With the sound of firecrackers in addition to the old year, the new year is also coming.

On the first day of the first lunar month, the New Year's Day, hundreds of foreign vassal states sent to congratulate them, and the majesty of the heaven-court kingdom was even more impressive. Japan and Donghu also sent envoys, and the two countries finally felt the overwhelming pressure of Mount Tai of the Han Dynasty at this time, and sent envoys to the court one after another to ask for mercy from the Han Dynasty.

Although the credentials submitted by the two countries were humble, Liu Jun was not moved at all.

Up to now, nothing can change the footsteps of the Great Han Wangshi.

The New Year is very lively and tired, all kinds of pilgrimage etiquette, see all kinds of subordinate envoys.

It wasn't until the fifth day of the new year that he had some free time, and he had time to hold a royal family banquet and invite all the royal families into the palace.

At the end of last year, Liu Jun added several more children. The queen and several concubines have added new dragon sons and dragon girls to the emperor, and the import of Ding Ding is a great joy for ordinary people, not to mention for the heavenly family.

The family banquet was placed in the Emperor's Imperial Palace, and for the family banquet, Liu Jun was only dressed in a dragon robe, which was exempted from many rules and etiquette.

Zhang Shan, Fu Shan and several other sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law also entered the palace with their wives and children, and Liu Jun's five sisters also added people last year.

This year, the children of the Liu family gathered, and the children and grandchildren were full, and the emperor Liu Xiu was very happy.

What makes him even happier is that last year, a group of children added so many dings, but none of them died young, which is extremely rare and valuable.

Liu Jun's eldest sons have all begun to babble, and a group of children are very strong.

It seems that Liu Jun was born with a child, he hugs each child, no matter who he hugs, he holds it very steadily, and the child does not cry or make trouble.

Five sons and three daughters, all beautiful and cute, even under Liu Jun's teasing, they would giggle and smile at him.

Liu Junyi was happy. Immediately issued an order to canonize the three sons and three daughters who had not yet been knighted.

The three children were all named marquis, and the three daughters were all named princesses. This caused the child's birth mothers to be happy, and the atmosphere of the day was more harmonious.

In the corner of the warm hall, Liu Jun held the newly awarded Ji'an Hou Liu Hepei, while Zhang Shan held his eldest son Zhang Shijun, Fu Shan held his son Fu Ziming, Liu Yongsheng held his son Liu Hetang, and the four old men each held their sons and sat there while coaxing the children and talking.

"Zhang Guozhu is now in Mobei, and Zhang Guodong will also go to Kanto after the New Year, Huchen. Where do you want to go? ”

Zhang Shan is not only Liu Jun's old brother, but also a confidant, or his sister-in-law, he has been leading troops to fight last year, from Henan to Xikang, he was originally the governor of Sichuan Lake. In this new round of personnel reshuffling between the DPRK and China, the Central Plains Military Region has not changed, and it still has jurisdiction over Henan and Shandong provinces, but Luoyang has been separated from them. Administratively, it is one of the five capitals directly under the imperial court, and militarily, Luoyang belongs to the base camp of the General Reserve Army of the Right Theater.

"I want to go to Lingnan." Zhang Shan patted his son in his arms and said.

Zhang Shan has been in the northwest before. But it is still very sensitive to the strategic direction of the imperial court. The imperial court has four battles to fight next year, the eastern expedition to Japan, the southern expedition to Donghu, the western expedition to Oirat, and the northern expedition to the Jurchens. Of the four wars, the Northern Expedition was certainly the smallest. The Jurchens moved too far north, and even if they were to go north, the scale would not be much larger. It can only be a small-scale cavalry raid.

The emperor sent Zhang Guodong and Zhang Guozhu two generals, the Five Tiger Generals, to supervise the Kwantung and Mobei Military Regions, obviously to put them in charge of dealing with the Jurchens.

And the battle between the northwest and Oirat, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Chen Qiyu and Zhu Dadian, as well as Cai Yuan and Chang Sheng, have also been arranged to command the troops.

Zhang Shan was not given the post of northwest, and it was clear that the emperor had other arrangements.

In the south, there is Zheng Zhilong, and in Japan, there is Liu Yunsheng.

Zhang Shan wants to be in charge alone, and he doesn't want to be their deputy. He is interested in the position of the commander of the Lingnan Military Region, and the imperial court has not planned to make a move against Vietnam now, but it will be three or five years at the latest, and within one or two years at the earliest, the imperial court will definitely send troops to Vietnam.

If he can now be transferred to the governor of Lingnan and command the three towns of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan, then when it comes to conquering Vietnam, he will naturally be the best commander.

Liu Jun smiled.

"I knew you were going to be aiming for this position."

Zhang Shan has such an idea, Liu Jun is not uncommon at all, and even he was originally ready to give Zhang Shan this position.

Dahan's strategy is very clear, that is, to continue to expand to the outside world. Nowadays, the north has basically reached the limit of expansion, and the northern part of Mobei reaches Lake Baikal in the North Sea, and the northeast reaches the banks of the Heilongjiang River.

Further north, that is the real wild land, the imperial court has just recovered the northern part of the Kanto Desert, and there are no plans for the areas north of Beihai and Heilongjiang for the time being.

Liu Jun's plan is to solve the Jurchen problem and take the Heilongjiang River basin within ten years. During this period, it is necessary to strengthen the influence on the Far North.

At present, there are some Buryat tribes composed of a combination of Bragats, Ehirits, Gangodors and Horins, who are also a branch of the Mongols, and some people have even said that these people may be the Buyeyu people and Ding Ling people in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

This tribe also dissolved into Mongolia during the Yuan Empire, and is now a branch of Mongolia. Since the Wanli period, they have been at war with the Russians who have expanded to the east, and they have been fighting for nearly a hundred years, but in general they are still at a disadvantage, and they are constantly oppressed to the south, close to Lake Baikal.

Farther west and north, between the Yenisei and Lena rivers, where they used to graze, they were now largely occupied by Russia.

From the Wanli period, when the Russians began to invade the Balabin steppe, to the following decades, from the Tara region to the Irtysh River and the Yenisei River basin, the Tsarist Russians encroached on whales again and again, built castles in various key places, and constantly sent missions to the Mongol tribes to lobby in an attempt to persuade them to submit to Russia.

In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the Russians established Yeniseissk, and in the first year of Chongzhen, they established Krasnoyarsk, and then two directions of invasion, to the south and to the east.

The southward Mobei steppe is inhabited by the Erut Department and the Khalkha Mongols, each of which has a large population, and has strong resistance to the various intentions of Tsarist Russia, and the leaders of the two tribes of Tushetu Khan and Chechen Khan, to which the Khalkha Mongols belong, have also sent people to Moscow many times to negotiate, and Tsarist Russia's southward intentions have been blocked, so they will aim to the east.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Russians established the Yakutsk Governorate, and the Cossacks conquered a large area around the Lena River. Irkutsk was built on the west side of Lake Baikal, pastures were seized on all sides of the lake, fortresses were established, and fierce clashes broke out with the Buryat Mongol tribes stationed east of Lake Baikal.

Since the fourth year of Chongzhen, the war has been inextricably linked, and after more than ten years of war, the Buryats have gradually weakened, but they are still fighting against Russia.

Last year, after the Han conquered eastern Mongolia, the Buryats took the initiative to send people to Beijing to meet the Han Emperor. They asked the Han to send troops to help fight the Russians, and Liu Jun readily agreed. sent Zhang Guozhu to Beihai.

The imperial court established Beihai Province in the area of Lake Belga, which was one of the four provinces of the Mobei Military Region.

The Buryat tribe also became a feudal vassal of the Great Han Mobei, but now the Han and Russia have not yet started a war.

The Russians were very cautious and careful to maintain restraint, and the Han did not have too strong control over the distant land of the North Sea. Han and Russia are like two fierce tigers, meeting in a mountain forest.

They looked at each other.

Liu Jun knew that there would be a war for a long time, but Liu Jun did not fight an unprepared battle. Hold Beihai first, then take the Heilongjiang River Valley, and wait until the Jurchens are destroyed. Only then did the Han have the spare strength to transfer troops to the north and open up further north.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Jun sent Zhang Guodong and Zhang Guozhu, two henchmen.

Compared with the north, which is too far away, Liu Jun's expansion focus is still in the south. Although there are many mineral resources in the north. But it is sparsely populated and far less valuable than Indochina.

To feed more people, you need more food, you need more arable land. The climate of Indochina is very suitable for farming, and it can be harvested three times a year. Especially compared with the cold and barren land of the distant desert north, the Indochina Peninsula has both a suitable climate and fertile land. In particular, these places are more suitable for the development of agricultural civilization.

The Han Dynasty does not need to colonize the whole world like the Netherlands and Spain.

Due to the special geographical conditions, the Han Dynasty is a dominant country in East Asia. As long as these places at the doorstep are conquered and annexed, with the Confucian culture of the Han Dynasty, they can be well assimilated and make them truly part of the Han Dynasty.

Japan, Korea, Donghu, Vietnam, Ayutthaya, Champong, Cambodia, Malacca, etc., this is the direction of the Han Dynasty's continuous expansion in the future.

Liu Yunsheng will go to preside over the Japanese war, while Zheng Zhilong will go to Donghu.

The war against Vietnam has not yet begun, but it is also necessary to start preparing for it in advance. If they want to attack Vietnam, they will naturally use Guangxi as an advance base.

The commander of the Lingnan Military Region, who is in charge of the military affairs of Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan provinces, is naturally the best candidate for this preparation.

Zhang Shan is a meritorious hero, and he will supervise Lingnan, Liu Jun is relieved.

In today's Han system, the military region is an important division, and each military region has several provinces under its jurisdiction. The highest commander of the military region is the governor-general, who is also the governor of one of the most important provinces in the military region. The Governor is the highest commander of the military region, and basically serves as a civil servant.

Liu Jun has not changed this boundary, nor has he broken it.

It even insists on protecting this line.

The army of the Han Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, like a sharp sword, but such a sword also needs to be controlled better. Liu Jun's method of control is to distinguish between civil and military, and not to cross the line with each other.

The supreme governor of the military region is served by Wenchen, but the power of the governor of the Han Dynasty is not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, the governor is responsible for the military and civil affairs of several provinces of the governor's military region, but for the army, they are more supervised.

There is also a theater of operations above the military region, but the commanders and chiefs of staff of the theater are all working in Beijing. Under the governor of the military region, there is a senior general who is responsible for supervising the military affairs of several provinces in the military region, and the commander is also the chief military officer of the most important province in the military region.

The relationship between the governor and the admiral is somewhat similar to that between the political commissar and the commander in later generations. The Governor is the No. 1 chief, and the Admiral is the No. 2 Chief, and the Admiral is under the leadership of the Governor, but the Admiral has the final say in specific military affairs, and the Governor has no right to interfere too much.

The relationship between the Governor and the Admiral is one of mutual containment and supervision, and mutual cooperation. The governor was in charge of the admiral, and over the governor, and over the envoys and envoys of the provinces. However, the admiral can only manage the army, and cannot interfere in local civil affairs, and even equipment, food, and salaries are under the control of the governor.

For a long time, except for Zheng Zhilong and Liu Yunsheng, who were promoted to governors, Liu Jun's other generals, even absolute henchmen like Zhang Shan, have never served as governors, and their highest position is to serve as commanders. This is also Liu Jun's intentional arrangement, Zhang Shan and other generals, Liu Jun does not intend to let them cross the line, they will be pure soldiers.

For example, Zhang Shan and other generals in military circles cannot hold civilian posts unless they take off their uniforms and become civilians, and can only be promoted to posts in military circles.

After the generals were promoted to the commander-in-chief and commander, they were considered to be at the top at the local level. Then they had to go to Beijing and serve in the Ministry of War or the Privy Council, serving as various commanders and chiefs of staff.

The three positions of the military department secretary and the left and right privy envoys are all important ministers who can add the rank of prime minister to participate in politics, and they are also the highest military positions that generals can hold.

In the same way, a civilian official can serve as a governor, but it is absolutely impossible to serve as a commander-in-chief, a commander-in-chief, nor can he serve as a squire in the military department, a secretary of the military department, a privy envoy to the left and right, and a chief of general staff.

The army of the Han Dynasty was a professional standing army, so laymen could not be allowed to command insiders and control the military with civilians, and it was only civilian leadership to supervise the army, not direct command.

Cai Yuan has already served as the governor of the southwest, and the original post of the governor of Chuanhu has also been abolished, so Zhang Shan, the former governor of Chuanhu, was transferred to the governor of Lingnan, which was an arrangement made by Liu Jun early.

"Fang Kongzhi, the former governor of Liangguang, will serve as the governor of Lingnan, and he has a good reputation in Lingnan. The local economy of Liangguang and Hainan has developed rapidly, relying on maritime trade, and now the economy of Lingnan is improving rapidly, especially in Guangzhou and other coastal cities, which are developing rapidly. When you get there, take care of the army and prepare for the imperial court's future conquest of Vietnam, and the rest of the task is to escort the economic development of Lingnan, but also remember not to meddle in local government affairs, understand? ”

Zhang Shan nodded, he knew that the emperor hated the military to interfere in local government affairs the most. This is a red line that no one can cross. Although he is the emperor's sworn brother and married the emperor's sister, he is less and less careless.

"This time, Mo Jingyu, the emperor of the Annan Mo Dynasty, sent a delegation to Beijing to congratulate him. Mo asked for a private meeting, and asked me to send troops to help the Mo Dynasty recover Vietnam. Liu Jun said while teasing his son.

The founding emperor of the Mo Dynasty was once a minister of the Lê Dynasty, but later usurped the throne of the Lê Dynasty, and at one point seized almost all of Vietnam. It was only later that some ministers of the Li Dynasty rebelled, and soon the Li Dynasty was restored.

However, the Mo clan did not perish, they retreated to the north, although Wang Xiaoer's New Year was not as good as a year, and the territory was getting smaller and smaller, but they were also constantly fighting with the Hou Li Dynasty, and they always held on to their breath. (To be continued.) )

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