At the same time as the nationalization of land and the reform of the imperial examination system, Yang Feng also began to carry out drastic reforms of the official and military systems of the Great Song Dynasty.

First of all, the cabinet system was established.

Only one prime minister remained, the left and right ministers, and the governor's political affairs and the like were all abolished, and the ministers were members of the cabinet, but the number of ministries increased significantly, and the functions of the original ministries were redetermined, such as the criminal department actually became the Ministry of Justice, and Dali Temple is the Supreme Court, the criminal department no longer has the power to administer the trial, and even the power to arrest people is attributed to the newly established police department. In short, the Great Song Dynasty was completely modernized, and those inexplicable official positions were all gone, especially the official positions of the Three Princes and other officials who had long been paid but not worked were completely abolished, and in the future, the Great Song Dynasty would no longer have those fictitious positions that would hardly be used except for those engraved on the stele.

The Privy Council remains.

However, the Privy Council has in fact become a special military body, equivalent to the Supreme High Command, with the General Staff and other ministries, and the heads of each department serve directly to the Empress as privy envoys, and the Privy Councillors are appointed by the Empress from among the generals of the army and included in the cabinet.

The degree branch was changed to the Ministry of Finance, and the local commanders and transit envoys were returned to the Ministry of Finance.

Salt and iron make revocation.

The iron industry is no longer monopolized, and the salt industry is owned by the state-owned salt company, not only the salt industry, but also a large number of state-owned monopoly enterprises, such as grain companies, and these state-owned monopoly enterprises belong to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission directly under the empress, in other words, the empress directly belongs not only to the SASAC, but also to the National Development and Reform Commission! However, these two institutions are still very inconspicuous at this time, at most equivalent to the nature of the empress's ministers, well, in fact, the officials of these two institutions are indeed eunuchs, they are only responsible for the management of those state-owned enterprises, and the other is to plan the development of these state-owned enterprises in a planned economic way, to be precise, it is the queen's housekeeper.

However, the development of the private economy has nothing to do with these two institutions, and they are only responsible for managing those state-owned enterprises.

In short, the Great Song Dynasty reformed by Yang Feng actually ......

In fact, it is a freak, a mixture of constitutional monarchy and feudal autocracy, a mixture of planned economy and free economy, the vigorous development of capitalism and socialism coexist, but it coexists in a feudal empire, where astronomy and geography are learned in the primary school of compulsory education, where the study of poetry and books is read in the study of the Four Books and the Five Classics, where the county yamen is flailed for public display, and where the old man in the public nursing home walks on crutches, everything is so weirdly coexisting.

However, Yang Feng did not make much reform in the army, after all, the poor combat effectiveness of the Song army was only because civilian officials commanded the army, but it was not bad in terms of itself.

The Privy Council was reformed, and the system in various localities was also turned into a military position in the Privy Council system, and the Xuanfu envoy had no right to interfere in the army, and those already useless temperance envoys in various localities were abolished, and the military establishment was clarified, and the army was commanded by the command of each army, and the Privy Council was the commander of the theater, and the Privy Council was the supreme commander. There is a reasonable command system and perfect logistics and preferential measures, and the important thing is to have cavalry that can fight to a certain extent, and then gradually turn the heavy infantry armor of the Song army into armor, which is enough to crush the enemy with absolute superiority in population and economy. There is no need for muskets and cannons, the heavy infantry with the Divine Arm Bow and Tomahawk Knife is more than enough to cope with this era, especially with the addition of primary firearms such as black powder grenades, fireball arrows, and even three-eyed guns.

Cannons or anything really don't need it.

The main reason is that Yang Feng has offended too many people over the years, and he is afraid that one day someone will secretly give him a shot.

What's more, copper is needed to make cannons, and copper is still very precious to him, the entire Great Song Dynasty lacks this kind of circulating currency, and it is still too luxurious to use it to make cannons before there is excess copper, as for the arquebus, it is not very interesting, Yang Feng is ready to evolve directly to the flintlock pistol in a few years.

In short, the Great Song Dynasty entered an era of peaceful development.

The state of peace between the Song and Yuan dynasties lasted for twenty years.

During this period, Kublai Khan continued to expand westward.

He formed an alliance with Hulegu, with the Ilkhanate as his vassal, and after Hulegu's death, his successor Abha accepted Kublai Khan's edict and cooperated in defeating the younger brother of the Chahatai Khanate, who was the younger brother of Batu, and the Jochi and Tuolei clans fought a multi-year war over control of the Chahatai Khanate. The Haidu of the Ögedai system supported the Jochi system, including Ali Buge, who was defeated by Kublai Khan, but the final result was still the failure of the Jochi system, and the Golden Horde temporarily withdrew from the competition for the Chahatai Khanate, and Haidu recognized Kublai Khan's status as a great khan in exchange, and became a vassal of Kublai Khan like the eight of the Chahatai Khanate, Ali Buge died of illness, and Timur, the busy brother of the Golden Horde, also symbolically recognized Kublai Khan's status as the Great Khan.

Thus ended the civil war in the Mongol tribes.

And Kublai Khan finally got the status of the co-ruler of the Mongol tribes.

Although only symbolic.

After the end of the civil war, the combined forces of the Yuan, the Ilkhanate, the Chahatai Khanate, and the Ögedai Khanate immediately moved south from Afghanistan to attack the Delhi Sultanate, and the Delhi Sultanate, which had defeated the Mongol army once, did not block the Mongol iron cavalry this time, after all, they had only defeated a partial division before, and this time it was the elite of the Mongol tribes.

A coalition of 100,000 troops led by Khan Bara of the Chahatai Khanate swept across the Indus Valley.

The Delhi Sultanate fought the Mongol army in Punjab with an elephant array, but the accompanying Yuan army exploded the elephant array with gunpowder, and the 200,000 troops of the Delhi Sultanate collapsed, and the Mongol coalition pursued and broke through Delhi, and then bloodied the city. Despite the uncontrollable distance, and the arrival of the Delhi Sultanate's troops from the east and south, the last of the great armies of Bara had to withdraw to the river, the countless treasures looted in the city of Delhi still plundered the Mongol tribes, which had not been in such a good way for a long time, into a state of excitement, and the legendary wealth of India had been confirmed. For a long time after that, the combined forces of the Ilkhanate, the Chahatai Khanate and the Ögedai Khanate, continued to pass through the strategic passage of Afghanistan to the south, and the blood of the Ganges continued to flow, and even the Chahatay Khanate completely controlled the upper reaches of the Indus River, that is, the area around Peshawar.

The Mongol invasion made the Delhi Sultanate and the Great Song Dynasty natural allies.

The new merchant ships that were constantly launched also provided a stable and reliable connection between the two countries, and in order to ease the pressure on the Delhi Sultanate by attacking the Mongols from the east as soon as they had enough cavalry, the Empress of the Great Song Dynasty promised to attack the Mongols from the east, and the latter gave the Song merchants the green light to purchase Mavarima from their own territory. This kind of excellent war horses that are not inferior to Arabian horses continue to arrive in the military horse farms of Hebei and Sichuan, coupled with the Arab horses and even European horses that Yang Feng obtained from Hebei before, the Song army finally got rid of the embarrassing situation of lack of war horses, and they also have high-end war horses that far surpass the Mongols.

Not only Mawari horses, but Yang Feng also purchased Arabian horses, and he even built special merchant ships for transporting horses.

And the Mawarima is, of course, bought from Egypt.

His East-West cooperation in besieging the Mongols attracted not only the Delhi Sultanate, but also the Mamluks, because of the lure of the Egyptian El Dorado and the dreamy steppes of the south, the Ilkhanate Khan Abha, supported by Kublai Khan, resumed his offensive on the Fertile Crescent. Although Mamluk can still withstand it, but it is also very difficult, they only defeated a Mongolian team of 10,000 people, if it were not for Meng Ge's death and Hulegu withdrawal, the two sides will definitely lose if they continue to fight, the strength of the two sides is not a level, Mamluk is an elite cavalry, and their number cannot stop the endless Mongolian iron cavalry.

In this way, they also wanted to see the Great Song attack on the Mongol back from the east, and they also gave the Green Light to the Great Song merchants to purchase high-quality Arabian horses.

But there's one thing they don't know.

At the same time that these Great Song merchants came from the sea to trade with them, several merchants with special status also landed in East Africa, and bribed the local chiefs with a lot of money, and then went west to the interior of Africa, reaching the legendary dream grassland......

It was the rainy season when they went.

In this way, the East African steppes unfolded in front of them in a shocking way, and then, through the brush of one of the painters, it became a spectacular picture, and after tens of thousands of miles, it was displayed in front of Kublai Khan, the capital. The result of this painting was Kublai Khan's westward tour and convening a general assembly of ministries on the banks of the Syr Darya River, at which Kublai Khan used the pretext of Haidu's conspiracy to assassinate him by beheading Haidu, who had always had a bad relationship with him, and annexing his territory of the Ögedai Khanate. In addition, he forced the Chagatai Khanate to surrender a large area of land to him, and then began to build his western capital in the upper reaches of the Chu River, and abandoned the occupation of Dali, the Mongol army in Dali withdrew to the north and turned west, and a large number of people moved from Guanzhong, Shanxi and Liaodong to the Western Regions......

He's planning a way back.

After all, he also knew very well that the peace between him and Yang Feng was not indefinite, the latter would still have to do something to him after all, and he couldn't stop Yang Feng until he could find a way to deal with Yang Feng.

Since you can't stop it, it's better to hide away.

And if he wants to hide far away, he must go west and clarify his identity as the Great Khan of all Mongolia, after all, the only thing he can conquer is the West, whether it is the legendary rich Europe or the dreamy steppe in the south, he must continue to attack the west, fortunately, except for Mamluk, there is no enemy who can fight him in the west, and Mamluk cannot withstand hundreds of thousands of Mongol troops, and the westward expedition will definitely succeed. But before that could happen, the khanates and their cousins, nephews, and nephews must be truly accepted by him, and the most effective way to do that was to establish a capital city in the west and move their most loyal subjects to the west as much as possible.

The establishment of this western capital represented a radical change in the strategic direction of the Yuan Empire.

It also means the end of peace.