The date of the emperor's official arrival in Beijing is the end of November, at this time the northern 'traffic' situation is very unsatisfactory, the ice and snow are all over the mud, generally in this season but where there is surplus food in the north people will choose the cat winter, although the window paper pierced the window paper and looked out at the mountain dance silver snake is very poetic, but it is another thing to go to the official road.

Together with the officers and soldiers, nearly 80,000 horses and horses vigorously marched towards the north, and after the people along the way were disturbed to death, Lin Feng and his wife and children finally returned to Beijing.

This is undoubtedly a thing worth celebrating for the Lin Han Empire, to be honest, if this matter is not too much, the ministers of the court do not want to interfere in the emperor's 'private' life, in fact, after several years of struggle, most of the courtiers including Li Guangdi, Zhou Peigong have seen through the soft bones of Lin Feng, according to our traditional Chinese concept, the queen's actions can definitely be regarded as "angry and resentful", fierce According to the current marriage and family law of the empire, the emperor should have been seriously hurt in legal theory, at least it violated the hard "sex" regulations of "seven outs", it can be said that most of the imperial subjects are sympathetic to the emperor's marriage, and the general public opinion thinks: needless to say, it is the royal family in the mother's world, even in an ordinary family, just by virtue of this "good jealousy", then this wife must be divorced.

What is surprising, though, is the attitude of the emperor himself. Here, including the closest people around the emperor, the vast majority of subjects are extremely 'confused' and 'confused' by this.

Emperor Lin Feng's image in the folk is quite good, since the beginning of the army, invincible, invincible, all the way to sweep the gods to block and kill the gods and Buddhas, no matter what enemy is all bombarded to the scum, and historically, the self-made emperor who can dominate the world before the age of thirty is almost the only one without a semicolon, so from this point of view, even if the enemy of the empire, even if it is bitter hatred, he has to admit the emperor's wisdom and martial arts, Therefore, most people subconsciously think that Lin Feng is a hero, and the heroes in the traditional Chinese concept basically have to meet the following conditions: very smart, and very courageous, and the most important thing is that he is definitely a tough guy, and Taishan collapses in front of him without blinking his eyelids. No matter what critical things are encountered, they usually shout: "Don't panic, I'm not afraid of everything," arrogant and dry, regard brothers as siblings, regard wives as clothes, and casually cut off hundreds of thousands of heads without changing the 'color', all in all, there will never be such a thing as being afraid of his wife.

But this time it turned a big corner, in the Han Empire, the emperor's fear of his wife can basically be regarded as an open secret, including the fact that the emperor was beaten on the wedding night is also circulating everywhere, many people have analyzed this strange phenomenon, and the reasons given are strange, but none of them can be convincing.

In history, there are not no emperors who are afraid of their wives, but in most cases, it is because their relatives are too strong, and the emperor has to be a man with his tail between his legs, but Emperor Lin Feng is too peculiar like this, as far as Empress Ake is concerned, if it is said that the era of the Southern Zhou Dynasty was strong a few years ago, it is reasonable, but now I can't say it, you must know that almost all the relatives of the empire have been killed by the emperor, and the remaining few kittens and puppies are trembling in the nest, and they definitely dare not 'mess' and say 'mess', basically just something" These guys will be pushed out to cut their mothers immediately, so it is absolutely impossible for a relative like this to give the queen any support.

So in this case, the only comforting thing is the emperor's character, at least everyone should not worry about the sudden appearance of a group of eunuchs that day to rob the show 'girl' door to door, in traditional Chinese morality, bad 'lust' is a gentleman's behavior, so from this point of view, Emperor Lin Feng can be compared with Yanagi Hui.

Because of the queen's reasons, there are serious problems in the current imperial heir, although the crown prince Lin Xuan has always been in good health, but no one dares to guarantee that one day this little guy will hang, you must know that in terms of the medical standard in the seventeenth century, the infant mortality rate of children is high.

And the most worrying thing is that the emperor himself seems to be a bachelor, and he doesn't seem to even have a minimum of relatives, to say something unpleasant, if one day the father and son are stewed by someone, just for the chair of the Qianyuan Palace, this empire is afraid that at least 10 million more people will die.

To be fair, this is not a very interesting thing, it is a major political event that is really related to the stability and unity of the empire, and in this regard, Lin Feng's refusal to engage in 'female' people is not a virtue, but a crime against this country and this nation.

The turning point came after the return of the southern tour. Almost at the same time as the emperor's return to Beijing, a delegation of tribute envoys sent by the Kingdom of Korea followed suit.

Unlike the previous routine tributes, this time the envoys of the Kingdom of Korea were much larger in terms of rank and scale.

It is worth sympathizing with the fact that the status of the Korean Kingdom in the eyes of the central government of the empire has been declining in recent years, to be honest, it can be said that there is absolutely no official in Beijing who can say a word in Beijing now, and there is absolutely no one who will look at them squarely, compared with the original Ming Empire, now the empire's social 'communication' circle has expanded a lot, and the vision is much clearer than before, at least since the establishment of foreign 'friendship' relations with the Rakshasa country, permanent ambassador, there are very few people on formal occasions' It's a big deal, at least now everyone knows that there are still a lot of big countries outside, and you can casually find a few who can fight with the big man. The expansion of the horizon of the DPRK directly affects the status of North Korea, in the past, everyone still felt that the DPRK was still quite important, absolutely not negligent, but now it seems that it is a bunch of hillbillies, there is no such thing as him, and in the eyes of most people, with the current strength of the Han Empire, no matter what trouble happens, directly from Liaodong troops, sea and land together, this pile of hillbillies can be destroyed within a month.

In the state of the Central Empire's self-confidence is extremely inflated, the life of North Korea has become more and more difficult, in this Korean people infinitely miss the great and magnanimous Ming Empire, what a warm era, the allies are like mothers to take care of that small peninsula, relatively speaking, this Han Empire is simply more barbaric than the Tartars, not even the least of the face, every time I go back to pay tribute, the tribute is actually a fucking big grin, a routine reward for thousands of years' The astonishing greed and shamelessness of the Mao's astonishing greed and shamelessness shocked the entire kingdom and was nothing short of a blasphemy against the civilization of East Asia for thousands of years.

However, dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and foreign 'relations' return to foreign 'relations', this kind of indifferent treatment has caused a serious sense of crisis in the Korean kingdom, you must know that for hundreds of years, North Korea has been dependent on China to survive, and now it has suddenly lost its backers, and the whole country suddenly has a feeling of abandonment.

Now, whether culturally, economically, politically and militarily, the Han Empire is the leader of the Confucian cultural community in East Asia, and the distance from the boss's foreign 'diplomacy' directly determines the status of this circle, and if it falls out of favor, the consequences are simply unimaginable.

In order to salvage the situation, this time the Korean kingdom finally came up with a trick.

Accompanying the envoys into Beijing was a 16-year-old girl. Her official status is "Lord Shudeok", the eldest 'daughter' of the current king of the Joseon Kingdom, Yi Yun. This time, she shouldered the hopes of the people of the whole country and traveled long distances to come to Beijing in this icy and snowy season to seek benefits for her motherland and people.

According to the custom inherited from the Ming Dynasty, the marriage between the Kingdom of Korea and China was one of the means of foreign 'diplomacy' under normal conditions. So when they heard the news, the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Cabinet didn't feel very strange, and there didn't even seem to be any reason to refuse.

The posture of the Korean kingdom is very low, about the status of this Shude county lord, it is determined that 'sex' is a "tribute", and the general meaning of the national book is: this county lord is in terms of 'sex' nature, and those ginseng, mink and other things are the same, is one of the tribute components of this tribute, if Lin Feng likes it, he can give a concubine the title, if he doesn't like it, it doesn't matter if he uses it as a servant palace 'girl', in short, the Korean people's admiration and loyalty to Lin Feng the Great is thousands of years and will never fade.

In fact, in the era of the Ming Empire, the 'female' people who paid tribute from North Korea, as long as they were the king's 'female', would generally get a decent court title, of course, the queen and concubine and the like should not even think about it.

When Lin Feng officially got this report, the time was already the end of November 1690, and there were several copies of the credentials handed over together with the Kingdom of Korea, unexpectedly, this year's Beijing seemed to be very lively, in addition to the Korean Kingdom that came to worship every year, Japan, the Netherlands, England, Portugal, Hou Li (note: Hou Li Dynasty, that is, Vietnam), Burma and other countries all sent envoys to the Han Empire, and it is a bit funny that everyone played the name of "Congratulations to the New Year".

It can be seen that the process of unification of the Han Empire should have received widespread attention from many countries, and in fact the political and military situation in China was already very clear in May 1690, but most people did not expect the Southern Zhou Dynasty to fall so quickly. Therefore, as soon as the Southern Zhou Dynasty was destroyed, the surrounding countries immediately rushed to Beijing non-stop, nominally to congratulate the 'Spring Festival', but in fact to establish formal state relations with this new empire.

Among the many envoys, Japan was a little different this time. This time, the Japanese ambassador to China was Lin Feng's old acquaintance Kira Yoshio, compared with the envoys of other countries, the lineup of the foreign 'diplomatic mission' under his leadership was extremely large, in addition to the many political attachés, there were actually a large number of thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenagers, according to the report of the Imperial Ministry of Rites, in addition to further consolidating the alliance between the Han Empire and the shogunate, another main purpose of Japan's envoy to the Han Empire was to hope to obtain the emperor's permission. Let this group of noble children of the shogunate study abroad in the Jingshi Guozijian, the Imperial Law and Calculation University, the Mazhuang Army Officer Academy, the Baoding Non-commissioned Officer Teaching School, the Tianjin Naval Academy, and the "Oriental Theological Academy" presided over by Nan Huairen.

In the past few years, relations between the Lin Han Empire and Japan have progressed by leaps and bounds, and immediately after the Kira envoy, Beijing and Edo have begun formal official negotiations and reached a series of foreign diplomatic agreements. On September 11, 1688, the Lin Han Empire and the Edo Shogunate of Japan formally signed the "Gengzi Age Treaty" in Nagasaki, known as the "Han-Japan Trade Cooperation Treaty", in which China and Japan established long-term and stable foreign relations for the first time, agreed to be each other's permanent ambassadors, and formed political and military alliances, the two most important of which are: Japan's foreign trade is monopolized by the Han Empire, and the Han Empire's navy has the obligation to defend Japan's waters, and should cooperate with and assist the Edo Shogunate to complete it. National policy of locking down the country" and thoroughly eradicating the "sea bandits" who were active in the Sea of Japan for a generation.

In fact, before this, the Second Fleet of the Imperial Navy had already completely defeated the Shimazu bandits, occupied the Ryukyu Islands, and established a permanent 'sexual' military port, and continued to accept immigrants from Liaodong, Shandong and the coast of South China during these years, and by the time of the Sino-Japanese signing, the occupation of the Ryukyu Islands had basically been completely consolidated, and the local Ryukyu Kingdom accepted the canonization of Lin Feng, and the Ryukyu Kingdom servant army was 2,000 people, and the Admiralty of the Han Empire assisted in establishing, training and providing weapons and equipment, Most of the officers were from the Han Empire. With the establishment and consolidation of the naval base, with the Ryukyu Islands as the center, the Second Fleet of the Han Empire continued to search the surrounding waters, expel pirates, and monitor trade routes with Japan.

The Han Empire and Taiwan's Zheng Ching military bloc went from allies to estrangement, and then to sharp confrontations, and the contradictions in maritime trade were the main reasons. In fact, from 1686 onwards, the Second Fleet of the Navy and the Taiwan Fleet had a small-scale naval conflict, after which, the scale and intensity of the conflict increased year by year, and in 1689, the two sides officially began to fight, along the trade route from Fujian to Japan, the entire Han Imperial Navy, including Shi Lang's First Fleet and Yang Haisheng's Second Fleet, had many large-scale naval battles with the Taiwan Fleet, the most of which were ' There were three fierce battles, with more than 200 combat ships and more than 30,000 combat soldiers on both sides, but the navy of the Han Empire did not achieve victory in the three naval battles, but the Taiwan fleet did not open up the trade route with Japan, and the Taiwan fleet won because of its rich experience, the tactical ability of the officers and men of the fleet, the familiarity of the commanders of the warships with the battlefield, and the excellent personal ability; The Han Empire's navy, on the other hand, was superior to its opponents in terms of abundant supplies, sufficient supplies, large numbers, large numbers, and artillery 'nature' that surpassed its opponents, so the two sides had their own strengths and weaknesses, and were in a state of confrontation for a long time.

In the three naval battles, one of the battlefields was in the Sea of Japan, in this war, the Edo side had completely fallen to the Han Empire, the shogunate sailors participated in the operation as an allied force, although they could not intervene in the frontal battlefield because of weak forces, but the help provided in logistics supply, sea geography, climate, hydrological data and intelligence support was also not neglected, so after that, the imperial navy reciprocated, with the shogunate providing intelligence and the imperial navy acting as an executioner. The islands around the Sea of Japan were swept away in a dragnet manner, and under such a strong military attack, the Japanese pirates in various places along the way suffered a devastating blow, and many of the "samurai families" who had been living from pirates since the Ming Empire were wiped out. According to the policy of the Edo side, all Japanese who were outside the four islands of Japan would automatically be sentenced to death, and humane destruction could be given in law, so in the combat operation to exterminate Japanese pirates, according to the request of close allies, the navy of the Han Empire strictly implemented the policy of taking prisoners, basically killing one place and three lights everywhere, leaving no one alive, and using their own practical actions to prove the sincere friendship of the people of the Han Empire to the industrious and kind Japanese people.

In the midst of this series of political-military cooperation, Beijing and Edo entered a very harmonious honeymoon period. In recent years, the Edo shogunate under the leadership of General Tokugawa Gangyoshi can be said to have raised its eyebrows, and the policy of "borrowing troops to help suppress" has achieved unprecedented success, and under the support of the cannons and bayonets of the naval fleet of the Han Empire, the daimyo from all over the country have obeyed and expressed to Edo Masa: The Yamato nation in the past, present, and future will be united under the great leadership of Tokugawa Shogun, and any disloyalty against Tokugawa Shogun will be an enemy of the imperial state, and it will be "condemned by the whole world".

Even Satsuma and Choshu, which had always been unruly, sent letters of allegiance to Edo, and the rule of the Edo shogunate was strengthened and consolidated like never before, and in 1689 the Japanese people finally got rid of the shadow of the Warring States period and officially entered a harmonious society.

After seeing the strength and wealth of the Han Empire, out of admiration and expectation, at the suggestion of Yoshio Kira, General Tokugawa Okamichi of the Edo Shogunate issued an order to select a group of teenagers among the children of the shogunate nobles, who would carry the hope of the future of the imperial kingdom and be sent to the Han Empire to study "Sinology".