After Yang Hao became emperor, the imperial power had reached its peak, and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains were in his hands, and there was no enemy around Qi who could be called an opponent.

In the first year of the emperor's reign, with the accumulation of grain in Hongwu for 23 years, the people of Qi finally saw the dawn of getting rid of poverty.

Yang Hao once again carried out a large-scale reform of the army, and in the face of the threat from the West, it was necessary to improve the combat effectiveness of the army as much as possible.

A large number of junior officers were assigned to military academies for systematic study, especially the tactics of firearms units, which was the focus of the study curriculum.

In the face of tremendous pressure from the outside, Yang Hao appeared extremely urgent, and the military workshop stepped up the production of new muskets.

After several improvements, the performance of Qi's musket has been greatly improved, and the application of paper-loaded gunpowder allows a well-trained soldier to shoot three rounds per minute, although this speed is not easy to do on the real battlefield, but this improvement has greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Qi army.

The Qi army is rapidly moving towards a modern army in the true sense of the word.

In the autumn of the first year of the emperor's reign, the State of Qi once again conquered the land of Baiyue and included a large area of land in the south under the rule of the State of Qi. Yang Hao completely unified the Chinese mainland, freeing up his hands to watch the Western Regions.

For those barbarians in the northern grasslands, if you want to completely exterminate them, you can't do it with advanced weapons.

The land of the grassland, the land is vast and sparsely populated, the situation of the tribes is extremely complicated, and the cost of unification is too high, Yang Hao has a gentle policy for the tribes close to the Qi country, allowing them to trade with the Qi country with livestock, and for those who are hostile to the Qi country, Yang Hao also focuses on cracking down, and supports the rest of the tribes to fight against them.

Spring goes to winter, and five years are fleeting.

In the past five years, Qi's national strength has made a qualitative leap, the steel smelting process has been improved, the steel output has far exceeded that of several times, and several large iron mines have been built in several iron-producing places.

A large amount of steel, greatly satisfied the demand for steel for the railway, in five years, Qi built three new railways, the longest one directly to the west of the river.

Yang Hao didn't want the flames of war to appear in the territory of Qi State, and it was the safest way to fight the enemy in the Western Regions.

As long as the train is officially opened to the front, all these problems will be solved.

In the past few years, crops in the Americas have begun to be widely planted in Qi countries, and there has been a breakthrough in the breeding of corn, and the corn in the experimental field is obviously much fuller than at least.

Yang Hao believes that it will not be long before he can really invest in private planting.

In five years, the Northeast region has been completely stabilized, and the tribal power has been completely uprooted, replaced by fixed villages.

However, although the Northeast region has enviable black soil, the development of agriculture is not achieved overnight.

It took five years for the Qi State to reclaim a small amount of arable land, and the local people basically relied on merchants to buy grain from the Central Plains and transport it back to the north.

Although the price is higher, all kinds of valuable medicinal materials and furs produced in the Northeast are sold to the Central Plains, and the people have some money to buy some food to eat.

Although it can't eat three meals a day like the Central Plains, it is better than the days when there was no food in the tribal era.

Five years is not a long time, but it can make a huge difference in a civilization.

By the end of the fifth year of the emperor's reign, the population of Qi had reached more than 20 million.

More than 20 million, in later generations, there is not even a large city with a large population, but in this era, this is an incomparably huge population resource.

After several expansions, Chang'an has become a huge city with a population of more than 500,000.

The city is full of businesses and shops, and it is no longer obvious that it was a dirt enclosure a few decades ago.

In the past five years, Qi's influence has spread to the far Western Regions, where Qi sent a small number of troops to station.

Although it did not really rule, it ruled the local indigenous tribes in the name of the suzerain.

Moreover, in the past few years, Qi has collected a lot of intelligence about that Western civilization.

The name has changed from the original Joman to Holy Rome.

The moment he heard this name, Yang Hao could basically determine where the traverser like himself probably came from.

And what shocked him even more was that this civilization had existed for more than a hundred years and had passed on three kings.

Three years after the emperor's reign, Augustus II, who was more than 60 years old, died of illness in a city in Central Asia, and Prince Land, who was 30 years old, officially ascended the throne.

It's just that the process of this person's ascension to the throne was not smooth, Caesar's sons Yu declared independence in the same year, and the first civil war broke out in the HRE, which lasted for more than a hundred years.

Yang Hao got this information, and if he wanted to take action, he could only whip it out.

In the sixth year of the emperor's reign, Yumen, an important town in the west of Hexi.

Here is the westernmost point of the border of Qi State, and here is a rare plug in the south of the Yangtze River in the wind-swept and sandy Western Regions.

In particular, the grapes produced here and a unique local melon country were sold to the Central Plains and were deeply loved by the Qi people.

It was even sent to Yang Hao as a tribute for several consecutive years.

Outside the Yumen Pass, a caravan of the original group appeared on the horizon in the distance on camels.

The number of caravans is not right, there are only a dozen people, but these dozen people are equipped with sophisticated waist knives around their waists, and even some of them carry bows and crossbows from the army.

When a young man at the head saw the city in the distance, a smile finally appeared on his depressed face.

"Hurry up, and after entering the city, let's have a big meal."

The young man shouted excitedly.

"Childe! This jade gate is far away from Middle-earth, its environment is not comparable to Middle-earth, there are many barbarians, the son is a daughter, and you should be careful after entering the city. ”

The young man said impatiently, "Okay! I naturally know this, how to say that Yumen here is also the land of my great Qi, how dare those barbarians make trouble, I can't see a town for ten days and half a month on the way, this time I can finally sleep well. ”

As he spoke, he urged the caravan to speed up.

When they arrived at the bottom of the city, the heads of these aliens who were about to dry were hung above the lower city gate, and a notice was posted next to them, telling them what they had done and their heads had been cut off.

The young man probably lost interest in it, some natives in the Western Regions committed rebellion, and only cut off the heads of a few leaders after being exterminated by the Qi army, which made him feel that the Qi people were still too merciful, and it was best to kill all these barbarians who did not obey the king.

The defenders of the city gate showed the Wendie issued by the household department to the merchants, and the caravan entered the border town smoothly.

Although Yumen Pass is not big, it brings together merchants from the Central Plains and the Western Regions, and the customs of various places are blended together, making this place look unique.