Wu Hao is old, and he will eventually die.

Although he lived one life longer than others, he was mortal after all, unable to defeat time and unable to escape death.

Standing in front of a globe more than one person high, Wu Haogu wore reading glasses and watched quietly, not knowing how long he had been looking. A smile of satisfaction appeared on a face full of wrinkles and age spots.

This year is already the 40th year of the Republic, which is 1154 when converted into the Western calendar, and Wu Haogu is 78 years old.

In the Middle Ages, seventy was already ancient and rare, and eighty was called old, which almost meant old and confused. However, although Wu Haogu is old, he is not confused, so when he turned seventy eight years ago, he no longer served as the patriarch of the Senate. And before he officially retired, a bill was passed that set the upper age limit for the patriarch at 70 years old. If you are over 70 years old, you should retire rather than become a patriarch.

And two years before he withdrew from the Senate, that is, when he reached the age of 68, he handed over the management of all the commercial banks controlled by the accounts of the samurai family, including the Republic Bank and the Bank of Tianjin, to Wu Yijiu, who retired from the first son of the Yuan.

After 22 years in power, he chose to step down before people were completely tired of it – of course, after being repeatedly advised by Wu Haogu to abdicate.

And the successor to the head of state is not Wu Yiyong or Wu Yixin, but Zhang Zhifeng, who is more than ten years older than Wu Yijiu!

Zhang Zhifeng was one of Wu Yijiu's closest assistants during his tenure as head of state, and at the same time the father-in-law of Wu Yijiu's son, Wu Dezhao. Moreover, before becoming the head of state, he was dragged by Wu Haogu to be the chief treasurer of the republic for 10 years, and it can be said that he has faded out of the political arena, and his protégés have long been scattered.

In addition, Zhang Zhifeng's influence in the army is very weak. The Zhang family is a native of Changzhou, and their ancestors have been scholars who have been cultivating and reading heirlooms for generations, and they do not have the family style of joining the army. Even if it comes to Xinzhou, there is no change, except for Zhang Zhifeng himself who has experience in the army (he is not an officer from a professional class), no one in the Zhang family has ever been an officer (some have been soldiers), and they are basically graduates from universities such as Yuntai Academy and Yenching University. Or in business, or in business.

Therefore, Zhang Zhifeng's election as the head of state with the support of the samurai family can basically be regarded as a transitional figure - a transition between Wu Yijiu and Wu Dezhao.

And the reason why such a transition was arranged, except that Wu Dezhao was still young, only in his twenties. It was Wu Haogu who wanted to break the "hereditary" convention of the Führer.

The head of state, elected by the Senate, is not a position passed down from father to son in the samurai family.

Therefore, 30 years after the samurai father and son monopolized the position of the head of state, it is very meaningful to have a head of state who is not surnamed Wu.

This is not to weaken the power of the samurai, but to pave a way out for the descendants of the samurai.

Since the position of the head of state is not hereditary, once the samurai does not continue to monopolize the power of this position, there is no need to defend it with their lives.

In Wu Haogu's later years, how to let his children and grandchildren survive all kinds of turmoil in the future has become his greatest concern.

In addition to persuading Wu Yijiu to arrange a "transitional head of state", Wu Haogu also sprinkled his children and grandchildren overseas as if they were seeds. Among them, Wu Yiyong was arranged to serve as the governor of the Japanese province for a long time, and Wu Yiyong's sons also settled in Sagami Prefecture and Musashi Prefecture in the Japanese provinces. and took the daughter of a strong man of local Japanese descent as a concubine.

By the way, Japan no longer exists! Instead, it has completely become a Japanese province!

The original Japanese imperial family, the descendants of the Fujiwara clan, the Taira clan, and the Genji clan were all relocated to the northern and southern Naoli of the Great Zhou Kingdom. And he also changed his Han surname.

The ministers and warriors who remained in Japan also changed their surnames to Han and pledged allegiance to the Great Zhou Republic. Ordinary Japanese civilians have also become Han Chinese in this movement to change their surname Yi, at least on the surface, they are Han Chinese!

The process of sinicization will undoubtedly continue, because the Japanese province is too important for the current Great Zhou Republic. The Great Zhou is now an "empire of two continents", with the Old World to the west and the New World to the east, and Japan between the two continents.

It is no exaggeration to say that the world empire of the Great Zhou Dynasty was centered around the Japanese province!

It's not a flattering day, it's reality!

In the Age of Sails, it would have been impossible for China to occupy the New World eastward without Japan. Departing from Tohoku Japan, sailing 4,000 miles can reach the town of Liangshan in Yinzhou. And if you start from Jingdong City, Haizhou, the distance will be stretched to 9,000 miles!

In addition, the rice-rich Kanto Plain of Japan can also be used as a rear supply base for the New World.

Although the New World is rich, there is also a process of development. If nothing else, let's just say that the area around Samurai Bay (later Vancouver and Seattle) does have rich and fertile land. But all covered by dense forests!

Without a few years of cutting down trees, building water conservancy, and opening up arable land, it is simply impossible to turn dense forests into fertile farmland.

In this process, the Great Zhou colonies in the New World had to buy grain from the Japanese provinces. If it weren't for Japan's base, the grain ships would have had to travel an extra 5,000 miles at sea. The efficiency of transportation will be reduced by more than 40%! If you transport livestock, the efficiency of transportation can be even lower.

Therefore, without the Japanese province, the cost of colonizing the Americas in the Age of Sail would have increased several times, and the efficiency would have been greatly reduced, so that there would be no economic possibility of conquering the Americas.

Therefore, completely mastering Japan and making it a part of the Great Zhou Republic forever became a prerequisite for the conquest of the New World, and it was also the national policy of the Great Zhou!

Wu Yiyong became the executor of this national policy and dedicated his life to the cause of the liberation of the Japanese people......

Wu Haogu stretched out his palm, which was covered with old age spots, and gently pushed the globe, turning the eastern hemisphere (the western hemisphere of another space-time) part in front of him.

Vast areas of North and South America have been drawn, but they are still not very accurate, but they can only be seen.

Circumnavigating the Americas is already on the agenda and will take place in the coming years.

And the one who proposed this plan was Wu Yixin, the North American governor of the Great Zhou Republic. The future father of the United States of America!

However, there is no United States of America, only a North American Viceroyalty, four overseas provinces (Xuexiang, Shanxi, Haidong, and Xinxiang) and thirteen dominions, fifteen autonomous cities, and seventy-seven military posts.

The easternmost of these bases has been placed on the east coast of the North American continent...... Placed in what was later known as New York, it is now known as Xinyue Town, a rather remote and desolate place with no permanent residents and only a small number of Marines stationed.

According to the latest statistics, the total number of citizens and civilians living in North America has exceeded 1.5 million, and it will grow by almost 100,000 per year!

While the number of Zhou people in North America is rising, the number of local Yin people is decreasing. According to the report of the Governor's Office of North America, in the past ten years, the Yin tribe in the Viceroyalty has had a major epidemic every year, and one death is eighty out of nine, which is very terrible!

And the good doctors who rushed from the Zhou country were helpless!

The Viceroy of North America was governed by the rainforests south of what would become Mexico. To the south of this rainforest is the territory of the Viceroy of South America.

Because of the distance, ocean currents, and wind direction at sea, the South American Viceroyalty is far less developed than the North American Viceroyalty.

There were less than 100,000 Zhou people (citizens plus civilians) in the entire Governorate, mainly concentrated in Yinshan Province, which was a silver-rich area centered on Yinshan City and New Yinshan City.

As for the rest of South America, the rule of fetters was practiced, and a large number of "Yin family princes" were sealed—the so-called "Yin family" was actually an honorific title, which roughly meant king and emperor. I don't know if it has anything to do with Yin Shang?

However, the Great Zhou Republic didn't care about this, and directly took the title of "Yin Family" as evidence "since ancient times", and also sealed a large number of Yin family princes, all of whom said that they were the descendants of King Su and Su Daji......

Wu Haogu's ears remembered the sound of footsteps at this time, and he turned his gaze to the door of his large study. It was Jiokuno, who was over fifty years old, who came in. Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing both passed away a few years ago! The woman who is now serving by Wu Haogu's side is Yelu Yanxi's youngest daughter, Ci Ono.

"Official," Ji Okuno walked quickly to Wu Haogu's side, made a blessing, and then said in a low voice, "I just got the news, the Emperor Taishang of the Western Song Dynasty is seriously ill and is dying!" ”

"What?" Wu Haogu turned his head with a sad and sad expression on his face, "Why can't it work?" He's younger than me! ”

Zhao Ji is four years younger than Wu Haogu, and he is 74 years old this year. Having lived 19 years longer than in history, and now it is finally coming to an end.

In the splendid and splendid Chengdu Qionglin Palace, the Emperor Tai of the Great Song Dynasty, who has been unscrupulous all his life, is lying on the couch of the dormitory at this time, and the smell of traditional Chinese medicine is everywhere in the dormitory.

Zhao Ji had just drunk a cup of surprisingly bitter ginseng soup (hanging), and now he was a little refreshed, opened his eyes, and just looked at the roof fixedly, looking back on the life he had gone through in his mind.

When he was about to see his ancestors, Zhao Ji should really think about it, and when he saw Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi, how should he report it?

Is the country of the Great Song Dynasty corrupted in his hands?

Uh, it seems to be broken! I'm a little sorry for my ancestors...... Kaifeng Mansion was lost, and a good Song Dynasty was broken into two.

Hey, that's not right! It is true that Kaifeng Mansion has been lost, and a lot of territory in the Central Plains has also been lost, and the Great Song Dynasty has also been divided.

But...... I got a lot! Now the land owned by the two Great Song Dynasty is ten times larger than when the Great Song Dynasty was unified in the past!

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