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August.

When the yellow-orange-orange corn cob was put away from the test field, Li Yan's heart finally landed completely!

Corn transplantation in China has been successful!

Li Yanzhong rewarded all the agricultural research personnel.

Not only that, after the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Health, Li Yan established the Ministry of Agriculture, and focused on the establishment of the Agricultural Research Institute, which is committed to improving all existing crops, and Li Yan wants to personally grasp this matter.

Actually-

At first, Li Yan separated the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Agriculture from the traditional six ministries, just to show that he valued these departments.

But in the eyes of many politically sensitive people, Li Yan is preparing to reform the system.

Wen Huanzhang, Zhao Ding and others, who are the most politically sensitive, asked to see Li Yan at the first time and talked about the matter.

After this chat, Li Yan really moved the idea of restructuring.

At present, the territory of Dazhong is not small.

The key is to be very decentralized.

Moreover, the current transportation and communication are relatively backward.

As a result, it is difficult to manage.

Therefore, if you want to manage this huge territory well, you must start with the system.

After Li Yan talked with his ministers repeatedly, he divided some departments from the traditional six departments.

For example:

Li Yan broke with thousands of years of convention and set up a special Ministry of Commerce to be in charge of domestic and foreign trade, and handed over the ministry to Zhongshumen under direct management.

Li Yan set up a special Ministry of Development and Reform, which is responsible for national development and reform, and is also subordinate to Zhongshu.

Li Yan separated taxation from local power and set up a separate State Administration of Taxation, which was managed by the three departments.

Li Yan separated the customs from the local power and set up a separate General Administration of Customs, which was managed by the three divisions.

Li Yan specially set up the Ministry of Supervision, which was under the management of the Imperial Historical Observatory.

Li Yan specially set up the Audit Office, which was managed by the Imperial Historical Observatory.

Li Yan formally established the Ministry of Science and Technology to vigorously develop science and technology - although the Ministry of Science and Technology is nominally subordinate to the Ministry of Industry, it is also under the control of Li Yan himself.

Wait a minute......

In this restructuring, Li Yan mainly refined the power of the central government according to some departments he knew in later generations, dismantled the traditional six ministries and turned them into more than a dozen ministries, so that they could check and balance each other and supervise each other, so as not to dominate one party, and at the same time collected the local financial power, and increased the power of the supervision department, so that its power was second only to the Zhongshu Menxia, the Privy Council, and the three divisions, and became the fourth largest power department in Dazhong.

To put it bluntly, Li Yan is to further strengthen the centralization of power and increase the cohesion of the country.

Because this restructuring Li Yan did not move the power of the deacons, and even increased their power, which made the deacons full of enthusiasm and constantly helped Li Yan improve the framework formulated by Li Yan.

Time passed slowly in the process of restructuring in Dazhong.

In the process, the battlefield situation on the northern front seemed to be delicately balanced - the Eastern Route Army, Yue Fei tried many times in a few months, but failed to capture Yanjing, which had many dangerous passes and was personally garrisoned by the world's number one general, Wan Yan Xian. After the Western Route Army, Liu Qi and Han Shizhong captured Shuozhou and Yingzhou, the Jin Army changed its tactics, they relied on having the world's first cavalry, never confronted the Chinese army head-on, but kept harassing left and right, in other words, if you can fight, the Jin Cavalry will fight, and if you can't beat it, the Golden Cavalry will run, and the Shuobei Plain is a horse Pingchuan, which is greatly conducive to the tactics of the Golden Cavalry, therefore, the Western Front has not made much progress at present.

At the end of September, the Western Xia family sent Princess Yinchuan, Princess Xiping (Liang Xianxian), and Princess Huining (Liang Shishi) of Western Xia to Bianliang, Tokyo.

The Dazhong Imperial Court held a very grand concubine ceremony for Li Yan, Li Qinglu, Liang Xianxian, and Liang Shishi.

At the same time, the Central Xia also began to fulfill the Central Xia Alliance.

The alliance treaty is roughly as follows:

Dazhong recognized Daxia as a country, the two sides were equal to each other, and they were a brotherly state (Dazhong was a brother, Daxia was a brother), and Li Yan and Li Qianshun became brothers with different surnames (Li Yan was young, but he was still a brother, and Li Qianshun was eight years older than Li Yan, but he was a younger brother), that is, Dazhong was a little taller than Daxia.

The Xia army withdrew from Shaanxi and returned the previously occupied Zhenwu City, Xi'an Prefecture, Linzhou Jianningqi, Huaide Army, Tiandu Village, and Lanzhou.

Dazhong admits that the states outside the Great Wall, such as Tiande and Yunnei, are summer soil.

The most important one, the Chinese army withdrew from Hengshan, ceding Hengshan to Daxia, and the two sides took Hengshan-Tiandu Mountain as the national border - in fact, the Chinese army did not have any troops in Hengshan, only Fuzhou Zhejia still guarded a few important places, in addition, the Song Western Army also occupied some Hengshan area.

In addition, out of political and economic needs, the two sides opened a field to carry out trade, and reopened the Silk Road, which had been cut off by the Western Xia for more than a hundred years, and the trade between China and the West was in full swing ever since.

It can be said that this was a rare and great victory for the diplomatic envoys of the Western Xia.

Before this, Western Xia had never received such a high degree of recognition, such a high nominal status.

Not to mention, the Great Lieutenant gave Hengshan, which was most important to Western Xia, to Western Xia.

It is precisely because of this that the Western Xia was very active in this alliance, and gave a large number of dowries to the three princesses Li Qinglu, Liang Xianxian, and Liang Shishi - cattle and horses, in addition, there are a large number of Xixia specialties, such as 100,000 pieces of Tan sheepskin, 100,000 pieces of Xixia porcelain, 10,000 catties of the best Helan stone, and so on...... In short, it is full of sincerity.

In addition to these, Western Xia also sent 30,000 elite troops to attack Tiande, Yunnei and other places currently occupied by the Jin army.

Of course, it's not as simple as it seems.

The reason why Xixia fell to Dazhong, in addition to being stronger and more fierce, was also because the Jin people breached the contract and snatched back the Tiande, Yunnei and other places that were promised to Xixia, and then threw a piece of land of four wars in Xixia, that is, northern Shaanxi, wanting to pull Xixia into the war and muddy the water, which made the two sides have a great grudge, which is also one of the reasons for the alliance between Xixia and Dazhong.

Unexpectedly, Li Yan didn't care about the nominal gains and losses at all, directly recognized the Western Xia as a country, and was willing to pay real things (Hengshan, which the Tangut people valued the most), and then formed an alliance with the Western Xia.

The alliance between the Middle Xia, the benefits obtained by the Western Xia are not much to say, such as preserving the Western Xia, having a powerful ally, getting the status of a great power, being able to trade with the Great Xia, being able to develop safely for a few years, and so on, the benefits are too many.

As far as Dazhong is concerned, an alliance with Western Xia is actually very important.

First of all, Dazhong temporarily stabilized its western side, and could draw out part of the army from the west.

Secondly, Dazhong received the response of the Xia army, which has increased a lot in terms of strength and deterrence.

In addition, before Dazhong negotiated peace with the Southern Song Dynasty, the south was temporarily stabilized, and some troops from the south could also be withdrawn.

Now, Dazhong can finally let go and fight with Dajin to determine Yan Yun's belonging.

Li Yan soon ordered the transfer of 50,000 troops from the southern and western fronts to reinforce the northern front, and all the existing 100,000 reserves in Dazhong were transferred to the northern front to supplement the battle losses of the Eastern Route Army and the Western Route Army.

In addition, Li Yan gave an order to the military department to recruit another 200,000 reservists to prepare for a protracted war.

From the formation that Li Yan put out, anyone can see that for Yan Yun, Li Yan is bound to win!

It was also at this moment that the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin came to Bianliang City in Tokyo......

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