Several important engineers at Chen Xian's steel mill and arsenal in Laiwu, as well as several battalion-level officers stationed in Huaibei County, were instigated to go to the Song state.

In the first few times, Chen Xian was furious and ordered the intelligence department to find out these traitors and kill them as an example.

But on the one hand, this kind of thing emerges in endlessly, from Mongolia, to the Song Kingdom, to Wanyan Pingtao in the north, or using inducements, or kidnapping, and all kinds of means are used to dig up the foot of the wall from the East China Sea, so that Chen Xian is unable to prevent it, and he can't kill him.

Moreover, to assassinate traitors in the enemy's territory is not only very difficult, Chen has very low power, but also has to sacrifice a large number of intelligence personnel who have been trained with great difficulty.

When the mutiny and capture were endless, the leaked information had already been leaked, and the killing was meaningless except to vent his anger, and Chen Xian could only stop this kind of loss-making assassination.

Judging from the news sent back by the Song State Intelligence Station, the Song State also mastered the manufacturing technology of copper cannons and flintlock guns, the refining technology of reverberatory furnaces and the technology of iron piercing.

The reason for this judgment was that his intelligence agents discovered that the troops of the Song State not only began to be equipped with copper cannons and flintlock guns, but also changed to plate armor.

Compared to the military sensitivity of the Mongols, the Song were too far behind.

After stealing Chen Xian's technology, the Song people were most interested in the full-body plate armor technology that had been basically eliminated by Chen Xian, followed by the flintlock pistol, which was in line with the Song army's tradition of attaching importance to projecting weapons......

But what made Chen Xian wary was the huge manpower, material and financial resources of the Song people.

In just two or three years, the Song people have trained 60,000 or 70,000 new troops in front of the palace, and almost all of these new troops are equipped with flintlock muskets, and the proportion of spearmen in the new army is about 20%.

Relying on this new army in front of the palace equipped with flintlock pistols and small field artillery, the Song court also strengthened its control over the locality.

The Song people even stole Chen Xian's cement-firing technology and fort technology, and built a large number of forts in Hanzhong, Xiangyang, the Huai River and the areas bordering the Jin Kingdom!

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The intelligence shows that two years ago, the people of Jin have achieved the self-production of flintlock pistols, but the number and quality of craftsmen in Jin are obviously inferior to that of Song Guo, and in two years, he only armed more than 20,000 flintlock musketeers.

In terms of artillery, the Jin people also cast some four or five pounds of copper cannons as field artillery.

They also cast a large number of cast-iron cannons, which were erected on the city walls.

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When the domestic situation stabilized a little, Chen Xian did not hesitate to launch a battle of killing gold with one stone.

Symmetry first, attacking the Jin State could not only plunder the wealth, swallow up the population of about seven or eight million in the Jin State, and more than 50 million acres of fertile farmland, but also mobilize the Mongols.

In order to fully mobilize the Mongols, Chen Xian also planned to open a second battlefield in western Liaoning.

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The attack of the Tokai Kingdom on the Jin Kingdom was divided into two routes, one of which was assembled at the Daimyo Mansion.

The other road is assembled in Jeju.

Chen Xian appointed the director of the General Staff Department of the Military Department, and Li Shi, the "lieutenant general" of the General's Office, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the war against Jin, and hung the marshal's seal.

The General's Mansion is actually the General's Office, and the reason why the name was changed was mainly because Li Shi felt that the name was not good, and it was too cheap to hang under the General Staff Department, so Chen Xian changed the General's Office to the General's Office, and separated it from the General Staff Division and placed it under the palace, becoming a military advisory body that only belonged to the king.

Chen Xian transferred eight divisions from Hebei, Shandong, Goryeo and other places, and two more divisions from his own Guards Army, which were handed over to Li Shi's command.

In the past two years, Li Shi, Zhang Bai and several other people who were brought to the General's Mansion by Chen Xian, under Chen Xian's attention, have successfully become political and business tycoons, and Li Shi moved his family to Mizhou.

Today, the Li family not only holds the position of mayor of Mizhou City and several nearby counties, but also holds a large number of supervisory positions in Mizhou City and several nearby counties, and the party leader of the People's Conservative Party in Mizhou City and several nearby counties is also in the hands of the Li family.

Not only Mizhou, but also in the Governor's House of Langya County, the Li family also directly and indirectly holds nearly ten seats, and is the leading political and business tycoon in Langya County.

Taking advantage of the political power that is being held openly and secretly, the Li family's family property has also begun to expand rapidly in the past few years.

Li Shi found that the game designed by Chen Xian for them was actually more advantageous than the official eunuch family of the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, and the Jiangmen family.

In the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, unless you divide one side, the so-called official family, the so-called Jiangmen family, are difficult to last for a long time, and the prosperity depends on the relationship between the family and the emperor and those big people in the political center.

But in this game designed by Chen Xian, a family can use its own wealth and influence to grasp the political rights of a place, and these wealth, influence, and political rights can be passed on from generation to generation!

Moreover, because of the checks and balances of power, even if it is the county guard, even if it is Chen Xian's prime minister, it is difficult to move them as local political and business tycoons, even if he dies, there are few people in this country who can persecute his family except Chen Xian.

Li Shi found that compared with these real benefits, what kind of opening teeth, what building a mansion, and what a feudal marquis are not worth mentioning, what are the benefits of opening teeth and building a mansion in addition to making Chen Xian suspicious of him? Rebellion?

Li Shi knew very well that if he dared to raise the anti-flag, the young officers under his command who read the textbooks compiled by Chen Xian and grew up listening to Chen Xian's greatness would be the first to oppose him!

And Li Shi knew even more that once he rebelled, Chen Xian would not have to fight him at all, only need to cut off his supplies, and the troops under his command that used muskets and cannons would be paralyzed in a few days.

Feudal marquis? The power that the Li family currently controls is not stronger than that of the empty marquis of the Song State?

Moreover, Chen Xian did not even block the road of Li Shifenghou.

This levy is an opportunity, as long as Li Shi fights beautifully in this war, it is the right thing to be feudal, and it is not impossible to be a marquis, and when the time comes, it is not a big deal to carve out half a county in the territory of the Jin State, as the private territory of the Li family.

Therefore, in the past two years, Li Shi and their knots of being dismissed from the army have long been untied.

Because Zhang Bai was obsessed with party affairs, he had already completely resigned from his military post and completely changed to a civilian position, and he had just run for the Taishou of Penglai County, and he was unwilling to lead troops to fight again.

In fact, the development momentum of the Zhang family is better than that of the Li family, since last year, the Zhang Bai brothers have the cheekiness to take away ten 200-ton Galen ships from Chen Xian, load them with cannons, and convert them into armed merchant ships, and from Chen Xian's maritime fleet, they will go to a group of crew members and captains, and they will suddenly rank among the top ten sea merchants in the East China Sea Kingdom.

Therefore, Chen Xian could only retreat and appoint Yang Xiaoyi as the commander-in-chief of the East Route Army, hanging the general's seal, Chen Xian transferred four divisions from Shandong and Goryeo, and transferred one division from the Praetorian Guard, which was under the command of Yang Xiaoyi.

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