The 100th year of the Great Song Dynasty and the 1226th year of the Western calendar. When the news of Brusa, the last stronghold of the Western Liao Empire, once again besieged Brusa, the last stronghold of the Western Liao Empire, reached Jiangning Province, the Eastern Song Dynasty was under the rule of Zhao Kuang, the fifth generation of kings and the unruly ruler.

The official name of the Eastern Song Dynasty was also "Song", not a United States. The nomenclature of the form of government and the name of the country is not popular here in East Asia. Therefore, the official name of the Great Zhou is not the Great Zhou Republic, but "Zhou".

However, the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty marked their own totality in a special way, that is, the era name.

Unlike the Western Song Dynasty, where an emperor used several era names, the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty were both used from the beginning to the end.

The era name of the Great Zhou Dynasty is "Republic", indicating that its political system is a republic in which the world is for the public.

The era name of the Eastern Song Dynasty is "United People", indicating that the country must unite the strength of the people in order to exist.

Since it is "united", then there is no possibility of the existence of "one husband".

Therefore, Zhao Kuang, a Great Song Dynasty official, is a constitutional monarch by the standards of later generations.

He lived in a very lavishly decorated palace, with enviable wealth, beautiful queens and concubines, and was served by a large number of servants every day, and lived an elegant and leisurely life. There is hardly any national affairs to deal with...... The Eastern Song Dynasty has never had an emperor who takes care of business. Even the founding king Zhao Kai didn't care about anything, and all major national affairs were discussed by Empress Wu Meiniang and the representatives elected by the Eighteen States.

After Zhao Kai's death, it was Empress Dowager Wu who came to the court, and she still negotiated with the representatives of the United States.

After the death of Wu Mei Niang, the Eastern Song Dynasty entered the era of prime ministership.

The successive generations of Eastern Song emperors focused on enjoying life and running the New Song Dynasty, and did not care much about the politics of their own country.

Of course, they don't have to worry about usurpation or anything. Because there is no unified power center under the United Mass system, there is naturally no possibility of a coup d'état seizing power from the central government.

It is unthinkable that what Zhao Kuangyin did in Chenqiaoyi back then would be put on hold in the Eastern Song Dynasty, and no one in the 50 United States would buy it.

Moreover, the military backbone that maintained the Eastern Song Dynasty was not the army, but the navy.

The navy is inherently inconvenient to carry out a coup d'état, and the sailors got off the ship to fight the Jiangning Castle? It's the largest and strongest fortress in the world! How can a bunch of sailors fight down?

The army stationed in the fortress was in turn subject to the Yangtze River Fleet of the Eastern Song Dynasty Navy.

Without the Yangtze River Fleet, Jiangning Fortress is an isolated island, and it can't even supply food, so what kind of mutiny is there to make?

Therefore, under the system of the united states and the containment of the sea and land, the emperor of the Eastern Song Dynasty had no possibility of being overthrown by careerists. You can rest assured that you will be able to hand over power to the Prime Minister and the Parliament of the United States and enjoy life yourself.

However, the emperor's long-term stay away from power also has a disadvantage, that is, the authority of the central government of the Eastern Song Dynasty cannot be established for a long time, and the whole country is very loose.

Because the country is too loose, it will not be able to unite and form a strong fighting force. Therefore, the Eastern Song Dynasty obviously had the same population and financial resources as the Great Zhou, but it was very weak in the post-Three Kingdoms era.

The country never launched an attack on the lands of the Western Song or Great Zhou. In the two Central Plains Wars, the Eastern Song Dynasty was the passive side that was beaten.

Even if the Yangtze River Fleet beat the sailors of the Western Song Dynasty, it would not take a step beyond the Lei Chi and enter the Yangtze River owned by the Western Song Dynasty to fight.

Of course, the weakness of the Eastern Song Dynasty was only relative to the two super powers of the Western Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou. In dealing with the rest of the world, it is a completely disgusting posture of the imperialist powers.

In fact, during the 100 years since the founding of the Eastern Song Dynasty, this imperialist country has launched even more wars of aggression than the Great Zhou Republic!

Including Chenla, Siam, Bagan, Ceylon, Polo, Zhuran, Pandia, Zalouqi, Bali, Honolulu, Sriwijaya, Zagwise, Dashi Seljuk, Ghana, Mali, and even Portugal and the Caliphate of Córdoba on the European continent were invaded by the Eastern Song Dynasty imperialists...... I don't know how many of the various unequal treaties I took.

As for those indigenous peoples who have not yet established a civilized state, they were bullied by the Eastern Song Dynasty imperialism. It's hard to overstate the bad things you've done!

Zhao Kuang, who fooled around with a few Persian maiko until late at night last night, slept as usual today, and didn't get up until three poles in the morning. After washing, I had lunch again, and when it was almost time to summon Prime Minister Shi Miyuan in his Changle Palace.

Zhao Kuang, who ignores the government and politics, knows that the emperor who spends money and enjoys is of course a faint monarch. And the prime minister used by the faint monarch is naturally also a traitor, and this Shi Miyuan is a recognized traitor!

The reason why he was elected was not because of his high moral integrity, nor because he had any outstanding contributions or talents, but because he was good at conducting party struggles.

The gentleman is not a party or something, it has long been a joke in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty.

The politics of these two countries is all about party struggle!

Among them, the executive and legislative aspects of the Great Zhou are separated to a certain extent. Although the head of state is also elected by the senators, the term of office of the head of state is five years, and it is difficult to remove the head of state before the end of his term.

Because the impeachment of the Führer requires more than two-thirds of the senators to vote in favor!

In this case, the administration of Da Zhou is relatively stable, and the party struggle does not seem to be very fierce.

The Eastern Song Dynasty, on the other hand, implemented a system similar to that of a responsible cabinet, with administrative and legislative screws together. The prime minister only needs to lose the support of a simple parliamentary majority before facing resignation.

At the same time, the government of the 50-state coalition is very conducive to the growth of local political factions. Therefore, there were many small parties in the privy council of the Eastern Song Dynasty, unlike the original monarchists in the Senate of the Great Zhou Republic. Rather, there are dozens of small parties, none of which can control the parliamentary majority.

In such cases, politicians who are good at engaging in political bargaining often come to the fore and get the opportunity to become prime minister.

As a result, there will inevitably be many black box operations in the politics of the Eastern Song Dynasty, and Shi Miyuan is a master of playing black box politics. That's why he became a tumbler in the political arena of the Eastern Song Dynasty and held the prime minister's throne for ten consecutive years.

However, this politician who is good at engaging in black box politics will only mess around after getting the prime minister's throne. It's been ten years since he was in power, and he can't say anything about his political achievements. The only thing that can be boasted of is that it has launched several wars of aggression against the Polo Kingdom, the Zhuran Kingdom, and the Zhenla Kingdom.

Anyway, they are all bullying the weak, extorting a little compensation, occupying a few concessions, and signing a few unequal treaties.

Today, Shi Miyuan once again appeared in front of Zhao Kuang with a spring breeze on his face, and bowed to Zhao Kuang according to etiquette.

"Shi Qing, is there any happy event?" Zhao Kuang smiled and asked Shi Treacherous.

"Back to Your Majesty," Shi Miyuan said with a smile, "the Ministry of Rites has just received an urgent letter from Egypt, and the army of the Mongol Great Khan Temujin has besieged Brusa, the capital of Western Liao, for the third time. ”

"Oh, it's a happy event?" Zhao Kuang was stunned.

"Of course it's a happy event." Shi Miyuan explained, "According to Wu Zi'an's report, this time Brusa is most likely to be lost. The fall of the Western Liao country is only in the end. Once the Western Liao was destroyed, the Mongols would attack the Eastern Romans. Then the whole of Europe will be involved in the war with the Mongols.

And we, the Great Song Dynasty, will have the opportunity to open up more concessions in Europe and sign more trade treaties. ”

Now Europe, especially Western Europe, has become the center of gravity of colonial competition in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty. Both countries are trying their best to knock on the door of European countries, and if Temujin invades the territory of Eastern Rome, it will obviously be a good thing for the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty to colonize Europe.

Zhao Kuang nodded, "It's a happy event, but it's not very interesting...... Shi Qing, is there anything else interesting to say? ”

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About 10 years have passed since Temujin's setback at Ireburg. During these 10 years, the Great Mongols wisely adopted the strategy of dragging their feet in the east and attacking the west.

The so-called eastward drag refers to the use of scorched earth delaying tactics against the Western Song Dynasty on the Central Asian battlefield in the east and resolutely avoiding a decisive battle.

Under the guidance of this strategic thinking, the Mongol army under the command of Chagatai never suffered such a heavy loss as the Battle of Yirebao. At the same time, it also effectively delayed the advance of the Western Song army.

So far, the Western Song Dynasty army has just advanced to the Chachi area, and finally lifted the "long siege" of Xinliangzhou in the Western Liang Kingdom for more than ten years.

However, the more than ten years of Western Expedition also made the Western Song Dynasty feel a little tasteless and a pity to abandon it.

The reason why the food was tasteless was because the scorched earth tactics of the Mongols made it difficult for the Song army to obtain rich land and cities. What was taken down was barren and sparsely populated.

It is very difficult to reclaim barren land, and if it is a desert oasis, it will directly destroy the ecology, and it is impossible to restore it.

And the lack of human population means that the military lords of the Western Song Dynasty have no object to enslave at all!

If there are no working people, the lord will have to work by himself, how fortunate is this?

It is a pity to abandon it because the territory of the Ili River Valley, the Broken Leaf River Valley and the Chachi Plain is so good. These sites are all around the Tien Shan and Gisar Alai Mountains, and three major rivers, the Ili, the Shaye and the Khuzhang and Syr Darya, flow through these areas.

In addition, snowmelt from the Tien Shan Mountains constantly replenishes the water of these lands.

The land in the Western Regions is actually relatively fertile, although it is not as good as the black soil, but it is much more fertile than the Guanlong Central Plains, which has been cultivated for more than 1,000 years and has long been exhausted. As long as there is water, it is a good place.

Moreover, the Ili River Valley, the Broken Leaf River Valley, and the Chachi Plain are very open, and the three pieces of land plus one are several times larger than the Guanzhong Plain. If all of them are reclaimed, there will be 100 million acres of arable land.

In addition, in the northwest of the Broken Leaf River Valley is the Land of the Seven Rivers and the Kipchak Grassland. That's a boundless and rich grassland! Compared with the Mobei and Monan grasslands adjacent to the Central Plains, I don't know how much richer.

Because the steppe is too rich, the barbarians who originally lived there and the Mongols from outside the country were fiercer and easier to deal with. Before the Mongol invasion, handicrafts from Xinliangzhou and other places could be exchanged for a lot of cattle, sheep and horses from those barbarians.

For the Western Song Dynasty, which did not have much good territory, only the Sichuan Basin and the Jianghan Plain were good, and these still green lands in Central Asia were also quite attractive.

Therefore, it was impossible for the Western Song Dynasty to give up the Central Asian territory in their hands, so they had to develop it head-on.

This side of occupation, while developing, but also to immigrate and set up vassal kings, of course, has to fight with the Xiliang Kingdom.

The pace of the Western Song Dynasty in Central Asia naturally slowed down.

In the west of Chachi and Ferghana, because there is no moisture from the snowmelt of the Tianshan Mountains, the climate is drier, and there are no more humid areas like the Ili River Valley, the Broken Leaf River Valley, and the Chachi Plain. Therefore, the war in Central Asia has entered a stalemate period.

Temujin, who did not have to worry about any further changes in the direction of Central Asia, could now devote all his energies to the conquest of Asia Minor.

By the way, Temujin in this plane was not as brutal as it was in history. He was not a barbarian born in the bitter cold land of the Ural River, but a European who grew up on the banks of the Ural River.

The steppes of Eastern Europe and the steppes of Mongolia are not the same thing at all!

Although Temujin also lost his father when he was a child, he did not endure real hunger and cold, let alone kill his own brother for a fish, and the Temujin family living in Qiyan Fort had an inheritance that should have been left behind, so they did not have to worry about food and drink.

Moreover, he converted to the Bright Heavens Religion since he was a child, received a good education in the school of the Bright Church, and his ferocity was greatly restrained.

Later, although Temujin suffered a lot in the Dashi Guards Youth League, the hardships of training and the hardships of wandering the northern grasslands were incomparable.

Therefore, different growth experiences also gave Temujin a different understanding of "scorched earth tactics".

Although he ordered the destruction of many oases and cities in Central Asia, he did not massacre their inhabitants. Instead, they were relocated to the area around Qiyanbao. As the monarch of a civilized country, he certainly knew the importance of population to the Great Mongolian State. In fact, the Mongols who migrated to the banks of the Ural River are no longer nomadic, but fixed herding and farming, and have become a sedentary people.

Now the displaced Central Asian farmers have been given land in the Ural River valley and on the northern shore of the Caspian Sea. Craftsmen and merchants became residents of Qiyanbao.

As a result, Qiyanbao developed into a large city in the lower reaches of the Ural River.

The nobles and craftsmen who were able to produce weapons were relocated to Tabriz, where they became officials and craftsmen of the Great Khan.

With the help of artisans from Central Asia and Persia, Temujin's army was able to set up a makeshift cannon casting workshop outside Brusa, where more than a dozen oversized siege guns were cast. In addition, Mongolia purchased heavy artillery produced by the Great Zhou and Western Song Dynasty through Egypt.

Now the Mongol army has the means to destroy the defenses of Brusa!

The end of the Western Liao Empire has finally arrived.

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