Wan Qiao's envoy to the Jin Kingdom was an unprecedented tragic thing, and he knew that it was a pit before the envoy, but he didn't expect that after the actual envoy, this pit was too big, almost to the point of suffocating this unlucky ghost.

When he arrived in the Eastern Capital, Wan Qiaoyu originally felt that relying on the appearance of his little wife, sister, and daughter, he could meet the Son of Heaven and gain grace. However, after losing his wife and soldiers, he didn't see His Majesty at all, not to mention, his wife, daughter, and sister-in-law all stayed in the Eastern Capital, and he went to Jinguo alone.

The Jin State is now in civil strife, but despite this, Wan Qiaowei is still taken seriously, after all, Wanyan Zongbi of the main battle faction still recognizes the plan of attacking the Han State from the north and south, which is why Wan Qiaowei is taken seriously.

The main battle faction is dominated by Wanyan Zongbi, who hopes to gain more wealth and more voice through conquest. The main peace faction is dominated by Wanyan Zongqi, although Wanyan Kang has been established as the crown prince, but for him, Wanyan Kang is just a child, as long as he can control enough power, then it is not impossible to reverse it.

The plan of the north and south to attack the Han State sounds very good, but in fact it is just a flower in the mirror, the moon in the water, the Southern Song Dynasty is weak, how can it have the ability to invade the Han Kingdom in the north, and in the end, the north and south will become the Jin State against the Han State alone. After being captured twice, Wanyan Zongqi realized that the Han State was on the rise at this moment, and rashly attacking the Han State in this situation would undoubtedly be a disaster for the Jin State.

The internal struggle in the Jin Kingdom, on the surface, was a battle between the main battle faction and the main peace faction, but in fact it was a duel between the two major factions of the Taizu faction and the Taizong faction.

The Taizong clan represents vested interests, they have gained enough benefits by destroying the Liao State and invading the Song Dynasty twice, they are tired of war, at least tired of going south, if they have to go to war, they are more willing to go west and north to occupy the vast grassland, plundering more cattle and sheep, women, and population. Instead of going south to fight with the Han Kingdom, after all, if you bully the grassland tribes, the Jin Kingdom still has a very strong advantage.

The Taizu faction represents the emerging faction, they need to seize greater benefits through conquest, and this group of young Zhuang faction generals are fanatical war maniacs. This group, yearning for the rich Central Plains, is more willing to plunder the Central Plains. The most important thing is that they never think that the Jin army can't defeat the Han army, and they want to wash away the previous shame.

The dispute between the two factions, in fact, has another meaning, that is, about the final struggle for imperial power, especially the Taizong line, now only while Wanyan Wu Qimai is still alive and has the opportunity to give it a go, once Wanyan Wu Qimai returns to the West, then everything is over.

Wanyan Zongqi may indeed be inferior to Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan on the battlefield, but he has to be more clever in playing power and scheming, of course, this has something to do with Wanyan Wu begging and pointing behind him.

Peace, since the Jin and Han wars, both sides have suffered great losses, so when the peace is negotiated, the two sides can stand on the same footing, in order to negotiate peace can be carried out smoothly, Wanyan Zongqi sent his younger brother Wanyan Zongmei to the south, by the way, he brought the princess Wanyan Meiying who was alluring to the country and the city, this guy knows that there is a tradition of harmony in the Central Plains, and the emperor of the Han Dynasty has the disease of widowhood, maybe harmony can have an unexpected effect.

In this situation, Wan Qiyu came to the Kingdom of Jin, how could such an envoy be effective? However, this guy is the catalyst that makes the internal struggle within the Jin Kingdom even more intense.

Emperor Wanyan Wu begged to buy felt a little powerless, he knew that he had no way to support his son Wanyan Zongqi, and the future road could only be walked by himself, however, this generation of heroes was unwilling to withdraw from the stage of history like this, or find a way to suppress Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyan Zonghan and others.

No matter what, now Wanyan Wu is still the emperor, and he is still in power, and he still has a lot of say in many major affairs, especially in military affairs, Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyan Zonggan still have to obey his decision.

Sending troops south to fight a decisive battle with the Han State, or sweeping the grassland, the two issues were originally quarrelsome, but after the arrival of Wan Qiao, Wanyan Wu begged to buy an abnormality, he announced the expedition to the grassland very arrogantly, and ordered Wanyan Zongbi, Wanyan Lou Room, and Wanyan Yan's mother soldiers to go out in three ways.

The emperor's order to go out cannot be violated, but it is still possible to delay a little time, but Wanyan Zongbi and others did not delay for too long, so it was very bad news from the southern flying pigeon, and the Southern Song Dynasty perished, which shattered the illusion of a north-south attack.

History is often a mixture of countless accidents and an inevitability, and one major event after another occurs. For example, the grandfather of Genghis Khan, who swept across the Eurasian continent in later generations, to be precise, the entire tribe was uprooted in this Jin army's expedition, which means that this hero will not appear again, which is something that no one expected. Even Liu Zhenglong, who was reborn in later generations, did not think of this, this may be the butterfly effect.

Now whether the Jin Kingdom is going south has no meaning for Wan Qiao, the Southern Song Dynasty is gone, and the Han Dynasty has no place for itself, where will it go in the future?

In the end, the cunning Wan Qiaoyu still found a way for himself, that is, to get through the relationship with Yan Zonghan and go south as a spy of the Jin Kingdom, after all, his wife, sister-in-law, and daughter are all in the mansion of the Han magnates, and it should not be difficult to grab some valuable information.

Wanyan Zonghan was quite optimistic about Wan Qiao, not only provided a subsidy of 50,000 taels of silver, but also sent a team of 100 people as a bodyguard, and handed over the entire intelligence network of the Eastern Capital to this guy.

Wan Qiao, who became a spy of the Jin State, came to the Eastern Capital very happily and soon lurked.

The news of Jin's expedition to the grassland finally reached the ears of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, and he was very pleased that Jin Guo did this, at least there would be no more war between the two countries in the short term, in this case, the optimization and rectification of the army was on the agenda.

The imperial capital, the eastern capital, and the southern capital stood side by side, and the huge state apparatus of the Han Empire was running at high speed.

As the political center, the administrative center, the speed of operation is so high, rare in ancient times, the administrative area of the Han Dynasty is re-planned, divided into thirteen states, the governor of the state is the governor, each state is stationed in the strength of an army, this army is no longer a battle sequence, is called the Longxiang army, numbered from one to thirteen, the state of the soldiers and horses are from the battlefield down the generals, like the Pan family five tigers, Lin Chong, Lu Junyi, etc. The governor may control the military and the superintendent, but the two are parallel and not subordinate to each other. The governor is under the jurisdiction of the political affairs hall, and the soldiers and horses are under the jurisdiction of the iron blood hall. In addition, each state will set up a law court, and the prefect is the president, which is directly subordinate to the crape myrtle pavilion and is not under the jurisdiction of the governor. Since then, the judicial power exercised by the governor for thousands of years has finally come to an end, and the governor has concentrated on managing the administrative affairs of the administrative area and promoting economic development.

The selection of civil officials has also changed from the previous simple imperial examination to a dual-track system, and the imperial examination continues to be retained, but like the students of the College of Engineering, the Academy of Sciences, the Business School, the Maritime College, the College of Finance and Trade, etc., they must study in the Han Administrative Reserve Institute for one to three years before they can take up their posts, and they are not directly officials, but as reserve officials, after the unified training of the Ministry of Officials, they start from the deputy position in the lower places.

During the entire administrative planning period, Liu Zhenglong, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, did not put forward any suggestions or interventions, and fully gave the seven scholars the authority to let them do it. At this time, the crown prince played a huge role in supervising the country, although the prince's personality was not like His Majesty, but in terms of governing the country, he did show extraordinary talent.

The Dijing civil official group is in full swing, which brings unprecedented pressure to the four major families, after all, these credits are all from the civil official group, and what is even more fatal is that the crown prince is presiding over the country, they can't refute it, they can't restrain it, in this case, the four major families began to gradually understand Your Majesty's true intentions, so they began to meet Your Majesty and ask for military reform, which is a signal that the four major families took the initiative to give up their military power.

Under the premise that the four major families gradually gave up control of the army, the reorganization of the army presided over by Gongsun Sheng also kicked off, which completely jumped out of the Iron and Blood Hall, in this case, the five scholars of the Qilin Pavilion could not sit still, and took the initiative to participate in assisting Gongsun Sheng to complete the reorganization of the army.

Impartiality, the reorganization of the army, reform, the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty still did not participate, did not express any opinions, at this time he was far away in the southern capital of Hangzhou, in the eastern capital is the fourth prince Zhao Wang Liu Yi, this is known as the most like the Son of Heaven The prince showed his skills in this reorganization, which shocked the world.

The reorganization of the army was carried out in the Eastern Capital, and the Son of Heaven personally presided over the outline of the economic development plan of the Han Dynasty in the Southern Capital, which he drew on the template of the economic development of the southern Song Dynasty and the southern part of the Yangtze River, the budding bourgeoisie in the late Ming Dynasty, and the European Industrial Revolution. Professors from the National Business School, the School of Economics, the Academy of Sciences, the School of Engineering, and the School of Administration participated in the whole process.

The last thing Dahan lacks is money, but there are too many places to spend money, and the finances always give people a feeling of being stretched, which makes Liu Mingjun and Chai Jin, who are in charge of the national finance, quite a headache.

Dahan's finances are the coexistence of two giants, Liu Mingjun and Chai Jin have different division of labor, Liu Mingjun is in charge of financial revenue, and Chai Jin is in charge of financial expenditure. The two parts are in the East Courtyard and the West Courtyard of the Finance Yuan, also known as the East and West Courtyards.

Shenlong's annual fiscal revenue in the seven years has reached an unprecedented 60 million yuan, while the financial expenditure has exceeded 70 million, which is closely related to the need for stability in Jiangnan and the need for reform of the army.

In fact, the biggest expenditure is not at home, but overseas, when the Jin State was actively conquest of the grassland, the Han army was not idle, Hebron and Boyan led 150,000 cavalry to the west, the purpose is very simple is to conquer the Western Regions, to ensure that when the Western Liao is conquered in the future, there can be a forward army, and the war horses and material resources of the Western Regions will be continuously transported back to the Han Dynasty, but this process is huge. These 150,000 troops came from Dali, Tubo, and Western Xia respectively, and there was no doubt that they were intended to weaken the local forces in these three places and pave the way for the future transformation of the land and the return of the river. This expedition to the west is of great strategic significance, but the expenditure is huge, and no benefits can be seen in a short period of time.

The Han Navy was also changed to the Han Navy, and expanded to 250,000, of which 100,000 were stationed in Goryeo, on the one hand, to prevent the invasion of the Jin army, and on the other hand, to develop many islands in the East China Sea. The remaining 100,000 went to Nanyang, although Fangla's old department was used as the advance army earlier, but in fact, there is still a long way to go to develop Nanyang.

In addition, there are 50,000 ocean expeditionary forces, who have penetrated deep into the Indian Ocean and continue their quest. The consumption of these 250,000 navy is far more than that of the 500,000 army, and the daily consumption is basically 300,000 yuan, which can be regarded as the biggest burden of the Han Dynasty. However, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty was not enough, and the ultimate goal of the navy was to maintain more than 350,000 to conquer the territory outside the Han Dynasty. At that time, seafaring technology was still relatively backward, coupled with the low level of medical care, the non-combat wear and tear of the navy was staggering, and in the face of indigenous resistance, pirate attacks were a normal thing, which is why the expenses were high.

In the face of Liu Mingjun and Chai Jin's difficulties, Liu Zhenglong, the son of the Han Dynasty, didn't care, he said with a smile: "The input and output are not proportional to the temporary time, in fact, the Han tax is very low, mainly to hide the wealth from the people, since you feel that the financial expenditure is difficult, then let those rich people pay for it, and when the navy goes out in the future, take them with you, you can not only do trade, but also buy overseas land." ”

"Buy, overseas land." This question makes Chai Jin and Liu Mingjun feel incredible, overseas are all small countries, not yet civilized, who wants to open up, who is willing to pay money to buy land?

"That's right, it's to buy overseas land, for example, the Chai family and the Liu family can buy 500 to 1,000 miles of land, build a city, form a city-state kingdom, and become a king, isn't it? The land, the people, the goods, and the minerals within the territory are yours, and the taxes are yours. Don't you think so? ”

This also thundered the two of them, this idea is indeed there, but when it really comes, Liu Mingjun and Chai Jin have no bottom in their hearts.

Liu Zhenglong waved his hand, let the two sit down, and said, "It's okay, if you have any confusion, just say it." Although we are kings and ministers, in fact, we are all relatives, and you are both my eldest brother, so if you have any confusion about buying land overseas, just say it.

Buying land, building a country, and restoring the glory of his ancestors, Chai Jin suddenly became interested, and he took the lead in saying: "Are these kingdoms completely autonomous, not a state capital of the Han Dynasty?" ”

"There is no need to pay taxes, tribute is indispensable, and free trade with the Han is good. As for whether it is completely autonomous, it is necessary to distinguish between the emperor's relatives and the prince of the country, and the land bought by the prince and the king of the county outside, the area is 1,000 li, no more than ten cities, and the population is capped at 100,000. It can be armed within 5,000 places, and the Han does not interfere in the affairs of the kingdom, but all civil and military officials must study in the imperial capital for more than one year, the prince must study in the imperial capital, and the prince must not leave the capital unless he ascends the throne in advance before the age of sixteen. The king was canonized by the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty and worshipped once every three years. ”