displacement of more than 50 tons will be unable to pass, which will also affect the shipping of the Yangtze River..

In the fifth year of Qianyou of the Great Zhou Empire (the seventh year of Tongzhi's reign in Gongjilu, 1868 AD), after several years of preparation, the construction of the two Yangtze River Bridges officially started.

A large number of Yanjia people and machine beasts as well as workers recruited from the local area were active on the construction sites. This is bound to be a long project.

All the raw materials and components used in the bridge were transported from the land of Kyushu and the World through time and space tunnels. Therefore, Wang Yu traveled between Zhongzhou Divine Kingdom and Rooster Land.

During the construction of the bridge, something happened to Rooster Land again.

In the tenth year of Qianyou (the thirteenth year of Tongzhi's reign in Gongjilulu, 1873 AD), Emperor Tongzhi died at the age of nineteen.

The Queen Mother of the West was very sad when she lost her son, but it was too late. For the sake of power, the Queen Mother of the West repeatedly delayed the date of withdrawing from the throne and returning to power. Fortunately, Emperor Tongzhi had a good attitude and did not get serious with his mother over the issue of power.

What really worsened the relationship between mother and son was the Queen Mother's frequent interference in Emperor Tongzhi's private life, which made Emperor Tongzhi intolerable. Fortunately, he no longer had to bear the pain. He could finally let go of it all and become a free soul.

Since Emperor Tongzhi died suddenly and had no sons during his lifetime, choosing a new emperor has become the current focus of the Qing court.

In the end, the son of Prince Chun Yixuan, Zaitian, who was only four years old at the time, became the new emperor of the Qing Dynasty. This Zaitan was the later Emperor Guangxu, and he was the cousin of Emperor Tongzhi.

In June of the eleventh year of Qianyou (the first year of Guangxu's reign, 1874 AD).

The Japanese who had gone through the"Meiji Restoration" came to visit them on the pretext that their businessmen were killed by local Mudanshe mountain people in Taiwan (Treasure Island).

The Japanese's reason was ridiculous, and it sounded like a random excuse. In fact, those Japanese businessmen disappeared in a storm.

While the Qing government was negotiating with the Japanese, the latter sent the so-called"Taiwanese Tibetan Expedition" to brazenly invade Qing territory. This so-called expedition team was actually a brigade-level combat force with 3,600 soldiers, led by Colonel Kawasaki Shiki, who was still the Army at this time. Yes, you heard it right. The future Japanese Navy Commander was from the army, but this was not his original identity. At first, Huashan Ziji was just the leader of the military police. Although he had the word"military", he was not the same as the military police chief. The military has nothing to do with it.

Wang Qi was happy to learn that the Japanese came to his door. The hunting dogs from Japan are already in place and can be tried to operate.