As mentioned earlier, this land, or rather continent, is surrounded on all sides by the sea. But the civilization of this land has developed to the point where ships can be built to fight wars, so why has no one ever explored the overseas world?

In fact, there is, when there was a civilization on this continent, until now, there are people who continue to try to explore whether there are continents overseas and whether there are different civilizations.

However, those who tried it, there was no return, no exception. Even the famous geographer in this land, Wu Daoji, Wu Daoji was born in a scholar family, but after entering the officialdom, he couldn't bear the darkness of the officialdom and the officials' disregard for human life, so he withdrew from the officialdom.

So why did Wu Daoji end up becoming a famous geographer? It's very simple, because he recorded all the geography and humanities he saw, "the unknown of the master, the unknown of the people" but this land was finally all traveled by him, so he began to yearn for the overseas world, and he was also curious about the whereabouts of those people, is overseas a forbidden place? If you go, you will be punished by God? Or is there a moat that stops everyone who wants to go overseas and buries those who want to die here? Or is it a place of paradise that people who have gone there will never want to come back?

Wu Daoji didn't know which one it was, but he wanted to know that although those who went there came and went, but Wu Daoji had traveled the world for decades, encountered a lot of difficulties and obstacles, and finally turned the danger into a disaster, Wu Daoji didn't want to leave regrets in his life, so he resolutely got on the boat and embarked on a journey overseas, of course, he didn't come back.

What is the world really like? The people on this continent don't know, some people think that this continent is divided into three realms, there is the heavenly realm, which is the sky they see, and the human realm, which is the place where they are, and there is the earth realm, which is under their feet, and the people of the three realms can't see each other, but the three realms are indispensable. Some people think that the heavens are round and the earth is square, because the heavens are constantly changing, changing sooner or later, but the earth has never changed, at least since the civilization of this continent has been recorded in the history books, and has not changed.

As for overseas, these people also have a lot of speculation, some people think that there is no overseas at all, and that the blue sea will continue to drive forward is a waterfall, and everyone who wants to try to explore will eventually fall into the endless abyss; Some people think that there will be other continents overseas, and perhaps those who go are attracted by other continents to stay.

These controversies have never stopped, because these controversies can not really end until everyone can see the overseas with their own eyes, jump out of the continent, or have a little connection with the outside world.

At this time, in Shenzhou City, a city located at the mouth of a river in Nanyan Kingdom, a strange ship suddenly docked on the shore of Shenzhou. What's even more bizarre is that no one noticed it at all, because as soon as the people inside the boat came out, the weird boat disappeared automatically.

"Captain, I have successfully crossed the Rakshasa Sea, and I have found land, and there seems to be a civilization on this land, and I have seen buildings similar to fortifications." A woman dressed in a way that did not fit any country on the continent seemed to be talking to herself, but she wore a black object on her ear that had spread her words to a building thousands of miles away. "Very good, continue to investigate, you @ζ$€#*" The signal was suddenly cut off, and the woman had no choice but to knock on the black object, and the black object changed the direction of the signal from overseas to this continent, and after a few seconds, the woman changed into the traditional dress of the Nanyan woman.

The building, which resembles a defensive tool, actually refers to the walls of Shenzhou City, the woman enters the city, patrols all aspects of the city, she walks on the lively streets, listening to the words of the people around her, intentionally or unintentionally, and in this way, the woman blends into the vast sea of people, and no one can find the difference between her and others.

Since Yuan Yan defeated the enemy army in Fuzhou City, the division returned to the dynasty, the Southern Yan court has never received good news, Wu Niepo and the fifth Yong even if they are brave and good at fighting, but Wang Jing and Wang Duan are also experienced in a hundred battles in the process of establishing the Northern Jin Dynasty, plus the number of the Northern Jin Dynasty army far exceeds the Southern Yan, so that the Southern Yan army is defeated and retreated, and finally the Northern Jin army successfully met in Diaoyu City, and the Southern Yan army was forced to join in Diaoyu City because of the success of the Northern Jin Dynasty.

The name of the city of Diaoyu City always gives people a sense of déjà vu, and there are also legends on this continent that in the era of prehistoric civilization, there was a very powerful empire that almost occupied all the continents, but his leader could not capture it anyway when he conquered the city, and finally died here. Diaoyu City is located on the Diaoyu Mountains, after the Diaoyu Mountains is the capital of Nanyan Yong'an City, and if you want to go to Yong'an City, there is only Diaoyu City to go, Diaoyu City is built by the mountains and rivers, city gates, city walls, palaces, martial arts yamen, foot barracks, naval wharves, other cities have all kinds of facilities Diaoyu City, it can be said that the sparrow is small, but the five organs are complete.

When civilization was produced in this land, Diaoyu City existed, when people found it, they couldn't believe that there was no one living here, people felt that this must be a country, and it was a country with a high degree of civilization that would have the ability to build such a city, but when this continent was explored by people, they did not find such a country that could build such a city, and nature was unlikely to form, so some people felt that this was left by the gods, in their cognition, Only this explanation can be reasonable.

But the people of this land, including Wang Jing, who was about to fight here, didn't know why they wanted to build such a city on the mountain, because no matter how much they were built, it would not be as cheap as a city on the plain and suitable for people to live in.

Was it built for war? This is indeed reasonable, because the existence of this city makes the only way to enter Yong'an City blocked, and the defense facilities in the city are also available, but this place is sparsely populated, and there is no possibility of war before the Chuzhang Empire, so this explanation does not seem to be convincing.

And the reason why Wang Jing and Wang Duan each led 100,000 elite soldiers is the same, they have long heard of this Diaoyu City, and now, they will be the first to see what kind of effect this city will have, either succeed or can only fail, because it was originally planned that the Third Route Army would use Fuzhou City as a base to attack the coastal city, bypassing the Diaoyu Mountains across Nanyan, and directly to the rear of Yong'an City, so that if the two armies are stalemate in Diaoyu City, they will also have a great chance of victory. It's a pity that Wang Jing didn't calculate that his prime minister's military talent would be so bad, indeed, Wang Yi can become the prime minister, it is impossible to rely on the identity of the Wang family alone, and he himself must have some means, maybe this is what everyone often says, "internal fighting insiders, foreign wars outsiders".

Wang Jing and Wang Duan's hearts were also very nervous at this time, they didn't know why an indescribable bad premonition rose in their hearts, but now that the army had marched to this point, they couldn't retreat, and the war still broke out.

Indeed, Diaoyu City is really as people think, it seems to be prepared for war, Wang Jing and Wang Duan's army launched dozens of attacks in the next 30 days but there was no effect, even the army did not even touch the city wall, the Diaoyu Mountain Range was originally very steep, and it took a long time for soldiers to walk to the city wall on foot, not to mention that the Southern Yan army on the city wall kept shooting arrows and firing cannons, and the Southern Yan army at this time had been led by Wu Nepo 70,000, The 50,000 led by the Fifth Yong and the 10,000 led by Yuan Yan were reduced to a total of only 30,000.

But fortunately, they owned Diaoyu City, and the 200,000 army of the Northern Jin Dynasty lost 20,000 when the army of the Southern Yan Kingdom continued to penetrate into the territory of the Southern Yan Kingdom, but in the 30 days of the Diaoyu City alone, the Northern Jin army only had 100,000 left, excluding the troops stationed in the captured city, only 50,000 remained, and there were no casualties on the Southern Yan side.

At the same time, in the past 30 days, the various city lords of Southern Yan have also sent troops to Qinwang and recovered a lot of cities.

Now, both sides have suffered heavy losses, Wang Jing has no reason to fight anymore, Yuan Yan has long put forward a request for peace talks, and now, Wang Jing has to accept peace talks.

Although the Northern Jin Dynasty suffered setbacks in the war, at the negotiation table, there were still many conditions favorable to the Northern Jin Dynasty, and at the same time, there were still 200,000 troops left in the country of the Northern Jin Dynasty. The losses of Southern Yan were even more heavy, although the number of casualties in the army did not seem to be as high as that of the Northern Jin Dynasty, but do not forget that Southern Yan did not have many troops in total, so the more disadvantageous side was actually Southern Yan.

Finally, after the war of words between the envoys of the two countries, it was finally finalized that the Southern Yan removed the national name of Yan, and the emperor Yuan Zeng removed the imperial title and changed the name to the Southern Guogong, the border between the two countries remained the same, and the southern country was called a vassal to the Northern Jin Dynasty, and at the same time, a large amount of gold and silver treasures were to be paid to the Northern Jin Dynasty every year as a "year coin", and at the same time, it was also necessary to pay tribute to grain.

The war is finally over, but Nanyan, oh no, it should be called Nanguo now, there was a little bit of improvement, and now the Northern Jin Dynasty attacked and was beaten back to its original form, and the Northern Jin Dynasty also lost a large number of elite soldiers, but because the war took place in the southern country, other losses were not large. The southern kingdom also had to pay a large amount of wealth to the Northern Jin Dynasty every year.

Yuan Zeng's emperor name is gone, it seems that there is no more depressed than Yuan Zeng in the whole world, he used to be the only ruler on this continent, the emperor, but now he can only be the puppet emperor of the southeast part, Yuan Zeng finally fell ill in depression, the second year after the end of the war, Yuan Zeng died, and the Northern Jin Dynasty finally gave him the nickname, that is, "Emperor Yan Mo", Wang Jing was once Yuan Zeng's courtier after all, and finally gave him some face after Yuan Zeng's death.

Yuan Yan inherited Yuan Zeng's position, but he was no longer the emperor, but the Duke of Nanguo, and at this time, his heart was also extremely complicated. Deep in everyone's heart, there is a dream to achieve a great cause, but today's southern country is the weakest among the four countries on this continent, and now it is suppressed by the Northern Jin Dynasty after the war, and there is no hope or sign of strength, and Yuan Yan himself is about to despair.

It's the time of the day again, that is, the time of the last dynasty, in the past, it was basically the officials who said what they had done the day before, or there were such and such things in the country that had nothing to do with the fate of the country, Yuan Yan had a strong sense of boredom with the formal "Shang Dynasty", and he felt that it seemed that the officials no longer had hope for the country.

But today, Liu Yuan, who hadn't spoken in the court for a long time, suddenly had something to do today, and Yuan Yan of course allowed him.

"My lord, the minister thinks that the reason why the Great Yan Empire perished is, in the final analysis, that is, the incompetence of the scholars who occupy official positions, I personally disagree with the saying that the tiger father has no dog son, sometimes, the son is really far inferior to the father, or just in terms of being an official. And there will also be talents outside the Shi clan, but under a system like the Great Yan Empire, they can only be buried. ”

Yuan Yan felt that what he said made sense, and he realized it, but he didn't come up with a good way to deal with it, and now Liu Yuan suddenly stood up and raised this question, presumably he had already thought of a perfect solution. Then he asked, "Then according to what Aiqing saw, what should the widow do?" ”

"The minister thinks that the Jing country next to my dynasty was originally just an uncivilized barbarian, but now that Jing Jing has opened a private school, a large number of talents have emerged in Jing country, and the strength is not even weaker than that of the Northern Jin Dynasty and Western Yan, and we should follow suit." Liu Yuan paused, and then said, "Although a large number of talents have appeared in Jing State, but limited by the system, only a small part of the talents have entered the official through the inspection system that existed before the Great Yan Empire, and the inspection system is recommended through officials, and it must be biased to promote through people, therefore, we may be able to take the initiative to sign up for talents to select talents in the form of various questions and inquiries, who can answer well, who can be elected as officials, the minister calls this selection method an examination, I don't know how the Lord will be." Liu Yuan finished speaking.

"Good, good, good! The widow thinks that this method is not a human measure but a talent to measure others, and it will definitely allow the talents of the southern country to gather in the court, and can also select talents from all aspects through the examination of multiple subjects, and the widow wants to give this kind of examination a name, called the imperial examination, and spread to the whole country in the name of the imperial examination, what do you think?

"Since the lord has made up his mind, we will definitely support the lord with all our might!" The officials in the court said in unison, and this decision, in the end, brought a series of results, beyond the imagination of everyone in the court.

As a result, the imperial examination was held in full swing in various parts of the southern country, and this examination was also held in Shenzhou City, and among the people who took the examination, the unknown overseas visitor who disappeared in the vast sea of people was also among them, will she succeed? What exactly does she want to do? What impact will she have on the Southland? Why did you stay in the south for a few years and not miss the place where you used to live? The answers to these questions will be presented one by one in the near future, along with the step-by-step road to the prosperity of the southern country......