The wind is howling, the snow is flying, and the Mongolian steppe in the cold winter is full of white expanse. It was freezing cold, dripping into ice, and it was impossible to see the situation 100 meters away.

At the end of the fourth year of the new Qin, the Mongolian steppe suffered the biggest snowstorm in five years. The snow is generally more than a foot thick, and in some places it is even closer to two feet!

The garrisons and local governments of Inner and Outer Mongolia reported the news to Beijing as soon as possible!

"Make arrangements for disaster relief. The reserve granaries of each county can be opened by local officials when necessary for disaster relief. Then sue Wei Ming and take this opportunity to completely clean up the bandits. ”

Liu Xian is not worried about the blizzard in Mongolia. Even if many people are really affected, how much can they lose? There are only about 3 million people in Inner and Outer Mongolia. And since the beginning of this year, he has been implementing silage technology across the country, although the implementation in Mongolia is not as effective as the northwest and Ningxia generations, but it can always slow down a certain amount of forage supply and demand. In addition, the government has also vigorously promoted alfalfa cultivation in Mongolia, coupled with the trade in wool and leather this year, which has caused the income of Mongolia's civilian class to skyrocket, which has a very effective effect on mitigating the impact of the snowstorm.

It was also in the autumn of this year that the Qin army was fully redressed, and the development of the domestic wool textile industry gave the Ministry of National Defense and the General Logistics Department the confidence to change military uniforms for the whole army.

Otherwise, to make wool military uniforms, you have to import fabrics from foreign countries, which is too inferior!

The new military uniform completely looks at the 71-style military uniform series of China's original time and space, and after subtracting the types that are not needed in this era, there are dresses, regular clothes, and training uniforms, which are composed of three types.

The army is grass green. The wall of the hat under the collar badge and the national emblem of the military cap is red; The navy is white, and the wall of the cap under the collar badge and the coat of arms is blue.

The momentum is very eye-catching. With the majesty of a soldier and the vigor of morale.

On September 1, the Huaxia Daily, the mouthpiece of the Daqin government, had a circulation more than 10 times higher than that of Ta Kung Pao. On the first page of the newspaper, nicknamed "Di Bao", a photo of the new military uniform was published. The whole army officially opened a major change.

All the wool materials consumed by it are all domestically produced fabrics. The source is naturally the wool of Mongolia, Qinghai and Xinjiang. It has brought great stimulation to the above three livestock areas!

Can wool still make money?

For the first time, the herders in the three pastoral areas felt that the money was so good. In the past, they could only sell livestock and leather, but now they can sell wool, and the surging profits do not make people happy.

Many Han farmers in Inner Mongolia and northwest China who made a living by cultivating land have turned their attention to raising sheep.

These people's obedience to the imperial court is infiltrated into their bones, and they have a kind of closeness to Beijing that the current Mongols do not have, and most of the alfalfa cultivation in Mongolia, Xinjiang and Qinghai was started by them as 'the first warriors to eat crabs'. Moreover, the Han people are a settled farming people, even if they have begun to develop animal husbandry. It is also mainly based on the captivity of sheepfolds, which is completely different from nomadic herdsmen. And this kind of life pattern is very much in line with Liu Xian's next plan for Mongolia and Northwest China. Therefore, using the development of these Han people as a 'publicity' will surely make many herders realize the benefits of settlement.

"Your Majesty, Li Xi has already arrived in Tianjin with the North Korean mission, but he did not get off the ship, but went directly to Shanghai by boat."

In the Qinzheng Palace, Liu Xian was looking at the report of the Ministry of Security. Just two days ago, the ambassador to the DPRK suddenly sent a secret message saying that Li Xi was probably no longer in the palace. Instead, he went to China with the Korean mission that came to Beijing to congratulate him.

Liu immediately asked the Ministry of Security to keep a close watch on the North Korean steamer that was about to arrive in Tianjin. Yes, a big change, the DPRK mission took the initiative to come to China by boat for the first time when the northeast land route was connected. Even last year, the North Korean mission to China still took the northeastern land route.

Then, unsurprisingly, a spy disguised as a port customs officer met Li Xi's personal attendant on the ship. In this way, it seems that it can be concluded whether Li Xi is on the ship or not.

Liu Xian doesn't understand now, what is Li Xi planning to do? The king of a country. Suddenly left the stall in the country and ran to the suzerain. And it's still a secret. He didn't even say hello to the Chinese government. What exactly does he want to do?

"Closely monitored. Ensure the safety of Li Xi. ”

After the security personnel retreated, Liu Xian asked the attendants to send a secret telegram to Seoul. The embassy personnel stationed in the DPRK should make a summary of the current domestic political situation and public sentiment in the DPRK.

Since North Korea has been re-embracing China's thighs. The debate between civility and conservatism in North Korea is still overwhelming. But the arguments have come and gone, and there has never been a definite conclusion. Because even among the insiders of the Enlightened faction, there are great differences and controversies.

Enlightenment, how strong should it be? Which part to start with? How to appease the discontent of the beneficiaries of the old system......

In the powerful Korea, do not think how great the power of the king of Korea is. The Andong Kim family, the Pungyang Cho family, the Liheung Min family, the Namyang Hong family, the Pannam Park family, and the Daseong (Daegu) Seo family, ...... huge families, are the real masters of Korea. Even you can think of the Joseon royal family as a political family.

Any reform will touch the interests of the old system, and it will also bring out the power of the old class, which will of course usher in the struggle and dissatisfaction of the old profiteers. Cutting off people's financial means is like killing your parents!

In a country like North Korea, where royal power is not thriving, political reform is particularly difficult.

Liu Xian had a bad impression of Li Xi. He even thinks that if Li Xi's father, Dayuanjun, becomes the king of Joseon, no matter whether the political atmosphere in North Korea is conservative or conservative, Dayuanjun is an absolute political conservative, but this can be regarded as a political and Qingming. If you don't quarrel and quarrel, the unlucky ones are the people below.

In other words, Dayuanjun is about to succeed to the throne, and Liu Xian can let North Korea play on the side with peace of mind. You don't have to keep an eye on it like you do now.

"I guess I'm going to take a walk and see it myself!!

Hearing is false, seeing is believing. China is taking the road of 'civilization and reform', and Li Xi will have a spectrum in his heart when he sees the current China with his own eyes.

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On the third day of the twelfth month of the fourth year of the new Qin Dynasty, Li Xi set foot on the land of China. He went to Shanghai, China's largest window to the outside world and trading city.

This is the first time Li Xi has been abroad, and he has hardly even been out of Seoul a few times. I really don't have much concept of prosperity and prosperity in the population. Even stuck in old ideas in his head, he compared Seoul to Shanghai. Li Xi didn't think Seoul would lose to Shanghai. He admits that Seoul is inferior to Beijing, and willingly thinks that it is a matter of course. However, 40 years ago, Shanghai was only a small city, and Seoul was the capital of 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains in Korea, and Li Xi thought in his heart that Shanghai was at most similar to Seoul, and not even more prosperous than Seoul.

This is also because he didn't get off the ship at all when he arrived in Tianjin, but he went to the splint to look at Tianjin in the night after dark, which naturally didn't feel anything.

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Edison's electric light was invented and put into practical use. But in China, there are no electric lights even in the imperial palaces, and even 99.99% of the population has never heard of electric lights, let alone anywhere else.

Only in the Academy of Natural Sciences, two power stations input direct current, so that the real yàn room here has the figure of electric lights. And according to Liu Xian's instructions, one of the real yàn groups is conducting further research on electric lamps - tungsten incandescent lamps.

As long as it succeeds, Liu Xian will implement electric lighting in China on a large scale.

This time in China, Li Xi chose to enter from Shanghai, which was indeed the same as Liu Xian imagined, because Shanghai was famous. The city is now advertised in the newspapers as the most prosperous city in the Far East. Li Xi knew in North Korea that China had this new city, and the reason why this new city arose was because of foreign affairs and change. As a result, after arriving in the city, Li Xi was shocked. After two years of large-scale expansion, the port of Shanghai has become much larger than before. In the past, the port of Shanghai Port was much larger than that of Busan Port.

For a big city like Shanghai, expanding the port is nothing. After passing through the customs and entering the city of Shanghai, Li Xi was shocked again. It's not a city like Seoul at all!

There are no alleys and alleys in the Oriental city. Two years of urban renovation have changed the appearance of Shanghai. In front of Li Xi is a huge 'modern' city.

Ordinary roads are basically four lanes, while wide roads are six or even ten lanes. There is a nice green belt on both sides of the road, and although there are no electric lights, there are gas street lights. The roads are filled with horse-drawn carriages, rickshaws, tricycles, bicycles and pedestrians.

Looking at those wide and straight roads, Li Xi felt that his whole person was going to be bad.

Can a city really become what it looks like?

Li Xi felt that the Chinese had simply built the road into a square.

The space framed by winding or straight lanes is a series of buildings with more than three floors. None of these buildings are distinctive, but there are endless buildings nestled in plants. Compared with the low-rise wooden houses of Seoul, these buildings in Shanghai fully embody the style of China's 'Celestial Empire'.

Although such an establishment is not aesthetically pleasing!

"Is this the gap between the Celestial Empire and the Lower Kingdom?" Li Xi finally sorted out his mood and said silently in his heart. Facts always speak louder than a thousand words, and no matter how long Li Xi hesitated between the different political propositions led by Dayuanjun and Concubine Min, he must also admit that Shanghai is 'extraordinary'!

And this 'extraordinary' city, the city that makes his heart palpitate, is undoubtedly the power of 'civilization'!

"I really should have asked my father to come to Shanghai to have a look. After seeing Shanghai, he would definitely dispel that stubborn thought. Li Xi was full of emotion.

This force that changed the original appearance of 'Shanghai' conquered him at the first time. He couldn't help but reverie: if Seoul had a day like the current Shanghai, he would be satisfied...... (To be continued......)