"How? Brother Si, how many seats are there this time? "In February of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, when the Grand Canal was in full swing on the side of the Great Food Empire, the lively Senate election on the side of the Tang Empire also ended successfully. For more than a year, the political forces led by Tuoba Siji and Cen Tianshi began to set off a new political ideological movement in various parts of the empire, and countless new students participated in it, so that the new concepts brought by Li Xuanqing from later generations gradually took root in the Tang Empire. While the two sides of the Renaissance Society and the Justice Party are constantly developing new members and strengthening themselves, they are also gradually improving their own organizational systems and electoral systems. However, there is a difference from the political parties of later generations, that is, whether it is Cen Tianshi or Tuoba Siji, they all put the political party they formed under the emperor's name, which means that no matter which political party is established, it is actually a concrete manifestation of His Majesty's philosophy of governing the country. Once the theories of these two political parties are gradually perfected and the organizational system takes root, the members recruited will inevitably be loyal to the imperial power, and the emperor can use this idea to meddle in the election of the prime minister of the cabinet, or even make the election of the prime minister in the future a mere formality. However, Li Xuanqing didn't care about this defect, in the final analysis, the separation of powers he made was actually just a dispersal of the power in the hands of the emperor, so that the executive, military, legislative and judicial powers under the imperial power could be separated from each other and at the same time restrain each other, so as to avoid the dominance of one party. In this way, even if one of them has a problem, it will not affect the other, and with the establishment of the Senate, the two parties have been formed, and the contradictions within the empire will be concentrated in the Senate in the future. Li Xuanqing is confident that he will rely on his decades of polishing to completely stabilize this form and become the consensus of everyone, so that the thousand-year-old empire he created will survive forever. Therefore, after the end of the Senate election, Li Xuanqing not only participated in the final closing ceremony, but also held a palace banquet for Cen Tianshi, Tuoba Sizhi and Yang Qiu in the palace, and Xu Tianxiang, Zhang Jianzhong, Du Rangneng and other leaders came to accompany them, which can be regarded as a concentration of the most elite group of people in the Tang Empire at this time.

However, in the face of Li Xuanqing's question, Tuoba Sizhi smiled bitterly, "The emperor's question makes me a little embarrassed, the empire currently has a total of forty-eight provinces, according to the current senator election method adopted by the Senate Divine Doctor, each province selects two councillors, Guanzhong Province because it is the location of the imperial capital, add one, a total of ninety-seven councilors, my justice party only won less than thirty percent, thirty councillor seats. This time it was a complete defeat to Mr. Cen. ”

"Haha, Brother Siji, I said it before this election, no matter whether we win or lose, we won't be frustrated, why do you have such an expression?" Tuoba's words made everyone present laugh, and Cen Tianshi looked at the other party's wry expression and shouted directly: "I didn't ask the emperor for help, this was all selected by the Fuxing Society." In each province, except for the special zones under the administration of Guanzhong and Fengzhou, which are elected by the two places to participate on their behalf, I really don't know what the election result will be. "This is the first election, so neither of them expected this result, but when the selection is carried out in all provinces of the empire, there are temporary institutions to supervise the implementation of the political envoys, local garrisons and legal courts, and in order to ensure fairness and reasonableness, Li Xuanqing specially asked Zhang Jianzhong to issue a cabinet order, and the local political envoys and other yamen shall not interfere in the election situation and results, and strictly order that all incumbent officials, regardless of which political party they are, are allowed to participate in the election and are not allowed to run for vote. In this way, it means that all senators must be selected from the people, and Li Xuanqing also said to all the elected senators at the end of the previous senator election that senators must bring the voice of the people to participate in politics, understand the people's feelings, and represent the people of their respective provinces to participate in the great affairs of the empire, which is equivalent to adding a supervision and supervision system to all the administrative systems of the empire.

"Mr. Cen, Brother Siji, on behalf of the Cabinet, I guarantee that neither my Cabinet nor its provincial yamen at all levels have interfered in the election in this election." Zhang Jianzhong also laughed at this time, and several people clearly wanted to make fun of Tuoba Si Advice, so after Zhang Jianzhong finished speaking, Xu Tianxiang and Du Rangneng picked up their departments one by one.

After a burst of laughter, Li Xuanqing waved his hand to stop everyone's commotion and said with a smile: "Okay, although the results of this election are a bit unfavorable for the Justice Party, it is not a big deal, after all, this is the first election, and it also happens that Brother Jianzhong was originally a member of the Fuxing Society, so Brother Jianzhong, the prime minister, is sitting firmly." Waiting until the fifteenth year of the apocalypse is the key for both of your parties, because from then on, the next prime minister will need to be elected by you. Li Xuanqing's words can be regarded as pulling back everyone's previous playfulness, and everyone is also solemn, understanding that the next is the critical time.

"Actually, I don't think you need to be so serious, and if you want to say that you are in a serious mood, it is Brother Jianzhong, he, the prime minister, will be re-elected in three years, and he will lose." Li Xuanqing's words made the atmosphere of the scene a lot more lively. This palace banquet is also gradually coming to a climax.

After the palace banquet, the Tang Dynasty gradually matured politically and became stable, and the economic development within the empire also advanced by leaps and bounds after the implementation of the stimulus plan as an opportunity to dig the canal. Almost all the people have really felt the great changes in the Tang Empire this year, countless large-scale projects have broken ground in various parts of the empire, countless large-scale factories are also being put into operation one after another, and the light industry has also developed rapidly, and the people of the empire can make more money. All of this is driving the economy in a better direction. After several months of exploration, the armed gold force formed by the Ministry of Land and Resources and Xuanyingwei Hu Xiaosi also began to dig three gold mines in the central and southern regions, and began to send personnel to the Nanyang Islands, the three main islands of Sriwijaya, to explore for gold mines. In order to pursue short-term results, Hu Xiaosi directly transferred the remaining four brigades of the Flying Eagle Brigade under repair to the Tianzhu Peninsula in addition to the first brigade as a reserve, and asked Zhao Si to personally go to the Lion Country to command the Flying Eagle Brigade and the Tianzhu Branch to jointly loot the gold of all countries in the peninsula area, and Hu Xiaosi would not say anything about friendship and face to these indigenous countries, so that Zhao Si's order was to directly snatch it back as long as it was gold whether it was hidden in the vault or in the Buddha hall. If there is not enough manpower, the marines from the Western strongholds in various parts of the Tianzhu Peninsula can be dispatched to assist in helping, so Hu Xiaosi directly threw the highest naval action token taken from Guo Chongtao to Zhao Si.

The entire Tang Empire is in a state of active development and prosperity at this time, and the only shortcoming is already presided over by the most elite group headed by Hu Xiaosi. On the other side of the continent, it was faced with a different scene, after the Great Qin Empire destroyed the last stronghold of the Gauls, the Duchy of Normandy, part of the army moved north, together with the army of the Russian principality of Kiev, and began to storm the Vikings and Norwegians on the Baltic coast at the beginning of spring on the Tessie continent. Even in order to cut off future troubles, the Great Qin Empire once sent someone to inquire about the Tang Dynasty, asking the Tang Dynasty to be able to restrain the people of the Duchy of Dignes when necessary, otherwise for the sake of the overall situation of Taixi, the army of the Great Qin Empire will send troops to sweep away the worries when necessary. However, this request was blocked by Wan Yi and Usuke. Wu Jie is still good to say that this kind of struggle involving the empire itself is not something that the current Huang Jia can participate in, so both the king of Huang Jia and Wu Jie, who is responsible for commanding the army, directly pushed it to the Tang Dynasty, saying that the Duchy of Huang Jia was originally a vassal of the Tang Empire, and the command of the kingdom's army belonged to the Tang Empire. And Wan Yi directly said that the Tang Empire has no plan to enter Taixi, and the dispute between the Taixi people is still handed over to the Taixi people to deal with by themselves, but Wan Yi also said that regardless of the situation in Taixi, all countries must ensure the interests of the Tang Empire, otherwise the Tiance Army has the right to protect the interests of the empire from being violated. However, these words are basically some clichés, although Wan Yi also specially passed this matter to the cabinet and asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send a formal official document directly, but this official document itself represents an attitude of the Tang Dynasty, not interfering in Taixi affairs, and the disputes of the Taixi people are handed over to the Taixi people to deal with themselves, these key words still make Daqin put his mind at ease, and the Tang Dynasty will not participate in the specific affairs of Taixi's side. After receiving the official reply from the Tang Dynasty, the navy of the Great Qin Empire began to sail out from the Apennine Peninsula and Byzantine ports one after another, and assembled on the island of Cyprus and other places. If these naval fleets go straight to the coastal cities of the Great Food Empire on the south coast, I am afraid that the Great Food Navy in Tunisia and the ports of Phoenicia and Cairo in Egypt will be vulnerable at all. In this way, wouldn't the entire Mediterranean really become the backyard and transportation channel of the Great Qin Empire? Relying on the strength of the navy, the army of the Great Qin Empire could land from any point under its cover, thus forcing the army of the Great Food Empire to fortify everywhere along the Mediterranean coast.

Almost together with the intelligence personnel of the Great Food Empire, who had a close look at the assembly of the Great Qin Navy's fleet, there were also the secret guards of the Xuanying Guard's Taixi Branch led by Qin Kong. However, unlike the frightened spies of the Great Food Empire, Qin Kong and the Dark Guard were much calmer. Although this huge fleet group surprised everyone, these sailing ships were only a small child compared to the age of steam and ironclads in the Imperial Navy. Therefore, Qin Kong even had time to start slowly drawing the appearance of the main main battleship of the Great Qin Navy, and then sent people back to the base camp. This was originally an unintentional move but played a big role in the future, these picture books were sent to the Persian Governorate after Guo Chongtao saw them and handed them over to Qu Chengxing, who returned from the Red Sea, and the latter really came to learn and consult the Great Food Imperial Navy to design a few practical and reliable naval battle tactics, so that after the original Great Food Imperial Navy was annihilated, the fleet of new warships finally regained its disadvantage after entering the Mediterranean Sea from the Phoenician Canal that had just been opened, but this is all a later story. As the Great Qin Navy sailed out of the port and assembled one after another, the dispute surrounding the two empires of Great Qin and Great Food finally entered a white heat, and the Great Food Empire, which got the news, was almost non-stop and fully deployed, and the navy quickly assembled towards Phoenicia and Cairo, and part of the western navy began to implement the plan to encircle the Strait of Gibraltar in order to desperately maintain the connection between the Iberian Peninsula and the mainland of Africa. The expeditionary corps deployed by the army in the Iberian Peninsula were the first to respond, and the armies began to prepare to cross the Pyrenees and attack Daqin from the west. And in order to ensure the smooth implementation of this plan, the Great Cannibal has even secretly contacted Louis who has entered the island of England, inviting them to fight back to the mainland, and the Great Cannibal Empire promises not to occupy the territory of Gaul, and will send troops to fight against the Great Qin Empire with them.

However, it is clear that Baghdad did not pin all his hopes on the fleeing Gauls, and the expeditionary corps in the Iberian Peninsula were just cavalry that had always been able to harass the back of the Great Qin. The main corps of Baghdad was already concentrated in Egypt and on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the two closest regions to Byzantium. The huge cavalry corps and the specially formed 200,000 musket team have already been waiting for the battle, which is to concentrate nearly seventy percent of Baghdad's army strength, and it is obvious that Baghdad is ready to abandon most of Africa's territory and concentrate all its forces to take Byzantium and destroy the heart of the Great Qin Empire, so as to reverse the situation in one fell swoop.

This kind of imminent confrontation has come to an end, and there is no doubt about this whether it is the two sides of the confrontation or the command of the Tang Western Expeditionary Army, which is far away on the northwest front of the Tang Dynasty. Maybe the war broke out in the next moment, but unlike the two sides of the confrontation who were ready to do their best, Wan Yi's side chose to urgently return to the Chang'an base camp at this time. With Wan Yi returning to Chang'an to report on his work, Datang's external strategy has also reached the moment of adjustment.

However, at this time, Li Xuanqing did not pay too much attention to the battle on Taixi's side, although it can be seen from the map that has been perfected so far that the two civilizations at the east and west ends of the continent have taken completely different paths at this time. These two regions were even completely disrupted by their own arrival, Taixi was only afraid that no matter who won or lost this battle, it would completely enter another fork in the road, and the Tang Empire in the east, under his leadership, had completely bridged the darkness and turmoil that he had to experience when the century war was about to occur in the west, and jumped directly to the industrial age.

"It's time to open up the world." Li Xuanqing muttered to himself, but his eyes were aimed in the direction further east, and he didn't even notice it when he came in with Wan Yi and the others because he was concentrated.