Lu Ning's expected battle of Mino did not happen, and after the battle of Gujo Shrine, the people of Ono Castle scattered like trees, and they left Ono Castle one after another to return to China.

By the time the Kwantung coalition forces closed Ono Castle, Ono Castle had become an empty castle.

After more than a month, news came that Onobe went north to Echizen Province, expelled Echizensuke, and took the national division himself.

I heard that there were four or five thousand volunteers who followed him to the north.

Now, Ono Yoshiko is forced by the situation, knowing that he will not be able to escape the responsibility when he returns to Kyoto, and at the instigation of his clansmen and subordinates, he has also found a place to settle down, and the volunteers who follow him are naturally reluctant to return to their country like this, and go north to Echizen Country and get their own famous fields, which is more or less a substitute for their eastward crusade gathered under the banner of Ono Yoshiko.

However, at this time, Lu Ning was preparing to go to Luo with Kyoko Fukada.

Of course, Kyoko Fukada is now in Kamiraku, and she does not want to gain control of Kyoto and then establish the shogunate to obtain the name of dominating the world.

Not long ago, the Owari army forced the western neighbor of Ise Province to submit, and as a result, Kyoko Fukada ruled the Shikoku land of Owari, Mikawa, Ise, and the southern plains of Mino.

At this time, Emperor Murakami, who was suffering from internal and external troubles, died, of course, in the same year as history, just a few months earlier.

Emperor Ryosen, who was mentally ill, succeeded to the throne.

As in history, Fujiwara Minori persecuted Emperor Ryosen to become regent as Sekihaku and persuaded Emperor Ryosen to become a monk.

Unlike in history, Emperor Ryosen may have had a psychotic episode, or he may have been instigated by Minamoto Taka, because of the external factor of Qi people, it is obvious that Emperor Ryosen hopes to use it to counter Fujiwara Minori's influence.

A few days ago, Emperor Ryosen issued an edict and awarded Kyoko Fukada as the governor of the four countries of Nayan and Guanzhong

That's right, it was not Fujiwara Saitoshi, the son of Fujiwara Minori, that the position was awarded, but the position of Kyoko Fukada, Qimin's wife.

Although it is not uncommon for a female emperor to be in Japan, it is a shocking move to confer the position of female minister and lead the secretary of state of Shikoku.

I'm afraid that only Emperor Cold Spring, a psychopath, can do it.

Of course, Emperor Ryosen must have a master behind him, and he took advantage of the relationship between Kyoko Fukada and the Qi people, his ambitions, and the conflict between his husband and his family.

And this master, in fact, is the right minister Minamoto Takamei, when Ono Yoshiko's army was defeated, Emperor Murakami died, and the left minister Fujiwara Minori was advancing step by step, in order to survive, Gen Takaaki had to change his course and use the influence of the Qi people to counter Fujiwara Minori.

In fact, Yuan Gaoming's idea was also inspired by his staff, and his staff had a close relationship with the East China Sea Baixing in private.

But in any case, if it weren't for Emperor Lengsen's congenital mental illness, or for the instigation of Gen Gaoming, there would not have been such a shocking edict.

In the edict, Kyoko Fukada was summoned to Beijing at the same time to discuss state affairs and share the worries of His Majesty the Emperor.

Under the frequent overtures of the Qi people to Kyoto, Emperor Ryosen also allowed the Qi people to set up an embassy in Kyoto.

Obviously, the royalists also had a strong sense of crisis, and if they did not get the support of the Qi people, it would be possible for them to be overthrown and a new emperor would be appointed, regardless of whether the emperor was a puppet or not.

In order to maintain the emperor's eternal unity, there was an urgent need for the recognition and support of the Qi people, and the friendly signals sent by the Qi people to Kyoto repeatedly affirmed that the Emperor of the Central Plains recognized the legitimacy of the Japanese king and recognized the land boundaries of Japan.

Although the implicit meaning is that the land that the Great Qi did not recognize, such as the land of Kanto, was not the land of Japan in the past.

But in a hurry, the current life-saving straw of the royalists does not have much choice except for the Central Plains Dynasty.

For Kamiraku, Kyoko Fukada is also hesitant, worried about whether there will be danger.

However, after the Kyoto Shoya's envoy appointed by Daiki arrived in Owari from Shinki Castle, Kyoko Fukada's doubts were dispelled.

She went to Luo to relieve the emperor's worries, and at the same time took on the important task of escorting the Qi envoys to Beijing, so that the Qi people were also expressing their firm support for her.

At the same time, it should be that seeing her increasing use value, Donghai Baixing has expanded the mercenary regiment that supports her, the Flying Falcon Regiment, to a scale of 1,000 people.

It's still the same, a capable soldier selected from the samurai corps in the east, and retired from the army to join the Falcon Regiment.

At the same time, he agreed to help Kyoko Fukada expand the new army to 2,000 people as a standing army and help with training.

This made Kyoko Fukada a little incredible.

At least in this case, it means that the Qi people do not intervene in the war, and it is more than enough for them to keep their land in the four countries.

This is still, but it is an overestimation of the combat effectiveness of the Qi mercenaries.

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On the soft couch in the study, which resembled the Central Plains, Lu Ning looked at a secret letter in his hand and fell into deep thought.

The two secret letters from Bianjing were written by Yongning, and the other was written by Concubine Xian.

Yongning's letter is a thick dozen pages, and it is customary to list the major domestic events of the last three months.

Among them, the most eye-catching position is the northwest thing.

Zhao Kuangyin moved the army and the people to the west, and it is said that he married with the Tubo tribes in the Demasi Department, skillfully seized and forced by force, and got the title of the king of Demasi, and now Zhao Kuangyin is the king of Tang and the king of Demasi.

Lu Ning faintly felt that it was a bit like the West, and this legal model was also quite interesting.

And the Department of Demasi is already the hinterland of Qinghai in later generations.

It feels good, now that a large number of soldiers and civilians in the Central Plains have settled down and sprouted, Zhao Kuangyin has done a good thing, but it has suffered these soldiers and civilians who have gone first, after all, it is an absolute wild place.

This is also because, seeing that after the heavy troops were stationed in Lanzhou and Liangzhou, the Qingtang City could not be defended at all, so it could only advance westward again.

However, the focus of Yongning's letter is naturally not to describe this, but to say that he may have heard of a rebellion in northern Liao, so Zhao Kuangyin was ready to move, colluded with the Ganzhou Uighurs, and frequently attacked the territory of the Guiyi army.

Returned to the righteous army Cao's family, and wrote a letter asking for support.

After agreeing with the cabinet members, Yongning was already preparing to move troops in the northwest to attack Qingtang City and the Uighur land of Ganzhou.

Yongning even said that he had to be frank with the seven most important cabinet ministers that the emperor had conquered Japan under a pseudonym.

Although these ministers have a spectrum in their hearts, they are also immediately relieved and full of words, saying that our emperor is the holy monarch of 10,000 years, and has expanded the Central Plains to an unprecedented situation.

What's more, it's no wonder that just 10,000 tribal soldiers can split the land of Japan and take its essence.

They all asked the historians, and after the war was pacified, after the return of the emperor, he recorded this truthfully, and said, in the past, the Son of Heaven in the Central Plains was so happy that he often greedy for the merits of the heavens in his own name.

These tidbits Yongning wrote in great detail, and I can see Lu Ning.

And now that this letter has arrived in his hands, I think about it, the northwest is already carrying out a general mobilization for war.

Of course, such a major military aircraft matter still has to be decided by oneself, and Yongning is also waiting for his reply.

Anyway, there is no harm in being well prepared, and if you don't allow your reply, the vigorous mobilization for war will turn into an exercise, and there is no harm in your reply.

After thinking about it, Lu Ning nodded, but still agreed.

If you don't drive the expedition yourself, the small Ganzhou Uighurs in the northwest and the remnants of Zhao Kuangyin will not be able to move?

It can't, let it swallow up the Guiyi Army.

In fact, although the Uighurs are not small today, it is mainly the Xizhou Uighurs who are more powerful, that is, the Uighurs in Xinjiang in later generations.

The Uighurs of Ganzhou and Suzhou were the lands of Gansu in later generations, and there were many Han people, so it was time to take them back.

The world is so big, if you have to do everything yourself, although the results may be better, and the soldiers of this army may sacrifice less, but there will always be a time when you lack skills.

It's time for this huge empire to move forward by inertia, regardless of whether it is involved in it or not.

However, if the Qingtang City was conquered, it was renamed Xining, and the Uighur land of Ganzhou was renamed Gansu Province for governance.

I have to write this point in my reply, and it is also a little commemoration and obsession of my own future generations.

pondering, Lu Ning looked back again.

The rest is what Yongning thinks is a trivial matter, such as the rebellion in northern Liao, although it has not yet been quelled, but the war is progressing smoothly.

In the land of Annam, the Red Tiger Army curbed the expansion momentum of the Ding Commandery.

In addition, in Champa, Daqi set up the first upper embassy of the southeast sea, and leased the land of the thousand-year contract to build a port, as a supply point for Qi merchants and naval armies in the south.

At the same time, the trade of Cham Huohuo oil was also monopolized by Qi merchants, and most of the production areas of Menghuo oil were mined by Baixing in the East China Sea.

Champa is the southern region of Vietnam in later generations, and now the land of Annam in northern Vietnam are two completely different regions, Annam is close to the Central Plains and has always been the territory of the Central Plains, and the Cham country, the land of southern Vietnam, has always been a foreign country.

Looking at these, Lu Ning nodded secretly, and was quite relieved in his heart, this huge empire was indeed running at a high speed according to his own plan.

After reading Yongning's letter, he picked up Concubine Xian's letter and opened it, Lu Ning was slightly stunned.

In the letter of Zhesaihua, in addition to greeting her husband, there is actually one thing, saying that Queen Yongning, who seems to be in poor health recently, does not listen to her own persuasion, and when she asks the lord to reply to the letter, she tells her not to work too hard.

Lu Ning looked at this letter, and his first thought was, is Saihua trying to fight for power? So wrote such a letter.

Subsequently, Lu Ning was very ashamed, he was really changed now, his reflexive thoughts were dark and narrow-minded, full of thoughts, and he couldn't do without the struggle for power.

Think about it, the woman who has a skin-to-skin relationship with herself, as if her body has changed a little, and her youth is eternal, Gan and You Wu have followed themselves for more than ten years, and their faces are still as radiant as ten years ago, and even more gorgeous.

And I don't like to get sick anymore.

However, whether it will really make them healthy and avoid all diseases, this should not be.

Saihua wrote a letter in her own handwriting, which shows that Yongning's health must have a lot of problems, otherwise, he would not have repaired the book alone.

Thinking about it, Lu Ning couldn't sit still any longer, so he hurriedly picked up a pen and paper and replied.