Before Xiao Rui was in charge of the country, he went to the north for half a year and learned about the people's situation, but he had never been to the fourteen states of Anxi and the fourteen states of Anbei, which was the newly expanded territory of Great Xia, even if he was managed by Zhang Liang, Xiao He, and Ye Wendao, he could sit back and relax, but Xiao Rui, as the king of a country, also wanted to take a look.

This is like marrying a beautiful wife, it is said that the country is fragrant, but it is far away from the hometown, and you can only listen to how beautiful and beautiful, but you can't reach it, and you sigh with joy.

I think I can understand that eager mood.

And as Xiao Rui said, he has time now, the court is running stably inside and outside, the border is peaceful, and if he doesn't go to fight in the future, then Xiao Rui won't be able to go.

Of course, there are certain risks, after all, Xiao Rui has just ascended the throne, how can he tour the world in the second year of being the emperor, and he is not afraid that the throne will not sit firmly and let people pry.

Xiao Rui is really not afraid, now the patrol battalion is still in the hands of Zhang Jinfu, the loyal and brave marquis, and the city guard camp outside the city is in charge of Ye Xiu's son Ye Qiu, the two fathers and sons of the Ye family are loyal and brave people, and then push Guo Ziyi to the position of the secretary of the military department, everything is under Xiao Rui's control.

Before Emperor Xia abdicated, all the restless factors were solved, and Xiao Rui did not need to clean up from scratch, avoiding a long time to balance the layout, so Xiao Rui could happily and freely carry out his plan.

Li Yuanfang will probably be able to break through the super grade realm by the end of the year, and the Qinglian swordsman will need to stay in the palace to guard, so Xiao Rui will take Li Yuanfang, Gai Zinie, Wang Dazhi, and Jia Xu to go.

Wang Dazhi is also taking Dahuandan, his progress is slower than Li Yuanfang, and his age is there, it is difficult to enter the super product, but it should be no problem to become a half-step super product.

There are three masters to protect Xiao Rui, and with the safety guaranteed, it is natural that you can rest assured that you can make a private visit to the microservice. Originally, I was worried that Jia Xu would be lazy, but I didn't expect that I couldn't wait to follow, it seems that although the comfortable life is beautiful, but in addition to being dull, life should also have some waves to be magnificent.

After Xiao Rui left Jiafu, Jia Xu also changed into formal clothes and went to visit Huo Xingye.

Huo Xingye was also stunned when he heard that Jia Xu was visiting.

"How did he come! I don't know him well. Huo Xingye wondered, but then, his heart became worried.

Jia Xu is His Majesty's person, although he is now hanging a three-rank idle post, but everyone knows that he does not want to enter the court, otherwise, with his work from the dragon, it is not difficult to enter the cabinet to participate in political affairs.

Now that Jia Xu is visiting, it seems that it is His Majesty's intention.

"Your Majesty looks like you're going to move me." Huo Xingye sighed.

After speaking, Huo Xingye immediately got up to greet Jia Xu.

The two who were not familiar with each other exchanged a few words in front of the mansion, Huo Xingye warmly invited Jia Xu to enter the mansion for tea, and the two drank tea and chatted about gossip.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Jia Xu finally started his purpose of coming here, "I heard that when Lord Huo was young, he accompanied the Emperor Taishang to fight in the south and the north, and he was a brave general on the battlefield!" ”

Huo Xingye said with a smile: "Let Master Jia laugh, if you talk about the battlefield back then, who will be the opponent of King Ruyang and the military marquis, I am just a pawn, thanks to the emperor's refusal to give up, I can accompany the battle." ”

Jia Xu asked: "When people get older, they yearn for the years when they are young, does Master Huo have this idea?" ”

Huo Xingye was stunned for a moment, and heard the meaning of Jia Xu's words.

If he said that he did, then His Majesty probably meant to transfer himself out of Beijing as a military general, and if he said no, then naturally there was another place to go.

I supported the wrong person from the beginning, stood on the wrong team, His Majesty did not clean himself up directly, it was already benevolent and righteous, and now it depends on whether I know how to examine the degree.

"I have an idea, I want to go out and have a look, is Lord Jia willing to help?" Although Huo Xingye was unwilling, he still responded with a smile.

Jia Xu also smiled, Huo Xingye was indeed not simple, he didn't say anything when he came here, just a tentative word, he guessed all the circumstances, and accepted all the arrangements very simply. This is the smartest because you get the most bang for your buck.

"Since Lord Huo has spoken, Jia will naturally help. Originally, Jia had a lot of things to say in his heart, but now it seems that he doesn't need to. In fact, with Lord Huo's ability, even if he goes out to lead the troops, he is also a good general. Jia Xu replied.

Huo Xingye nodded.

On the second day, Huo Xingye took the initiative to visit His Majesty, feeling that he was incapable of being qualified for the position of secretary of the Ministry of War, and begged to resign from the position of secretary of the Ministry of War.

After Xiao Rui kept a few words, he agreed to Huo Xingye's request, originally wanted him to go to Ganzhou, but after thinking about it, he transferred him to Licheng Military Town, Fuzhou, to lead the soldiers and horses. Because Han Ming had already gone to Suzhou, the military affairs of Licheng Military Town were in charge of the general army, and now it was just right to send Huo Xingye there.

Immediately afterwards, Guo Ziyi, the left attendant of the Ministry of War, was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of War.

In this way, the arrangement of the cabinet and the six ministries was completely completed.

And the rest of the time flew by.

After the autumn equinox, it is winter.

Last time, Xiao Rui handed over the popular character of playing cotton to Yuan Yuan, and found something for her to do to make her life more exciting. And she is also conscientious, likes this job very much, and passes on the craft of playing cotton to women and children.

After the winter solstice, the weather plummeted, and the people planted cotton, at this time they all knew how to play cotton, talk about the cotton soft and fluffy, sew it in the lining of clothes, and wear it warmly.

The thermal insulation effect of cotton is better than cotton wool and catkins, and with cotton clothes, in the face of sudden temperature drops, the bleak eyebrows of previous years can also breathe a sigh of relief.

When the time comes to the heavy snow season, entering the harsh winter at the end of October, the temperature of the summer is estimated to be minus 20 degrees.

It is said that the Qi River is frozen, which can make Qin Huang happy, he immediately arranged for the Qin army to see if they can directly step on the ice to cross the river and attack Daxia, and the result made him very disappointed, although the Qi River is frozen, but the river is not closed, and the thickness of the ice is not thick, it can not support large-scale soldiers and horses, and the trampling of baggage.

Speaking of Qin, it is natural to talk about the 100,000 soldiers and horses who went north led by Meng Yi, they entered the grassland, and before they attacked Ganzhou and Suzhou in Great Xia, they were attacked by the Mongolian tribes of the Yuan Kingdom.

Therefore, Meng Yi had no choice but to deal with the Mongolian tribes first, and this circumstance was delayed for a long time, and the grassland began to snow, Meng Yi had no choice but to withdraw his troops and retreat to the territory of Qin.

On such a cold day, it is also a kind of torment for the march and fighting.

And this time has come, Changsheng Hou Tian Boyuan and Zhenyuan Hou Han Ming have built Ganzhou and Suzhou into a solid soup, each state guards 100,000 people, even if the Qin army breaks through the grassland and really kills them, they will stop outside the border line of Great Xia.

When the winter solstice has passed, the next is the small cold and the big cold, and it will be only two months before the end of the year.

In the warm and spring-like palace of nourishing the heart, Xiao Rui was reading the recital sent by the household department, which introduced the basic situation of the states under the cold winter. Although Xiao Rui has made a lot of efforts, including the promotion of cotton and the full opening of coal mines, there are still many poor people who have not survived in the face of such a cold winter.

The only good news is that the number has dropped significantly compared to previous years, and compared to other countries.

Cotton and coal still play a vital role.

At the same time, the Ministry of Households' recital also introduced the fluctuations in cotton prices and coal prices, and the phenomenon of price hikes in some areas has occurred, and unscrupulous businesses have taken risks for the sake of profits.

Fortunately, Xiao Rui had the foresight to set up a new department in the household department to supervise and manage market prices, which was to prevent merchants from being consumed by profits.

The fate of these merchants was very miserable, and the imperial court issued a fine of up to hundreds of thousands, and if there was no money, it would be deducted with houses and goods, and the merchants who dared to be greedy for money were fined nothing, which greatly deterred other merchants.

The imperial court reduced taxes to promote business, but also learned that the law abided by the law.

"The situation in Great Xia is very serious, but what about other countries?" Xiao Rui put down the piece and asked Wang Dazhi.

Wang Dazhi said respectfully: "Back to Your Majesty, Mr. Guo sent a secret letter from the Yuan Kingdom, saying that the temperature in the Yuan Kingdom was extremely low, and it turned into snow when the hot water in the bowl was thrown into the air. Many small tribes can only survive by submitting to the big tribes, or they can only perish. In this cold winter, the number of people who froze to death in the Yuan Kingdom was a terrible number. ”

Xiao Rui nodded, Daxia is minus 20 degrees, so wouldn't the Yuan Kingdom have minus 40 degrees. The cold winter of minus 40 degrees Celsius can indeed make the hot water throw into snow.

On such a cold day, the Yuan people have no cotton and no coal, so they can only rely on the yurt and the sheepskin for warmth.

This is a disaster between heaven and earth, which cannot be resisted by human beings, and the Khan of the Yuan Kingdom is powerless to change it. Moreover, before the change, he had already sent troops south to plunder the Qi State, but this time, Yue Fei, Li Cunxiao, and Yang Youji were heavily guarded, and they repelled the Yuan army's intention to plunder several times, but they lost their troops and lost their generals, and they did not get the supplies.

And what is even more terrible for Yuan Guo is after winter.

In the spring of the coming year, the weather temperature rises slowly, and the snow does not melt, which will limit the growth of pasture, and their cattle, sheep and horses have survived a winter, and the pasture has been exhausted, and the new pasture grass cannot be produced, and the material can not be grabbed, which is a devastating blow to the Yuan State.

At this time, Wang Dazhi continued: "The Yan Kingdom and the Wei Kingdom also suffered a cold winter, but the situation was better than that of Great Xia. But the losses are also heavier. ”

"What about the Qin State?" Xiao Rui is most concerned about the Qin State now, and now all the situations in the Qin State have to be told to Xiao Rui.

In the past two months, Qin Zheng, the winning king of Qin, finally killed the traitors of the sixteen counties of Dongqi almost, on the surface, the sixteen counties of Dongqi have been very stable, but there are too many old people of Qi State, and the hatred of the people of Qi has been intensified in secret, so under the stability, it is still turbulent.

However, Emperor Qin greatly rewarded the winning king, and on the birthday of the Qin emperor, the winning king Qin Zheng had already returned to the Qin capital.

"Back to Your Majesty, the Qin State has also suffered from severe cold and cooling, and the intelligence of the West Factory shows that there are thousands of refugees who have frozen to death in the Qin capital alone, which is the largest number in the history of the Qin State, not to mention the entire Qin State." Wang Dazhi replied.

Xiao Rui nodded, and then asked, "What about Chang Yu, is there any latest situation?" ”

Wang Dazhi shook his head.

After Chang Yu entered the harem of the Qin State, it was difficult to inquire about the information, and Chuan Jianguo did not dare to inquire deeply, for fear of being detected by Li Xi's people.