In the summer of 1686, the Linhan Empire had another bumper harvest, the fourth agricultural harvest since the founding of the country, as if there was a hand of fate in the dark, giving a beautiful hint to the nascent empire.

Since Yang Qilong joined the Han Dynasty, the great peasant uprising that had long plagued northern China has gradually come to an end, and according to the law of social development, this violent form of social reshuffle cannot last long, and when the leader and the led are formally polarized, everything must return to the normal track.

The semi-independent state of Henan Province is like an ice cube under the sea, gradually melting away with the passage of time, Yang Qilong did not make a correct judgment on this issue at all, when he announced his annexation to Beijing with a false and aggrieved attitude, the younger brothers who had been supporting him on the surface have planted into Wang Shirong's arms, in fact, this situation is not very difficult to understand, from a political point of view, the political slogan of this group of people was "drive out the Tartars, recapture the Han family", then now this goal has undoubtedly been achieved, Therefore, accepting the leadership of Beijing can be regarded as "seeking positive results"; From an economic point of view, the current "leaders of the rebel army" are no longer the group of enthusiastic patriotic 'elite' heroes, and several years of high-ranking official career have given them great benefits in their 'private' lives, although most of them are not full of brains and 'fat', but at least they are also rich, and the four major items of "house, car, wife, and girl" are all complete, and many of them have not been since they occupied the territory. Touching the handle of the knife, so it would be very difficult to call them back to fight for an illusory goal. This world is not static, a few years ago the poor man may be able to do this, but now it is impossible for such and such a general or adult.

Wang Shirong's ordnance and grain statistics ya'men did not take much effort at all, and easily rebelled against most of Yang Qilong's generals, and now most of the cities and rural areas in southern Shanxi, northern Henan, and central Henan have been brought under the control of Beijing's political fǔ, playing these officialdom tricks, whether it is Yang Qilong or any of his other subordinates, it is obviously not the opponent of Beijing's old officials, and a series of dazzling and "chaotic" transfers and promotions are difficult to guard, in this process, An important subordinate of Yang Qilong issued a sincere invitation, asking the general of the Dahan Shandong garrison and the mighty Zhonglang to lead the army to station, and cooperate with the local government to "maintain law and order and exterminate bandits", so when the southern governor of Dahan Mountain and the general of Pingshun had not had time to make any response, the general staff issued an order of 800 miles of fast horses in the shortest possible time, and approved the application for the transfer of troops, and the 10th Han Infantry Army of more than 12,000 troops entered Henan, and set up camp and set up customs and defenses. It completely cut off the big scar next to Yang Qilong's department in southern Henan and the 'communication' between more than 30,000 people and central Henan.

Under these circumstances, Yang Qilong had to move his commander to the front line of Xiangyang, and at this time, the area he could control was reduced from southern Jinnan, Henan, and northern Hubei to only a corner of northern Hubei and southern Henan, and the army he could control was sharply reduced from hundreds of thousands to a little more than 120,000, and the supply was increasingly stretched.

After the successful implementation of the peaceful evolution of Henan, the bigwigs of Beijing City have settled down, because as far as the current situation is concerned, Yang Qilong's threat basically no longer exists, and it has been proved that relying on what righteousness or green forest rules and other routines to fight the world are indeed outdated, in the end, not everyone in this world is Zhu Yuanzhang, and now no one in the whole of Henan, including Yang Qilong himself, has mentioned any "righteous feelings" or "flesh and bones" incense and the like, Although most of the officials in local positions in Henan Province were basically Yang Qilong's old subordinates, if someone discussed in public about the "Ming" or "Qing" issues, a large number of people would immediately come to the 'door' in full gear to visit - even if they were talking about "The Legend of the Ming Heroes" in a teahouse.

If the peasant rebel army a few years ago was a big tree, then Yang Qilong was the ripe fruit, as long as there was wind, he would fall off the branch by himself. If he cherishes himself, he will treasure the secret room and be worshipped on incense, and if he is bored with it, he will only rot and rot day by day, drowning in the yellow earth like a pile of sludge.

At this time, Lin Feng had already shifted his gaze, and now he spent most of his time on the navy. Because in terms of time, the expeditionary corps sent by the Han Empire should have already arrived in the Iberian Peninsula, and it depends on God's blessing whether the mission is completed, but no matter what the result is, a war with the Spanish and Southeast Asian armies is already on the line.

Under Lin Feng's personal supervision, the General Staff Headquarters greatly expanded the 'gate' of the Han Navy Department in a very short period of time, from the original liaison and left-behind office into a large 'gate' similar to the scale of the army, and the chief officer of the department's 'gate' was concurrently served by Shi Lang of Fu 'Bo' Zhonglang, and Li Guang's land administration fǔ Since last year, the average monthly allocation of funds has been nearly 250,000 taels of silver, and all the ports along the eastern coast of the Han Dynasty have entered a state of alert. Five large shipyards, including Qingdao, recruited a large number of craftsmen to build warships day and night to expand the navy.

Economically, with the current national strength of the Han Dynasty, as long as you squeeze your pockets, it is not a big problem to build an objective fleet, but at this time, money may not necessarily be able to succeed, according to Lin Feng, in this world, any country does not have a few decades of exercise, and it is basically a fantasy to become a naval power, although China is ahead of the world in many aspects in this era, but this certainly does not include the navy, in addition to well-trained and experienced officers and sailors, Another flaw is shipbuilding.

As a later man, in his impression, the traditional Chinese ship gives a really bad impression, and when it comes to warships, almost no one will think of the kind of square-headed Dafu ship, although this thing looks Yongrong and luxurious, full of beauty, and has a strong Chinese flavor. I remember watching a film about pirates of the Caribbean, in which he was very impressed by the European slender-headed and skinny European multi-masted ships, and historically, although that kind of thing looks a little obscene, it seems to be the mainstream of the future navy.

After Wang Shirong's various efforts, at the end of last year, the Great Han Dynasty finally found some foreign craftsmen who could build ships, to be honest, compared with their descendants, these guys in China are really a bit embarrassed, when the Great Han Dynasty offered a high salary, basically no one expressed any refusal, and his expression was similar to that of a smuggler after turning positive, stunned like a 'chicken' and then ecstatic, originally the secret intelligence officers of the Han Dynasty were also prepared to make a large number of follow-ups, such as threatening 'coercion' Tricks such as 'luring' or torture, but later found out that this is simply unfounded, so this recruitment work was quickly transferred from the political and violent agencies to the civil affairs agencies, and the current work process has been familiar to the majority of international friends in Australia, through the care of the Portuguese governor, the Han Ministry of Industry Ya' in the name of the Jinhui Chamber of Commerce rented a shop, specializing in the 'door' to handle the naturalization of foreigners, the majority of international friends are enthusiastic about it, and the Han Immigration Bureau is doing a prosperous business. In the past, international friends wanted to come to help, and the procedure was simple, and it was OK to sign and draw directly, but now the procedure is cumbersome and huge, and the officials of the Han Immigration Bureau are extremely angry. According to the latest news from the black market in Southeast Asia, the current price of the Dahan green card fluctuates between 90 taels and 150 taels of silver, which is valued separately depending on the luck and character of the parties.

According to the attitude of the leader in charge and the Shangshu Zuo 'servant' of the Ministry of Industry of the Han Dynasty, there is no doubt that those guys who have left their homeland and wandered overseas have the potential to be criminals, you must know that there is a clear precept in ancient times, parents are not far away, and it is unrighteous and unfilial to abandon their family and state, and they actually want to join other countries - although it is natural to serve the Celestial Empire, it can also be regarded as disloyalty to the homeland, right? Therefore, according to this theory, these guys have absolutely no loyalty at all, they can neither be reused nor trusted, and the Han court is just "using".

This statement has a large market in the imperial officialdom, and it can be said that there is basically no opposition, and even Lin Feng does not dare to say "NO", which is a thing that cannot be countered, because this statement originates from a saint, and to oppose it is to oppose a saint; To oppose it is to oppose the basic policies and founding program of the Han Dynasty, which belongs to the category of stinky shit that isolates itself from the people and despises the imperial court, and is "unconstitutional" in the jargon.

Although this statement is a bit excessive, but according to the reality of the seventeenth century, it is not all unreasonable, after the investigation and statistics of the Han court, it was found that those international friends who asked to join the Chinese nationality are indeed not good people, although now in the history of the name is called the "Age of Discovery", but except for some fanatics, the vast majority of innocent people will not run around the world, and now the vast majority of Europeans who are active in Southeast Asia are taking away' Sixty percent of them are concurrently engaged in piracy, and many of them have criminal records, from captains to lowly-ranking sailors, and many of them are notorious wanted criminals.

Of course, Lin Feng has absolutely no intention of upholding justice and working for world peace, on the contrary, friendly exchanges with these transnational criminal syndicates and the establishment of long-term strategic cooperative partnerships have been established by the Chinese government as one of the basic national policies for the next few hundred years.

So with the assistance of these international friends, the naval career of the Lin Han Empire has developed by leaps and bounds, and because of doubts, those experts who were previously engaged in academic research such as 'smuggling' and piracy were only hired as shipbuilding consultants, but the Great Han Dynasty soon found that these international friends had a noble 'spirit' of internationalism, and everyone worked hard without 'selfish' dedication, and in many ways it can be seen that this group of people was enthusiastic and loyal. At the strong request of General Shi Lang, a large number of international friends were approved by Lin Feng to join the Han Navy, and many of them also served as some technical officers.

After several years of development, the Han Navy now has two fleets (the warships of the expeditionary corps are not counted), and its main force is the First Fleet under the command of General Shi Lang, with more than 70 large warships and nearly 20,000 combat soldiers, operating along the coast of China, North Korea, and Japan. In addition, General Yang Haisheng's Second Fleet also has more than 50 large fleets and more than 9,000 combat soldiers.

If all these people are counted, the strength can be regarded as quite objective, at least the East Asian sector has overshadowed the Taiwan fleet in terms of numbers. In reality, however, there is a lack of systematic training, especially in large-scale naval battles, and many of the officers and soldiers have no combat experience at all, and there are even very few exercises.

However, Lin Feng is not very worried at this time, because in terms of the current maritime situation, if the Spanish Navy wants to attack the Han, it must first cross the Taiwan Strait - this problem is quite serious, you must know that although the old Zheng family is a little soft-footed shrimp on land, they are not vegetarian on the sea, and the Taiwan fleet, as a hegemon in East Asia, has absolutely no reason to tolerate some indiscriminate black households passing under their noses, so from the perspective of the Spanish Navy, to attack the ports of North China, If this is not done, the so-called "retaliatory 'sex' strike" will have to be degraded from military action to verbal action.

Of course, the Spanish colonial government could still reach some consensus with Zheng Jing, such as alliances or treaties of friendship, but whether from the perspective of historical origins or the current political situation in China, it is not very 'sexual' to do this, and it is basically not far from the immediate development of an intercontinental missile project.

Fortunately, although the business of the Han Chamber of Commerce has expanded rapidly, but for the time being, no one has done business in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, and the current export of Chinese goods is basically handled by European import and export agents, so even if the Luzon side is furious, it is harmless, whether it is to intercept tea or want to bombard silk, it is warmly welcomed, anyway, it is not the turn of the Han Navy to stand up for those poor worms, and naturally there are a large number of international friends who drive warships to maintain world peace.

When Lin Feng analyzed these situations to the auxiliary ministers, the bigwigs of the Lin Han Empire showed great confidence, through the maritime business in the past few years, the current Han government has really tasted some sweetness in overseas trade, although there are still large votes of the government and the opposition to express contempt for the behavior of "exploiting contacts and competing with the people", but the silver seems to be more realistic, and the vast majority of the administrative heads who control the operation of the government have changed their attitudes, at least Li Guangdi is one of them, as early as more than a year ago, The prime minister of the empire was killed by sugar-coated shells, abandoned the dogma of the sage, and enjoyed the fruits of the policy with peace of mind, this change was much faster than Lin Feng imagined, in the end, as a family member who calculated firewood and rice to live, there was no way to resist this kind of "temptation" and "confusion", and China, as an agricultural empire, had too little money available for free mobilization by the government, and once there was any wind and rain that led to financial deterioration, the consequences would be extremely fatal - not long ago, In order to verify this truth, His Majesty Emperor Chongzhen has already done a small experiment with an empire.

Just when everything was flourishing, the political situation south of the Yangtze River finally changed dramatically.

The cause of the incident was an inexplicable banquet event. As we all know, the most outstanding beauty of the century' His Majesty Wu Sangui, a female connoisseur, died of illness not long ago, as an emperor, his posthumous affairs naturally cannot be too shabby, so the Southern Zhou Dynasty has been busy with this during this time, after hundreds of thousands of hard work, the more than 100 catties of protein finally filled the pit safely before rotting, but the matter is far from over, according to the regulations of the Zhou ceremony, all the subjects of the entire Southern Zhou Dynasty have to spend three years in sorrow, especially the members of the royal family, so His Majesty Wu Sangui's sons, grandsons, nephews and nephews have to go to the mourning hall in the palace twice in three days to report, and then kowtowBurn paper or something.

Logically speaking, most of these activities are presided over by the successor emperor himself, and then the Ministry of Rites or 'servant' Lang maintains order, but at this moment, because of some special reasons, the current Emperor of the Southern Zhou Dynasty His Majesty has not been produced, which is really a very unfortunate thing, after some undignified scolding and mediation, group fighting, the two sides vying for the throne finally reached an agreement, the throne is temporarily suspended, and the Empress Dowager temporarily supervises the country, Wu Sangui's third son Wu Yingzhen was officially canonized as the crown prince, And Wu Sangui's eldest son, Wu Yingxiong's son, Wu Shiwan, was canonized as the emperor's grandson, and Prime Minister Xia Guoxiang and Shangguozhu General Ma Bao jointly assisted the government, and the matter about the throne will be discussed after the three-year mourning period.

This kind of thing is very rare in Chinese history, but it is fair to say that this is indeed no way, otherwise the civil war will break out almost immediately, and if the civil war is together, then the Southern Zhou Dynasty will basically be finished, and this shallow-based and scarred regime will not be able to withstand any toss at all. Therefore, in order to safeguard the common interests of both parties to the greatest extent, this somewhat ridiculous Empress Dowager Yizhi was finally determined after the examination and approval of Xia Guoxiang and Ma Bao.

Of course, at this time, there is no difference in the status of the two heirs to the throne, so every time they enter the palace to perform the memorial ceremony, they are on an equal footing, but one day there is one' Chaos', when the two princes had just finished crying and preparing to go home, the Empress Dowager suddenly sent a eunuch out to convey the decree, saying that she wanted to leave His Royal Highness the Empress Dowager to accompany the Empress Dowager to dine together, if it is placed in normal times, this matter is not a big deal at all, you must know that the Empress Dowager is the grandson of the Empress Dowager, and this year's age is only fifteen years old, as a grandmother, it is absolutely understandable to give some kindness and love, but unfortunately, this news was immediately detected by the eunuch who was bribed by the Crown Prince and immediately conveyed the report, so Prime Minister Xia Guoxiang and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince were extremely nervous, and immediately went to the palace to question the Empress Dowager。

Logically speaking, this kind of questioning is a bit funny, and there is no need for any reason for 'milk' and 'milk' to have a meal or play ball with her grandson; But politically, it's not funny at all.

But unfortunately, the empress dowager did not realize this at all, and was furious with the crown prince and the prime minister on the spot, and ordered the personal eunuch to drive them out of the palace.

So the coup began, Xia Guoxiang and the crown prince fled from Changsha City overnight under extreme panic, rushed to the Yueyang military camp, and issued an edict the next day, announcing that "the Great Zhou is unfortunate, the 'traitor' minister is 'chaotic' country, and there is Xiaobai's run (Note, Xiaobai, that is, Jiang Xiaobai, Qi Huan Gong. Today, the crown prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty should be Zhen, the first emperor's edict, "Meng" heaven invited luck, dial the "chaos" anyway, the same day to ascend the throne as the emperor "Yunyun, and the general of the Shangguo Zhu Ma Bao also immediately reacted, the imperial grandson Wu Shiwan immediately ascended the throne in the capital Changsha with the support of the empress dowager, announcing that Xia Guoxiang and Wu Yingzhen and others were "'chaotic' ministers and thieves, coveting great treasures, and bringing disaster to the country and the people", and called on "the people of the world to punish them." ”

According to Buddhist theory, it is not surprising that this kind of incident occurred in the Southern Zhou Dynasty, according to the actions of His Majesty Wu Sangui, it is too light to suffer this kind of retribution, but this kind of domestic violence obviously makes the courtiers of the royal family a little confused, in fact, although both sides are trying their best to win over their subordinates, most of the courtiers still choose to wait and see, in the end this kind of thing is too risky, if it is not really no way, no one is willing to rashly bet the only bet up.

Gao Dajie, the general of the Jiangxi garrison in the Southern Zhou Dynasty, announced that he would respond to the call of Xia Guoxiang and accept the leadership of the crown prince, and the Sun Yanling Department of Guangxi and the Hu Guozhu Department of Yunnan announced their allegiance to Changsha, but the officials and garrisons in most areas of Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei and other provinces were silent and put on an attitude of riding the wall.

The biggest opponent has a civil 'strife', this kind of thing is really a celebration of Beijing's foreheads, but at this time Lin Feng did not plan to immediately intervene in this matter, although he and the two emperors and emperors are relatives, and the two emperors and their wisties have sent love messages to the brother-in-law and sister-in-law for the first time Tear-jerking letterheads, but politically speaking, it is undoubtedly a very unwise thing to 'intervene' at this time, and taking a step back, even if he wants to 'intervene' immediately, it can only shout twice. Judging from the current military situation, the closest army to the border of the Southern Zhou Dynasty is only deployed on the border of Anhui and Jiangxi, and there are countless local warlords of the Qing Dynasty, large and small, in the middle, and it will take more than two months to kill them all the way.

According to the deployment of the General Staff, the task of the Lin Han Empire at this stage is not to drink the Yangtze River to defeat the Southern Zhou Dynasty at all, but to cut the braids of the two pseudo-Qing princes entrenched in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Just when Lin Feng was dispatching troops in a hurry, a report of 800 miles of fast horses suddenly came from far away in Shaanxi. Daniel Zhang, general of Anxi of the Great Han Dynasty, and Zhao Liangdong, general of Koubei, jointly signed a concert: A few days ago, Wang Fuchen, the general of the Han Dynasty of Southern Zhou, secretly sent people to the camp of General Anxi to ask for surrender.

Pull a hair and move the whole body, and Shenzhou is 'chaotic'.