In the grassland of Hetao, where water and grass are abundant, after many years, Mu Huali once again visited his master, the great Genghis Khan.

I don't know if it's because of the influence of Chen Xian's butterfly, Mu Huali did not die two years ago as in history, and until today, he is still alive and healthy.

Mu Huali did not hide it from telling Genghis Khan about his failures over the years and the rise of that man.

Jochi, who was listening in the big tent, couldn't help but interrupt Mu Huali several times, and sarcastically mocked his failure.

Genghis Khan did not stop Jochi's unreasonableness, he listened to Mu Huali's story, pondered for a long time, and suddenly ordered to hand over the army to Chagatai and Tuolei, he personally led 20,000 cowardly Xue troops, and left the Ordos steppe with Jochi and Mu Huali, crossed the Yellow River to the west, and entered Shanxi.

In Shanxi, Genghis Khan personally watched the Han army's musketeers and artillerymen under Mu Huali perform a shooting performance.

After seeing the power of the cannon, Jochi immediately closed his mouth, and even Genghis Khan was silent for a long time.

After that, Genghis Khan personally went to Xuanhua and personally watched Chen Xian's fortress on the border between the two sides.

In Genghis Khan's eyes, after seeing the power of the cannon, it is naturally not difficult to see the power of this kind of fortress.

After returning to Xijing from Xuanhua, Genghis Khan fell into a long period of contemplation, and even Jochi, who had always been short-tempered, seemed somewhat silent.

After this day, Genghis Khan left Jochi to sit in Datong, led the Mongol army, and left Xijing (Datong) with Mu Huali and thousands of his thousands of Mongol artillery over the years, and made a detour from the Mongolian plateau to the northern border of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Genghis Khan decided to destroy the Western Xia Kingdom first, on the one hand, to solve his worries, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see the power of artillery in actual combat.

In the war to conquer the Western Xia, Genghis Khan asked Mu Huali to command his artillery to conquer one fortress after another in the Western Xia Kingdom, and in the process, Genghis Khan deeply experienced the horror of this weapon.

In the war to defeat Western Xia, more than 100 cannons brought by Mu Huali played a great role.

It is precisely because of the existence of these cannons that Western Xia was destroyed more than half a year earlier than the historical time.

In the spring of 1227, the walls of the Zhongxing Mansion were destroyed by cannons, and the Mongol army rushed into the capital of the Tangut people.

After more than ten days of brutal street fighting, the Western Xia Kingdom was declared extinct.

In order to punish this unruly small state, Genghis Khan carried out a brutal massacre of the party members, completely eliminating the stinger in the belly of the Mongol Empire.

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Hearing that the Mongols still chose to attack Western Xia first, Chen Xian breathed a sigh of relief, and he hurriedly took advantage of this opportunity to begin to reform his civil service system.

Previously, Chen Xian's domestic electoral system was maintained only at the county level, which he regarded as a way to counter local tyrants.

But over the past few years, Chen Xian has discovered through intelligence organizations that the corruption of officials at the prefectural level he appoints is significantly more serious than that at the township and county levels.

In recent years, with the support of Chen Xian, commerce in the East China Sea has developed, and a large number of wealthy businessmen have appeared, and these rich and oil-flowing wealthy businessmen have aroused the covetousness of many officials, coerced and extorted money, framed and broken families, and even attacked their own merchant ships disguised as pirates.

Chen Xian originally planned to sell the Galen ships to the maritime merchants to allow them to have armed merchant ships, but he was immediately met with strong opposition from almost all the officials under him, who could not understand at all how the merchants were qualified to have such powerful armaments.

These circumstances made Chen Xian very distressed for a while.

Chen Xian has never been a believer in democracy, and the so-called democratic system is actually a tool in his hands, and the implementation of the democratic self-government system at the county and town level is to control the grassroots and to confront the landlords.

Therefore, he felt that there was no need for such a system in the administrative organs above the prefecture, and that he could govern the superstructure in the form of the dictatorship of the king of this era.

In addition, Chen Xian also hoped to replace the landlord Haoqiang who had been eliminated by him with the more vigorous and energetic class of the merchant class.

In the past, when Chen Xian's territory was only a few dozen counties in eastern Shandong, the commerce under his command developed very well, and the merchant class developed rapidly in both quantity and quality.

However, when Chen Xian's chassis was expanded and he set up an administrative unit at the prefecture level, the problem suddenly came out.

The prefectural government, which was not restricted by the Governorate, soon became no different from the yamen of this era, and officials began to stealthily plunder the merchants' family property, and it intensified.

There were even several cases of mercenaries controlled by merchant families fighting against the government in Shandong, but the mercenaries were too small and were quickly extinguished when the government mobilized troops.

After this happened, almost all the officials almost unanimously demanded that the mercenary organization be banned, instead of reflecting on why the merchant and the mercenaries they controlled knew that they were going to die, and still moths to the fire.

The happiest dancers are those officials at the county level, who are subject to the restrictions of the Governorate, and some have even begun to try to oppose the Governorate system.

Chen Xian found that although he was the king, he had no way to confront the entire official class.

In the end, Chen Xian had to recognize the reality that in the ideological and technological environment of the current era, the unrestricted powerful government and the merchant class in need of a free environment and the protection of the spirit of the legal contract are completely two hostile and irreconcilable contradictions.

Two choices were placed in front of Chen Xian, either, return to feudal society.

Either the system of the Supervisory Yuan will continue to push up to the top.

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In the end, Chen Xian still chose the second path,

Although Chen Xian really wanted to be a feudal emperor above 10,000 people, it was still the old saying that he did not have the confidence to be a successful founding emperor, he was afraid that he would become a victim of the throne and a stepping stone for others.

Once he chooses the first path, then he will give up his own advantages and compete with the ancients, to be honest, this is not his strength.

Although Chen Xian was already the king of the East China Sea at this time, he had already occupied the position of righteousness. But although Chen Xian is now in his forties, his physical condition is very strange, and he has always maintained the state he was in when he crossed over, that is, when he was twenty-seven years old, and there has been almost no change, but because of the precipitation of time and status, he looks very mature and calm, and it seems that he is in his thirties.

If nothing else, Chen Xian feels that he probably has many years to live.

The East China Sea Kingdom only occupies a small corner of the land of China, and there is still a long way to go before the unification of the four seas, if Chen Xian chooses to rule the country now with the power he is not good at, it may not matter if it is ten or eight years, but what about twenty or thirty years from now?

He had to think about it in the long run, don't be able to live for many years and enjoy it for many years, but he was guillotined and his head was cut off, it would be a great loss.

At this time, Chen Xian's generals and officials were not very old, and when it came to power and conspiracy, they were actually still relatively immature, Chen Xian and his young officials, the reason why they were invincible over the years was more by technology than strategy.

Over the years, Chen Xian can clearly feel that these young people under him are growing up rapidly, many of the teenagers who were like blank pieces of paper in the past, he can no longer see through them, even the director of the intelligence department he trusted the most in the past, he didn't dare to fully trust it, this kind of suspicion and fear has made Chen Xian feel exhausted.

And Chen Xian knows very well that he has no room to grow at this time, and the officials and generals under his command still have infinite possibilities!

He had even begun to fear the progress and growth of the young men under him.

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