Today's weather was good, the wind and rain were smooth, and the Han territory had a bumper harvest again, and in just half a month, the newly collected taxes filled the treasury that had been lost due to the war. Since Lin Feng entered Beijing, this is the third bumper harvest, and basically there is no drought and flood disaster, which is really a very strange thing, because as far as Lin Feng knows, this part of China is not very good in terms of living conditions, natural disasters are very frequent, and just more than ten years before his Eight Banners entered the customs, this land is like a crazy disaster, and finally the Ming Dynasty that has been hanging for two hundred years has been alive and dead, but after the establishment of the Lin Han Empire, the climate suddenly cooled down, soothing this huge agricultural empire.

Although I don't know the reason, but this does not prevent the people from the resulting sense of security, since the harvest of the warehouse, basically the Shilin north of the Yellow River began to realize this problem, although there are still some scientific and technological progress in the seventeenth century, but the dark ignorance is still the mainstream, so the climate, celestial phenomena are easy to pull in with the country's ruling institutions, according to the ancient tradition, Lin Feng is undoubtedly the so-called "true master" - although from the military Lin Han court has achieved this effect, but as far as a state power is concerned, Her legitimacy and popular acceptance have deepened over time, not because a momentary military might equate to the legitimacy of the regime, but this successive agricultural harvest has made up for it. The so-called "divine right of the monarch", it is definitely not just a few famous Confucians, red mouths and white teeth, in the final analysis, it also depends on the rice jar in the people's homes.

At the same time as the good news of the harvest came, tens of millions of subjects of the Han Empire finally had the goal to fight for - in the summer of 1686 AD, the Han princess finally gave birth to a son for His Royal Highness the King of Han. Lin Feng never thought that the influence of a certain pregnant woman could reach this level, just the day before Wu Ake gave birth, a large number of civil and military generals such as Li Guangdi, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, the chief of staff of the Han army, and Chen Menglei, the imperial history of the inspection capital, actually let go of government affairs and gathered outside the palace of the Han Dynasty, waiting for the news of the birth of the little prince, and what surprised Lin Feng even more was that Li Guangdi, a Taoist gentleman, would seriously order the selection of a famous midwife, and when the news of the little prince's successful birth reached the front hall, at Li Guangdi's proposal, Lin Feng sat at the top, and the ministers shouted long live, as if they had won a war.

The next thing was that Lin Feng could not refuse, and Lord Li Guangdi splashed ink on the spot, drafted the edict of changing the yuan, and at the same time granted amnesty to the world.

This move of the Han army had a huge impact on China's political situation, Henan Yang Qilong was the first to send an envoy to congratulate after hearing the news, and then the envoys of the Eastern 'Mongolian' ancient Korqin Bulyagema, Taiwan's Zheng Jing, and the Korean Li Dynasty also came one after another, to Lin Feng's surprise, the Governor of the Kingdom of Portugal in Australia and the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of the Netherlands East India Company also rushed to help, although these foreigners in Southeast Asia did not know about Lin Feng's son, and the so-called "messengers" were mostly the staff of the Tianjin office. As for whether it can actually represent a country, the legal status is still debatable.

As far as the foreign 'friendship' circle of the Lin Han Empire in the current era is concerned, only the Southern Zhou Wu Sangui Dynasty, the Western 'Mongolian' Guzungar Khanate and the Russian Empire have not yet come to express their political positions. Therefore, what is really worth seriously speculating about is the Southern Zhou Wu Sangui regime.

According to reliable sources from the Ya'men' of the Ordnance and Grain Statistics, His Majesty Wu Sangui, the Emperor of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, has now been in bed for more than half a year, and last year's large-scale war against Guangxi almost exhausted all his 'fine' strength, and when the Southern Zhou army officially exterminated the remnants of the rebels of the puppet Qing Dynasty and included the entire Guangxi Province, the famous military commander immediately collapsed, and his health continued to deteriorate. Since October last year, His Majesty Wu Sangui has not been in the court for more than eight months, and he has not been awake for more than two hours every day, and all he can do is to listen to the ministers read one or two chapters, and then shake their heads or blink to indicate whether they are sealed with seals.

So in this situation, the Southern Zhou Dynasty has not carried out any major military operations since last year, and the court is divided into two factions, Prime Minister Xia Guoxiang and Shangguozhu General Ma Bao, because of the relationship between the emperor's throne, respectively, supporting Wu Sangui's two grandsons, recruiting and buying and selling ministers from all sides, just waiting for Lin Feng's father-in-law to swallow his breath.

Because of the direct in-law relationship of the royal family, it is absolutely impossible for a 'daughter' son-in-law to give birth to a son without saying hello to his father-in-law, so when the little prince fell to the ground, the envoy of the Han army court immediately set sail by boat and went to Changsha by sea to report the good news.

As expected, when His Majesty Wu Sangui heard the news of his grandson's landing, he almost didn't say anything, and the envoy even wondered if he still remembered that a 'daughter' had married to the north, and the two adults, Xia Guoxiang and Ma Bao, in contrast to the emperor's cold performance, showed a high degree of enthusiasm to the Han army envoys, and respectively conveyed some vague but unusually affectionate messages to Lin Feng, and at the same time, the emperor's two grandsons also gave a large number of gifts to the "little uncle" who had not met. However, intimacy returned to intimacy, but the envoy received a cold reception at the minister of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, so that the task of establishing 'diplomatic relations' could not be achieved.

As we all know, a year ago, His Royal Highness the King of Han had accepted the pardon of the Great Zhou court, so according to the rules, Lin Feng should be the emperor's 'daughter' and courtier, for this concept Several ministers of the Southern Zhou Dynasty who read poetry and books gave two explanations, one explanation is "foreign domain", which roughly means that Wu Sangui is equivalent to the emperor of the Central Plains in history, and Lin Feng belongs to the Xiongnu Shan Yu or the Turkic wolf lord and the like; The second explanation is that the clan of foreign relatives, if you find teaching materials from history books, you can compare it with Liang Ji or Wang Mang, anyway, it is not a good thing. Therefore, now the King of Han dared to build a Yuan Dynasty and change his name to amnesty the world when the Great Zhou Dynasty was "like the sun in the sky", which is simply a naked and "naked" act of rebellion, and should be severely punished.

This remark was approved by most of the ministers of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, although most of them felt a little unbelievable about Lin Feng as a "barbarian" and the Central Plains as a "land outside the country", but this did not hinder their position, you must know that this issue is the "orthodox" dispute of China's imperial power, which belongs to the most core principle issue, which cannot be compromised in any way, although the ministers have been influenced by Confucian scholarship for a long time, but after all, they are still politicians, you must know that for politicians, Conscience and scholarship themselves are meant to be sold, and profit is the criterion that really determines judgment.

However, speech is speech, position is position, as far as the current situation is concerned, it is definitely not a wise thing to turn the face with the Han army immediately, as far as the military point of view, although the generals of the Southern Zhou Dynasty have always been more conceited, but in the end there is still no dare to pat the 'chest' to guarantee that the Han army can defeat the Han army, since Lin Feng defeated Geerdan, the Han army's reputation of "riding 'shooting'" is known all over the world, even the "female" Zhenhe' The ancient capital of Mongolia was castrated by the Han army, and it is hard to imagine who else could bargain for anything on the battlefield; and from the economic point of view, the major provinces under the rule of the Southern Zhou Dynasty were greatly damaged in the previous war, and the current financial constraints, even to appease the displaced people, persuade the peasants to open up the wasteland, and the only signature commodity tea trade was also monopolized by the Jin and Hui Chamber of Commerce of the Han army, although the Southern Zhou Dynasty did not think of organizing their own commercial activities before, but under the oppression of the Taiwan fleet and the remnants of the puppet Qing Dynasty, almost no results were received. So this matter made the Southern Zhou Dynasty and the opposition hesitate, and what was even more terrifying was that this originally very legitimate national policy quickly evolved into the fuse of the Xia Guoxiang and Ma Bao factions, and later, with the expansion of debate and struggle, this matter itself seemed to be less important, and it completely became the target of the two factions.

After being kicked like a ball for a few rounds, the poor Han envoy had no choice but to return to Beijing, accompanied by only a paper and a half edict and half a 'private' letterhead of the foreign 'handover' document, it is undeniable that the Jiangnan region is indeed a place for the production of literati, this letterhead is very accurate, the rhetoric is beautiful, fair and long, around the Han king, the Han princess, the little prince of the harmonious and happy family life was warmly praised and praised, A great blessing to the smooth friendship between the Lin Han Empire and the Southern Zhou Dynasty, in addition to some vague exclamations, it can really be described as a model of eight shares, but the only pity is that others don't know what the person who wrote the article means after reading it.

However, of course, this kind of small trick is impossible to be the Han Prime Minister Li Guangdi, this half-official document and half-letterhead thing was immediately archived by the Ministry of Rites of the Han Dynasty, and copied to the ministries, after some deletion and processing, it was publicized on many occasions to the messengers who came to congratulate the people to read, according to the official explanation of Lord Li Guangdi, this sealed "kiss" cordial "national letter" is the Southern Zhou Emperor's recognition of the legitimacy of the Han Dynasty's change of the Yuan Dynasty's name, and expresses the intimate relationship between the Lin Han Dynasty and the Southern Zhou Dynasty's "Weng and son-in-law". Therefore, this letter of state, like the envoys of the princes, expresses the recognition and congratulations of all Chinese people to the Lin Han Empire.

Although certain results have been achieved in foreign 'communication', everyone in the Han army knows that the day when the Han King ascends the throne and becomes the emperor is not far away, and if Lin Feng ascends the throne as the emperor, it is absolutely impossible to close the 'door' to call the boss like the kind of wreckage in the history books, according to the military strength and national strength of the Lin Han military group at the moment, if Lin Feng once he is called the emperor, then at least let the eastern 'Meng' ancient Horqin, Henan Yang Qilong, Shandong Zhao Shenqiao submit, and the entire north of the Yellow River will be included under the direct rule of the Han Empire.

This is a complex and unfathomable thing, although Yang Qilong's peasant rebel army has always had a good relationship with the Han army, but this does not mean that he will surrender to Lin Feng, obediently become a minister, Yang Qilong has never concealed his ambitions before, and openly played the banner of "the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty to restore the country", it is conceivable that now Lin Feng is the king should be the bottom line he can bear, if he is the emperor, I am afraid that it is likely to raise troops against each other; In addition, the Eastern 'Mongolian' ancient Korqin is also salty and indistinct with the empire, sometimes good and sometimes bad, at the moment the quasi-Gelgeldan is not destroyed, and the two sides will not start a large-scale war for the time being, but this is only temporary, now people with a little political acumen can see that the Han and the Eastern 'Mongolian' ancient Korqin will fight sooner or later, and compared to other wars, it is still the most cruel and undying racial war.

In view of this, Lin Feng now puts almost all of his 'fine' strength on the military, and now the civil affairs matters in the Han court are almost decided by Li Guangdi alone, except for major policies such as summer harvest, imperial examination, relief, and river work, Lin Feng does not look at other excerpts at all, and completely entrusts Li Guangdi's prime minister's cabinet. Now that the summer harvest has just ended, the General Staff Headquarters has immediately begun to carry out the reorganization and expansion of the army.

In the war in Shanxi last year, the main force of the Han army's 'elite' suffered heavy casualties, especially the general Ma Yingbu, the general Zhao Liangdong of Koubei and the general Ruike of Yulin were the most, among which the casualties of Ma Ying's troops were even more than one-half, because Ma Ying ordered the slaughter of the relationship between the captives, Geerdan's cowardly Xue army was trapped in the Dingxiang area, and the cavalry army responsible for the pursuit of the sixth army fought hard day and night, and finally beheaded more than 11,000 people under the reinforcement of the second guard cavalry army, behind this brilliant result, It was Ma Ying's Sixth Cavalry Corps that suffered more than half of the casualties and lost a large number of experienced officers and veterans.

Therefore, after Lin Feng returned to the army, these troops with heavy casualties were immediately pulled back to the garrison for repair, General Ma Ying almost did not stay in Beijing, and the cavalry army went straight around Beijing and withdrew to Liaodong, and recruited soldiers from Liao people and other tribes locally to supplement the military strength lost in the war, in addition, the 10,000 thousands of captive soldiers captured in Shanxi were also dismantled and disbanded, and they were grouped into various armies, but after the bloody battle, most of these captive soldiers were very hostile to the Han army, and they were not brainwashed for a long time, so they naturally could not be used with confidence.

In the process of this large-scale reorganization of the army, Lin Feng once again threw out a new expansion plan, that is, the troops of the guards directly under the king of Han were expanded from the original three armies to five armies, namely two infantry corps, one artillery corps, and one cavalry corps, and the strength of the army was expanded from the original 30,000 to more than 58,000 people, and the entire Zhili Province was included in the defense area of the royal guards.

In addition, the Anhui Yuan Green Battalion surrendered army proved to be loyal and reliable in this southern front operation, issued the title of the Ninth Army of the Han Infantry, appointed Yang Wei Zhonglang General Zhou Qiu as the army commander, 'drawn' officers from Mazhuang Wuxue, and reorganized the unit; another Ganxi Governor's Office was established, Anxi General Daniel Zhang was appointed as the governor of the Great Han Ganshan Prefecture, and Zhang Ying, the former Cao Cao official of the Ministry of Ceremonies, was transferred to the post of Shaanxi Governor, and more than 28,000 infantry were organized into the Seventh Han Infantry Army and the Tenth Han Infantry Army, with more than 6,000 war horses and 120 artillery pieces More than 500 staff officers were supplemented, and Zhao Liangdong's division of the Fifth Infantry Army was transferred to Daniel Zhang's command, and several fortress barracks were built in northwest Shaanxi to deal with the ancient army of Ma Harrier in Sichuan and Geerdan's Western 'Mongolian'.

Therefore, after the reorganization, the regular army units of the Han army were organized into 15 corps, including local garrisons in various places, with a total strength of more than 225,000 people, including more than 50,000 cavalry, more than 30,000 artillerymen, and more than 140,000 musket infantry. According to the military system of the Han Dynasty, farming during agricultural time, training in leisure time, and sending officers to master the equipment of the troops, after the inventory, the General Staff Department published a total of more than 1246,000 people, so up to now, the Lin Han Dynasty has become the first military power in East Asia in terms of troops, training, and equipment.