Chapter 1 Atlas of the Four Seas

Time flies, heroes from all over the world and Kyushu come out one after another, the earth is boundless, the torrent of history is mighty, and the mountains and rivers silently witness the infinite cycle of destruction and rebirth on the earth.

Emperor Song Yiming of the Great Yuan Dynasty was originally a hereditary Marquis of the second rank of the former dynasty, the late emperor Liang Yun of the former dynasty was absurd and immoral, to the chaos of the government, the people were not happy, the heroes of the world were forced to start an incident, and the righteous army from all walks of life attacked it together, Liang Yun could not parry for a while and ordered Song Yiming to be the general to exterminate the rebel army, Song Yiming is such a shrewd person, the general trend of the world is clear at a glance, so he does not directly confront the righteous army after going to the front line, but wanders and sees, because most of his army is his own henchmen, so the soldiers of the three armies are also obedient, The will of the imperial court can no longer influence its actions, and after the righteous army destroyed the city and conquered the imperial city, Song Yiming waved his army to attack and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Although Song Yiming is suspected of speculation, but he really has a great talent, and is good at employing people, under his strategy, the righteous army from all walks of life was quickly wiped out by it, and when the general trend was initially decided, Song Yiming founded the country and called the emperor, took the country name "Yuan", and set the capital of Tai'an, so the world also called Dayuan "Taiyuan", after the emperor, Song Yiming began to establish and conquer.

Internally, a new system was created on the basis of inheriting the old system of the previous dynasty. According to the previous dynasty system, there are Shangshu, Zhongshu, and Menxia three provinces above the six ministries, divided into Shangshu Ling, Zhongshu Ling, and Menxia Shizhong, the major policies of the imperial court are jointly formulated by the governors of the three provinces, and then the next is divided into six specific implementations, but because Shangshu Province is directly in charge of the six departments, the officials of the six departments are more in accordance with the command of Shangshu Ling, with the development of the court bureau, the power of Shangshu Ling is getting bigger and bigger, Emperor Xuan of the previous dynasty noticed this problem, in order to prevent Shangshu Province from monopolizing power, after several weighing, Emperor Xuan set Shangshu Ling into a fictitious position, Generally by the hard work but no longer have the energy to engage in politics of the old ministers, so that only retain the Zhongshu Ling and the two substantive official positions in the subordinate servants, so that the imperial court is divided into two provinces in charge of the Zhongshu and the two provinces, and then handed over to the six departments of the province of Shangshu to implement the specific implementation, so as to prevent the power of the ministers from being in charge alone, cholera and the court. After Song Yiming won the world, he found a new problem, the power of the Shangshu order was divided into the two provinces of the door and the middle book to exercise it can really prevent the emergence of the minister, but the decree of these two people needs to be implemented by the six ministries, and the six departments belong to the province of Shangshu, once the six departments and the officials of the two provinces have any objections, this will cause the implementation of the decree to delay the situation, in order to solve this problem, Song Yiming decided to disrupt the restart, contrary to the previous dynasty, he set up the two official positions of the Zhongshu order and the servant of the door into a fictitious position, and restored the Shangshu order to real power, However, in order to prevent the emergence of the situation that Shangshu Ling is in charge of the whole world, it will be divided into two, and set up the left and right Shangshu Ling, which is also known as the left and right prime ministers, the left minister is responsible for the soldiers, households, and rites, and the right minister is in charge of the three departments of punishment, work, and officials, and the two prime ministers complement each other and restrain each other, so as to prevent the dictatorship of the ministers, and at the same time, the world's Kyushu is divided into 13 states: Zhong, Tong, Chu, An, Jing, Liang, Rong, You, Yin, Bo, Chongqing, Guizhou, and Yunnan. However, he has the right to directly report to the emperor for dereliction of duty and rebellion such as disloyalty, inaction, and rebellion; Among the thirteen states, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan, Liang, Jing, An, Tong, Chu eight states are military states, the north is An, Chu, Tong three continents, the northwest is Jingzhou, the west is Liangzhou, the southwest is Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan three states, the so-called military state is in the border with the four Yi garrison state, the military state is Shangzhou, in the military state in addition to the history of the assassin, the history of the supervisor also set up the general's office, the title is from the three products "General Yunlu", under the two deputy generals, the military state should be governed by the history of the assassin, General Yunlu is only in charge of the military, military operations below 3,000 people can be decided by themselves, However, when it comes to the mobilization of more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, it is necessary to assassinate the history and the army cast by the generals and the imperial court, and the emperor can be recorded by the history of the supervisor. Most of the military troops in the military state are stationed in the border military towns according to different situations, and the military towns are commanded by the "Xuanwei General" from the fourth grade, with left and right deputy generals; Due to the different geographical differences, the garrisons of each military state are different, but the military state marches Taiwan at least 50,000 troops, and the general's mansion Yunlu is transferred every five years, and the eight major military states take turns to perform their duties or join the imperial court, and other states other than the military state have 8,000 state troops to settle the place.

Externally, Song Yiming changed the Huairou policy of the previous dynasty and resolutely used troops. The north of Taiyuan is a vast grassland, and further north is the land of extreme cold, and there are dozens of foreign tribes living on this boundless land, among which the more powerful ones are Qufu, Yingzi, Qiudan, Yuanzhong, Nurou, and Beiqi six tribes. At the beginning of Song Yiming's reign as emperor, the northern tribes conquered each other, in order to strengthen their respective strength, the cavalry of the various ethnic groups went deep into the south from time to time, burned and looted to supplement the military resources, especially Yuan Zhong, Nu Rou is even more, to wait for the world to be a little peaceful, Yuan Chengzu Song Yiming sent the general Cheng Lichao, Xiao Mei to attack Yuan Zhong, Nu Rou, Tai Yuan army attack all over, north attack Di people more than 1,000 li, resulting in Yuan Zhong, Nu Rou led by the tribes have to be called vassals and surrender, since then the north is stable, there are not too many big wars for more than 300 years. After Song Yiming settled the Di people in the north, he divided the two prefectures of An and Tong to the north accordingly, and sent 100,000 troops to Xingtai, so as to maintain absolute deterrence against the ethnic minorities in the north.

Taiyuan west of Bobu, Bobu people are more tall and powerful than the Central Plains people, and extravagant killing, as early as the time of the previous dynasty, the Bobu people established the royal court to fight everywhere, to the end of the previous dynasty, when the Central Plains was in the middle of the war, the Bobu people took advantage of the fire to rob, raised troops to the east, and occupied more than hundreds of miles of the Central Plains. Song Yiming called the beginning of the emperor, did not directly conflict with Bobu, but concentrated on pacifying the northern tribes, to the north of Dading, then waved the army westward, with the help of the Liangyi people soon drove the Bobu people out of the Central Plains, in the following years of continuous use of troops, the general Ji Mao was against the holy will to massacre the Bobu people, the poor Bobu clan was almost killed, the surviving Bobu people had to return to the abyss, Song Yiming recalled Ji Mao and decreed to allow the Bobu people to continue to live in the place where they arose, and encouraged them to live in the Central Plains, from then on the west to return to the abyss, the beacon fire gradually extinguished.

The southern Yunnan and Guizhou prefectures had been collected by the central government as early as the time of the previous dynasty, so Song Yiming said that the emperor followed the old system of the previous dynasty, and did not make a big move to subdue hundreds of tribes in Yunnan and Guizhou, but after it was later set up as a military state, 40,000 Taiwanese troops were stationed in each of the two state capitals, and the territory of some tribes was reset. There are many ethnic minorities in Yunnan and Guizhou, and there are often conflicts between the tribes, the ethnic minorities in Yunzhou in the southwest of Taiyuan are the most, and the population of each tribe is small, and most of them are not belligerent, so there will be no substantial threat to the central power, but Qianzhou has been a troubled place since ancient times, firstly, because there have been several larger tribes in Qianzhou, the strength is stronger, and secondly, the mountains and rivers in Qianzhou are high and dangerous, and the scope of the substantive jurisdiction of the Central Plains Imperial Court is very small, so even if there has always been a rebellion, the imperial court has only borrowed strength, Supporting a clan to suppress a clan has been effective. Yuan Chengzu Song Yiming was determined to be in the four seas, naturally not only here, but at the beginning of the emperor's resolute suppression of the disobedient tribes, after the rebellion was quelled, the original tribes were further refined into many small tribes, so that other tribes with the heart of rebellion can play a role in killing chickens and monkeys, and at the same time, the rebel and capricious tribes can be completely erased. Under his rule, Qianzhou was divided into 21 parts such as Ganfu and Dongxiang, of which Ganfu, Dongxiang, Youluo, and Tongping occupied four quarters of Qianzhou, and the rest of the departments occupied six points.

In the eighteenth year of Zhiyuan Chengzu Qiande, the Taiyuan Empire set Yuan Zhong and Nurou in the north, Bo Bu of the barbarian tribe in Xiping, and collected Guizhou and Yun Zhuzhou in the south.

Yuan Zhong and Nu Rou are all northern nomadic tribes, Yuan Zhong arose four hundred years ago, to Yuan Chengzu Song Yiming, has already been in the north for more than 100 years, its only opponent in the north is only Nu Rou, Nu Rou is also one of the tribes conquered by Yuan Zhong, and then Taoguang Yang obscure, constantly wooing, merging Yingzi, Qiudan and other tribes, and Yuan Zhong gradually became a confrontation, the two major ethnic groups conquered each other, each other has success or failure, when Yuan Chengzu pacified the Central Plains, these two tribes are also like the sun, and take advantage of the Central Plains beacon fire is not extinguished when the army goes south, burning, killing and looting, Do no evil. After the Taiyuan general Cheng Lichao and Xiao Mei divided the army to attack it, Yuan Zhong, Nurou and other troops were forced to retreat north, and finally called the minister Nagong, it was also when the Taiyuan army attacked, another ethnic group among the many tribes - the north abandoned, found vitality in the war, and took the opportunity to grow and develop. Due to the attack of the Taiyuan army, the vitality of the two divisions of Yuan Zhong and Nurou was greatly damaged, and the north abandoned the latter to catch up, and after more than 200 years of development, the power increased greatly, and there was a great tendency to unify the north.

Legend has it that the mother of the ancestor Tulan Tuomu was originally a slave of the Yuanzhong nobles, because of his delicate appearance by a noble son, and then conceived a son, but because it was a slave body, and after being a nobleman, it was naturally felt that it was a shame of the royal family, and the Yuanzhong royal family wanted to take it down and execute it together with the child in the belly. After a few months of escaping, it was dying of life, just at this time, the road met an old man to rescue, and temporarily saved his life, soon after giving birth to a baby boy, the shepherd fence fled for several months has run out of lights, all the children in the belly support its life to this time, after giving birth to the spirit also collapsed instantly, before the time to name the child to return to Huangquan, the eyes were tearful when he died, very miserable. He couldn't bear the child to freeze to death in the extremely cold place, so he benevolently adopted him, but he didn't know what the child's father was, only roughly knew that the child's mother was a slave of Yuanzhong, and he didn't know anything else, so he had to name the child with his own surname, called Tulan Tuomu. Because his mother was displaced to avoid chasing and killing when she was pregnant, it was a blessing in misfortune to be able to keep the child, not to mention the food and nutrition, so Turan Tuomu was delicate and thin since he was a child, and he learned to walk until he was more than five years old, and the old man who adopted himself also died of illness when he was ten years old, but fortunately, the old man was kind and popular in the local tribe, and after his death, the tribe people also took care of Tuomu. But the good times did not last long, Yuan Zhong people to expand their power, everywhere to fight, the tribe where the wood is located was in the process of the tribes to escape the war and gather together, the personnel are mixed, and most of them are some old and weak women and children, in the face of the Yuan Zhong people's iron horse, how can there be the power to parry, in order to escape the slaughter of the Yuan Zhong people, the wood had to flee with the tribe to the colder, barren north.

After Tulan and the others fled to the far north, they temporarily got rid of the pursuit of the Yuan Zhong people, but they had to face two problems, one is that there are other tribes in the far north, and these tribes will naturally not tolerate these uninvited guests, so even in the extremely cold land, the people have to swallow their anger and die everywhere; Second, this far north is in a freezing period for most of the year, and there is a shortage of water and grass, coupled with the severe cold, food is extremely scarce. The young mind of the dewood soon understood a truth, this is the world of the weak and the strong, only if they are strong can they find a glimmer of life in this troubled world, so in his spare time, he intends to invite the little friends in the tribe to hunt and shoot together, and even pull and pull the old man in the tribe to teach the skills of riding and archery, time flies, the dewood has grown into a big child, and began to resist the pursuit of the nearby tribes, because of the courage and fortitude of the dewood, the tribe has been persecuted for many years and other tribes are willing to follow it, and the wood is decisive, Soon he gained a firm foothold in the far north, and named the tribe containing the fleeing people of all races "abandoned", which means abandoned by the world, and the world is called "northern abandonment". In addition to the Wang surname "Tulan", there are also several surnames such as "Xun Thorn" and "Bo Yi", and these clans form the main force of the Northern Abandonment.

To the sixth year of Taiyuan Qiande, Yuan Chengzu Song Yiming sent a large army to suppress Yuan Zhong, Nurou, to the two parts of the vitality of the great injury, at that time the north abandoned the leader Tulan Yike took the opportunity to attack the rear of Yuan Zhong, occupied a large territory, the power increased greatly, but was afraid of the Taiyuan Tianwei at that time, did not dare to attack excessively, Tulan Yike inherited the ancestor Turan off the wood will, Taoguang Yang, and took the initiative to the Yuan Yuan to pay tribute, won the Yuan Emperor Song Yiming appreciation, but Song Yiming also knew the nomadic habits, so he also strictly limited the expansion of the North Abandonment, and always limited it to a controllable range.

Since ancient times, hereditary dynasties can not escape a fate, that is, the prosperity must decline, to the eighth generation of Taiyuan Emperor Song Rong, Taiyuan's control over the north gradually weakened, Beiqi took advantage of the situation to expand, conquered more than a dozen tribes headed by Qu Fu, further expanded the power, and began to attack the territory of Taiyuan, but Taiyuan Tianwei is still there, Yuanzhao Emperor Song Chengyang made great efforts, so that Taiyuan Zhongxing, in a war with the North Abandonment, captured the leader of the North Abandonment and his eldest son, In order to protect himself, Emperor Zhao had to promise Emperor Zhao to return several of the territories of a small number of famous clans in the north that were attacked by him, and once again declared himself a vassal to Taiyuan, Emperor Zhao ordered to prevent the rebellion of the North from beginning at that time, and each generation of leaders of the North Abandon must send their eldest son to Tai'an as a hostage, and study the culture of the Central Plains, learn the etiquette of the Han people, until the Emperor Song Ji of the Yuan Dynasty, this agreement has been fulfilled for nearly a hundred years, and now it is the eldest son of the leader of the North Abandon Turan Tingyi who is hostage in Tai'an. However, the Taiyuan Empire has lasted for more than 300 years since the founding emperor Song Yiming, and the prosperous era has long disappeared.

Wei Rong is another name for the Liangyi people of a minority ethnic group in the west of Taiyuan, which already has a relatively complete state system in the previous dynasty, but because the western geography is remote, the environment is harsh, and the national strength is far away from the Central Plains Dynasty, so it has always been a vassal state of the Central Plains court, at the end of the previous dynasty, the Bobu people rose rapidly, fought everywhere, the Liangyi people bore the brunt, when they were invaded by the Bobu people, the Liangyi people had several times asked for help from the emperor of the previous dynasty, but the late emperor Liang Yun himself was difficult to protect, and how to care about this small country in a corner of the wastelandIn the face of the powerful Bobu people, the Liangyi clan had to leave their homeland and flee, and most of the royal nobles fled to the Central Plains for refuge. Later Chengzu Song Yiming seized the land of the Central Plains, and began to rectify the western barbarian Bobu, the Bobu people are mainly cavalry, good at running, but the overall quality of the army can not be the same as the Taiyuan army, plus these barbarian leaders although the courage is abnormal, but most of them are barbarians, the Central Plains Dynasty has been paying attention to "good strategy" since ancient times, and the generals of the army are either full of strategy themselves, or they are equipped with more military advisers, and the Bobu people have hardly done much resistance in the territory of the Central Plains they invaded and were driven back to the western wasteland by the Taiyuan army.

Yuan Chengzu Song Yiming ambition in the world, after the Bobu people returned to the west, the Taiyuan army did not stop there in the holy will, but took advantage of the situation to pursue, but the Bobu people have lived in the western wasteland for many years, the environment and climate of the place are well understood, after they returned to the west, they used their advantages to understand the local geographical environment to give the Taiyuan army a lot of obstacles, the advantages of the Taiyuan army are difficult to play for a while, and the Bobu people make full use of their characteristics of being good at running to harass the western expeditionary army, the three armies of Taiyuan are difficult to move an inch for a while, and there is nothing to do. At this time, the Liangyi royal family took the initiative to see Song Yiming, willing to help the Taiyuan army, the Liangyi people have ruled the western territory for many years, and the understanding of the western wasteland is better than that of the Bobu people, seeing that the Liangyi people took the initiative to offer advice, Song Yiming couldn't ask for it, so he ordered him to enter the army with a decree to guide the way for the western expeditionary army, with the help of the Liangyi people, the Taiyuan army really changed the previous decline, and broke up several times the rush of the Bobu army, and then took advantage of the victory to pursue, in the final battle, a blow was successful, Captured more than 70,000 people, including many Bobu women, children, old and weak, and ordered Ji Mao, the general of Zhenghu, to kill all of them, and suddenly the yellow grass was red, and the blood flowed for thousands of miles.

Yuan Chengzu's conquest of Bobu is not to exterminate the roots of the tribe, but to stabilize the west, although Bobu is cruel in nature, but the women and children are always innocent, Ji Mao killed the Quartet, can shock the universe, but it chilled the heart of the tribes in the west, Song Yiming saw that the situation was not good, on the one hand, he immediately issued a decree to recall Ji Mao and hold him accountable, on the other hand, he sent another minister to the west to pacify the tribes, and pardoned the surviving orphans of Bobu, which stabilized the hearts of the people in the west. After this battle, Bob's living army was gone, and the crisis in the west was basically eradicated.

In the process of conquering Bobu, the Liangyi people made great contributions, after the war, Chengzu Song Yiming specially ordered to restore the royal court of the Liangyi people, continue to rule the western border, in order to show military merits, the Liangyi leader was given the title "Wei", which means "the domain guards the abyss". At this point, the Liangyi people returned to their homeland and built a "defense country", and the world called the Liangyi people "Weirong". After Wei Rong restored the country, with the continuation of the rule of Dayuan for more than 300 years, although there were bloody coups in the royal family from time to time, the Dayuan Emperor chose to defend it, as long as he did not damage the interests of Dayuan and did not change the name given by the ancestors, he would not interfere too much.

When the emperor Song Ji of the current dynasty, Wei Rong was also in turmoil in the country, and several princes were secretly competing, all wanting to replace the old king, and there was a tendency to get rid of Taiyuan and stand on their own. The four realms of Taiyuan have long been full of wind and clouds, but it is just a matter of convention, and the four seas still seem to still worship Taiyuan as the supreme, and Emperor Song Ji of Yuande is sitting in this vain empty shell and does not know the trend of the world.