Since the establishment of the cabinet, all the affairs of the imperial court have basically been handled by the cabinet, and the first assistant of the cabinet only needs to transfer the major affairs of the day to the emperor. In addition, in addition to attending cabinet meetings every once in a while and listening to the reports of the heads of various cabinet ministries, the emperor can also hold cabinet meetings according to the actual situation.

It can be said that the existence of the cabinet completely freed Sima Shu from the heavy daily affairs, Sima Shu did not want to become those emperors in history, he was dragged down by daily official duties, and he wanted to live a few more years. Therefore, in the past few years, in addition to firmly grasping the military power in his hands, he has basically handed over government affairs to the cabinet.

After winning the first battle against the Hu people, the Great Jin once again gained the opportunity for rapid development. Especially in the newly reclaimed areas, a large amount of infrastructure construction has officially begun, making most of the annexed states look like a busy construction site.

With the help of past experience, the first thing to start is mainly the construction of highways. This time, a large number of Hu prisoners provided sufficient human resources for infrastructure construction, and with abundant funds and labor, it was decided to start construction of several highways at the same time after repeated deliberations by the cabinet.

Guanzhong and the Central Plains are fine, and the road from Guzang to Donglai is less than a quarter of the way to be completed. At the end of last year, the highway from Chengdu to Chang'an was officially put into use, which completely improved the traffic situation in Shudi, and also greatly strengthened the connection between Shuzhong and Guanzhong.

After nearly five years of continuous construction, the traffic situation in Xiazhou County under the control of the imperial court has been thoroughly improved. However, the Bingzhou and Youzhou regions, which were previously occupied by the Hu people, were completely blank. In order to speed up the recovery of the state's economy, the Cabinet immediately began construction of the state's infrastructure before the end of the war in the north.

In order to completely transform the state, the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture of the imperial court, with the support of the Jin army, began to carry out a large-scale liquidation of the Hu people and Haoqiang in the state, and all Hu people and heroes will have all their property and land confiscated.

The land of the Hu people was confiscated, and the imperial court did not distribute it to the local commoners according to the household, but according to the experience of the Central Plains, with the support of the technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture. A large number of ordinary people are based on villages or counties. A large number of joint-stock farms were formed. Although the people lacked relevant experience at first, under the guidance of the imperial court, they gradually understood the benefits of the new system, and more and more people began to take the initiative to participate.

After five years of practice. The whole court knew very well. If a locality's economy wants to achieve great development, it cannot do without agriculture and industry. After settling down and state agriculture. In terms of industry, since it has always been the most important thing for the imperial court, it was after recovering the lost territory. The imperial court immediately called on the directors of major factories in the Central Plains and the agents of the consortium to invest and build factories in Bingzhou.

After getting the promise of the imperial court, those big families, local tyrants, and major chambers of commerce immediately invested three million yuan to promote the local industrial development of the state. The royal family will not give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and Sima Shu himself knows that there are a lot of coal resources in Bingzhou.

Therefore, under the thread of Sima Shu, the royal family prepared to form a large trust for coal production in Bingzhou. When the royal family members who had benefited greatly from the sea trade heard the news, they invested heavily in this new group.

Nowadays, the entire southern part of the state has begun to develop vigorously. This northern war greatly stimulated the economic development of the Great Jin. Although it also increased the financial burden of the imperial court, it also greatly promoted the development of factories in various places. In particular, the factories linked to the military have been greatly developed, and they have basically expanded several times more than before the war.

In the Jiade Hall of the Imperial Palace, Sima Shu, Zhang Hua, Zhang Bin, Pei Wei, Zhou Chu and Zhu Zheng, six people were sitting around under a map of the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty, discussing the situation in front of them. This is the first time Zhang Hua has appeared on a formal occasion since he was seriously ill, and since Zhang Hua became seriously ill a few years ago, he has been concentrating on recuperation and recuperation.

This is also thanks to Zheng Yin, the holy hand of the apricot forest, otherwise Zhang Hua might have really passed like this. But even so, he still recuperated from this illness for three or four years, and after this period of recuperation, although Zhang Hua can no longer take on heavy responsibilities as before, it is still okay to occasionally attend some important meetings.

Zhang Hua himself is also self-aware, his body no longer allows him to take on official positions, so after this return, Zhang Hua did not grab the title of first assistant to the cabinet as some people imagined, but participated in the formulation of imperial court policies as a national policy adviser.

This is also another major reform of Emperor Sima Shu in terms of official positions, with the acceleration of the unification process of the imperial court, there will be more and more veterans and important ministers like Zhang Hua in the future. When encountering a strong emperor like Sima Shu, it is estimated that he can still suppress the other party, and if he encounters some emperors with weak personalities, the old and important ministers will often become an obstacle to the new monarch's rule.

In order to find a way out for future children and grandchildren, Sima Shu took advantage of the opportunity paid by Zhang Hua to officially launch the title of national policy adviser, and in the future, veteran ministers like Zhang Hua can gradually withdraw from the stage of history in this way, giving the opportunity to younger descendants.

Of course, in order to prevent the other side from interfering in the affairs of the state, the advisers had nothing but the right to advise, and they were basically the emperor's personal advisors, so that the new emperor could not only draw on the experience of the other party but also promote his own policies without interference.

"Your Majesty, after half a month of combing, half of the merger state has been fully integrated into the rule of the Great Jin. Those stubborn resistance forces of the Hu people, under the strong blows of the Jin army, have long disappeared. However, because the Huns in Taiyuan have not been eliminated, they still threaten the local stability of Bingzhou, and the local people of Bingzhou have not completely relaxed. ”

"Therefore, the Privy Council recommended that while the army was moving and recuperating, it was prepared to speed up the construction of the local governor's office, so that the garrison troops could concentrate on field tasks." At the top of the Privy Council, he went to the front line to supervise the war, and now the daily work of the entire Privy Council is presided over by Zhu Zheng, the secretary of the Admiralty.

"Hmmm! Yes, I approve of the Privy Council's proposal! Sima Shu replied that he was more concerned about the control of the army than in government affairs. In any era, whoever has a gun in his hand, whoever says it will be useful.

In order to secure Sima Shu's own rule, he had to keep the army firmly in his hands. Fortunately, the current high-ranking generals of the army are basically cultivated and promoted by him, and they are naturally loyal to him. The middle and low-level officers are basically from the major officer academies and non-commissioned officer academies. These academy-born officers were actually more loyal to the emperor than others.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what advice do you have for everyone in the Western Regions?" Sima Shu asked.

"Your Majesty! The General Administration of the Military Service initially considered this: Now that the imperial court is about to recover the entire Hexi Corridor, it is the best time for us to return to the Western Regions. In order to grab the greatest benefits, the Military Affairs Department suggested that the imperial court increase its support for the Northwest Theater! It's best to join the Northwest Raiders in the Jin Army, which has dropped ten to fifteen compartments! Zhu Zheng replied.

"Huh? Do we still have troops to adjust? Sima Shu was a little dissatisfied with the suggestion put forward by the Military Affairs Bureau, you must know that before the war, there were 110 boxes and 330,000 troops in the entire Great Jin Dynasty, and in addition to the Huainan important land, a total of 90 infantry and cavalry coalition troops are currently distributed on the northern front.

After the outbreak of the Northern War, in order to make up for the lack of troops, Sima Shu ordered the expansion of the 30-chamber army. Even so, it was still sufficient to meet the needs of the war, and there were no spare troops to reinforce the northwest.

"Your Majesty, it's better for us to stop at Yumen Pass this year to recover the Hexi Corridor as medicine, as for the various places in the Western Regions, let's put it back for a few years, and wait until the end of the Northern War, and then we will go all out to the west." Before everyone spoke, Zhang Hua unexpectedly expressed his opinion.

After listening to Zhang Hua's suggestion, Sima Shu weighed it carefully, and finally agreed to the other party's advice. After a period of calmness, Sima Shu also thought that he was a little anxious. It seems that under the successive victories, even he, the emperor, is a little anxious. At present, it is indeed not appropriate for the Jin army to intervene in the Western Regions too early.

Although the Western Regions have always been the sphere of influence of China in history, there is a good saying that county officials are not as good as they are in charge! Since the Central Plains forces gradually withdrew from the Western Regions at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Western Regions were gradually controlled by the nomads in the north and the countries in the west. Now that the Jin Dynasty has recovered the Hexi Corridor, the Western Regions will face a three-way hegemony.

On one side was the gradually rising Central Plains Dynasty, on the other hand, there were extremely destructive Xianbei forces, and finally there were countries further west to intervene. In this case, Dajin's slow pace is indeed the best choice. Otherwise, once the Great Jin blindly occupies the Western Regions with military force, it will be attacked on both sides and will need to be heavily defended, which seems to be a bit more than worth the loss.

"If the pace of the march into the Western Regions is slowed down, then after the Northwest Army takes the Hexi Corridor, where will their main force be used? You can't leave tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses idle, right? Zhang Bin asked with a frown.

"I have an idea about that. Since there is nowhere to start in the Western Regions, why not wait for an opportunity to attack the Xihai (present-day Qinghai) Plateau? Now, with the annexation of many Qiang people to the imperial court, the imperial court can use these Qiang people to form a group of plateau van armies, and they will be responsible for navigating the entire northwest plateau. ”

"Your Majesty, are you worried about the Tuyuhun tribe?" None of the people present had a low IQ, and as soon as Sima Shu said it, they understood its true purpose.

"Yes, I really don't worry about Tuyuhun, Murong Tuyuhun is a generation of heroes, and he has grown in strength through cooperation with my Dajin tribe over the years. From a small tribe with only tens of thousands of people at the beginning, to a large tribe of nearly 300,000 people in the expansion city today, there are 60,000 cavalry directly under the city. ”

"If we give the other party a few more years, I am afraid that there will be another powerful enemy in the northwest of the imperial court, coupled with the fact that the other party occupies a favorable geographical position, my Central Plains soldiers will definitely have all kinds of discomfort when they first go to the plateau, which will greatly increase the difficulty of our conquest of the northwest in the future."

"According to the information obtained by the secret agents of the Intelligence Agency, Tuyuhun has been seeking to establish an independent kingdom in the West Sea, and we must take the West Sea Plateau before the other side grows stronger. All the Qiang people distributed in the Hehuang area were relocated for sinicization. This was the only way to rapidly increase the population of the imperial court. (To be continued......)