Feng Yunshan didn't hurry to answer, turned his head to Zeng Shuiyuan and asked, "What do Zeng Aiqing and Zuo Aiqing have to say?" He knew that Zeng Shuiyuan had always been Yang Xiuqing's wise man, full of strategy, and one of the few extremely knowledgeable people in the kingdom of heaven, so he specially asked him. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info and Zuo Zongtang has always been his think tank.

Zeng Shuiyuan didn't expect Feng Yunshan to ask him by name, his face was slightly red, obviously a little excited, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that His Majesty's establishment of Wujing has a deep meaning!" Wei Chen speculated that His Majesty felt that Shengjing was not in the geographical center of our Chinese Empire, and was biased towards the area south of the Yangtze River, which was somewhat unfavorable to His Majesty's jurisdiction over the entire territory of the Empire. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded, turned his head and said aloud to everyone under the court: "Everyone Aiqing, Zeng Aiqing's statement explains very well the reason why I want to set up the other four capitals. However, this is not enough, can anyone still guess what I think? ”

Feng Yunshan glanced at everyone, the purpose of his interrogation was naturally to let his subordinates think diligently and plan such military affairs. Most of the subordinates in the original Heavenly Kingdom and the captive army were not scholars, they only knew how to lead troops to fight, and even the kind of fighting was to rush and kill, and they didn't have much strategy, let alone how to govern the place, so from now on, Feng Yunshan consciously interrogated these subordinates, which could be regarded as cultivating their strategies and plans to facilitate the governance of the country in the future.

"Your Majesty! Weichen thought that the establishment of the remaining four capitals would indeed help govern the Quartet, but it was also necessary to avoid the situation of local separation. Zuo Zongtang said bluntly and eloquently: "Weichen dared to guess that His Majesty will definitely station heavy troops under the direct management of His Majesty and the General Staff in the remaining four capitals, in addition to ensuring the safety of the four capitals, but also to ensure that His Majesty's will can reach the local government directly and the political affairs are accessible." ”

Wang Minyun also came out and said: "Your Majesty, the words of Lord Zeng and Lord Zuo, Weichen deeply thinks so. His Majesty did not set up military divisions in the six southern provinces under his rule when he was still a holy country, and Weichen thought that this method could continue to expand. The empire still set up military divisions in each of the existing provinces, garrisoned by local garrisons, and in the geographical position of the empire, several other major military districts were set up, corresponding to four sub-capitals or five capitals. The capital is divided into local areas, while the military region is divided into capitals, and it can supervise and restrain each other with the localities. ”

Feng Yunshan's eyes flashed, this Wang Minyun is worthy of being a famous man in history, and now he has been following him for a while, and he is different from the good governance in history, he is good at assisting the emperor's learning, and his vision is much broader. Coupled with his own great talent and strategy, this kind of vision, if it weren't for the fact that he had more than one hundred and sixty years of knowledge than him, I am afraid that he would not be able to compare with it.

Feng Yunshan praised: "Not bad! That's what I mean! ”

He paused, stood up from the throne, looked at the people under him, a sense of rebuke swelled in his chest, and blurted out: "I declare that the empire will take the original Nanjing City as the national capital and change its name to Shengjing!" In addition, four capitals will be set up in the east, west, south, and north of the empire's future territory, and these four capitals will be constantly adjusted according to the continuous expansion of the empire's territory. ”

As soon as Feng Yunshan's words came out, the court suddenly buzzed and exploded!

Most of the people in the hall originally thought that they were just following the example of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty and setting up four governors' palaces and the like, but they didn't expect that the meaning of the emperor's words was to constantly move these sub-capitals according to the expanding imperial territory. What shocked them the most was that at the beginning of the new dynasty, the emperor had set a strategy to continuously expand the territory of the empire, which made them very excited. Most of them were generals, and they thought that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was overthrown and they were going to turn to local governance, but they didn't expect that the emperor would now have the idea of continuous expansion.

Zuo Zongtang and Wang Minyun's eyes lit up, although they are scholars, they are learning to apply what they have learned, and now their strategic thinking is closely following Feng Yunshan's footsteps, they can naturally see that today's world is indeed a very suitable era for territorial expansion.

Luo Xuan said: "Your Majesty, where are these four capitals set up now?" If there is an empire that has not yet been occupied, Weichen is willing to lead the troops to capture it for His Majesty, and make this immortal feat! ”

Feng Yunshan said with a smile: "King Xin is in a hurry!" Rest assured, since I have designated the new country as an empire, there will naturally be wars! He turned to a serious face and said aloud to everyone: "For these four sub-capitals, my idea is: temporarily establish Shanghai City as Tokyo, responsible for the local governance of the eastern coastal area, with jurisdiction over Zhejiang, Fujian, Ryukyu, Korea and Yuben, implement the empire's strategy of fighting against the eastern sea, correspond to the establishment of the Eastern Theater, set up three major naval bases such as Zhoushan, Taiwan, and Ryukyu, and focus on the development of the Offshore Fleet. ”

"The city of Guangzhou was temporarily established as Nanjing, responsible for the local governance of the southern region and the coast, with jurisdiction over Liangguang, Lianghu, Jiangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan, and responsible for the implementation of the empire's strategy of fighting in Southeast Asia, South Asia and the southern sea, corresponding to the establishment of the Southern Theater, the establishment of three naval bases in Guangzhou, Qinzhou and Qiongzhou, and the focus on the development of the offshore fleet."

"Xi'an was temporarily established as Xijing, responsible for the governance of the vast western region, with jurisdiction over Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai-Tibet, Xinjiang, Uriya Sutai and other northwest regions, and responsible for the implementation of the empire's defense and expansion strategy for the west and north, corresponding to the establishment of the Western Theater, the establishment of Xi'an, Chengdu, Lanzhou, Ili and Uriya Sutai, the five major army bases, focusing on the development of infantry and cavalry units."

"The city of Beijing was temporarily established as Beijing, responsible for the local governance of the northern region, with jurisdiction over Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi and other places, and responsible for the implementation of the empire's operations against the six major alliances and three major departments of the Eastern Mongols, Shengjing, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Siberia, and the corresponding establishment of the Northern Theater of Operations, the establishment of Beijing, Suiyuan, Kulun, Heilongjiang four continental military bases, Dengzhou, Sakhalin two major naval bases, focusing on the development of the northern alpine combat forces."

"The remaining Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu are under the direct jurisdiction of Shengjing, and the Central Theater will be established to develop artillery units, special forces, and inland river fleets." Feng Yunshan announced his plan in one go, while Zuo Zongtang and the others desperately remembered it, lest they miss a word.

Zuo Zongtang, as the actual person in charge of the General Staff, heard Feng Yunshan's idea, and his mind suddenly exploded, he remembered a map of the world that he had seen in the Holy King's Palace, and immediately understood that many of the place names had also been mentioned there.

He didn't expect that the emperor's thinking was so far-reaching, and he had already looked at a place that the Chinese clan had never been to since ancient times. Thinking of restoring the glory of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, I couldn't help but feel hot in my heart. He knew that the emperor was not too ambitious, nor was he boastful, and he had confidence in the emperor that he could create miracles that he could not imagine.

Wang Minyun's eyes were even straighter. He has always thought that he has a broad strategic vision, but he didn't expect that today's emperor's words made him realize that the gap between himself and the emperor is still so big. Your Majesty, this is simply to establish a supreme empire that surpasses Meng Yuan. As soon as he thought of this, Wang Minyun's blood boiled, he didn't speak, just looked at the emperor standing on the steps with admiration.

The other generals in the audience, especially the generals who had originally returned to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zeng Shuiyuan, Yang Fuqing, Xu Zongyang and others, were even more surprised, except for Zeng Shuiyuan, who had read some books, had a wider range of knowledge, and barely understood Feng Yunshan's grand ambitions, the rest of the people were dumbfounded, only to feel that the places that the emperor said did not know where they were.

But Li Xiucheng, like Luo Outline and others, had bright eyes. For the first time, he understood why the King of the South was stronger than the King of Heaven and the King of the East. The king of heaven only knows that in the palace of the king, he writes holy scriptures, makes those limerick poems, and teaches the princesses and female officials in the palace; And although the East King was worried about the affairs of the Heavenly Kingdom, he only stared at the two large camps of the Qing Demon in the north and south on the outskirts of Tianjing.

Only the vision of the king of the south has far surpassed ordinary people, Li Xiucheng can't figure out where Siberia is, he doesn't even know where Sakhalin and Kulen are, but he understands that although he doesn't know where these places are, from the emperor's words, he can analyze that it should be far north. For such an ambition of the emperor, in addition to admiration, he clenched his fists more, secretly planning to perform well, get the favor of His Majesty, and act as a sword in his hand.