In November, Zhao announced that he would spend the Spring Festival in Luoyang this year and would not return to Tokyo, in order to let the people know that their emperor would not leave Xijing because of the assassination; The second is to prepare public opinion for the relocation of the capital, so that the government and the opposition can have a process of adaptation, so as to reduce resistance from all sides; The three raised the status of Xijing and strengthened the power of their imperial court by spending the New Year in Luoyang.

With the promulgation of the Emperor's decree, the panic caused by the assassination of the Emperor also dissipated, and everything returned to normal, and the people looked forward to the scene of rejoicing with the Emperor. However, the powerful departments of Xijing and even the Great Song Dynasty did not dare to take it lightly and secretly strengthened their control. After a series of investigations by the Intelligence Agency and the analysis of relevant departments, everyone thought that the Murayi State was temporarily incapable of infiltrating the high-level of the Great Song Dynasty, but the infiltration of the grassroots could not be ruled out. Therefore, it is necessary to further strengthen the protection of the emperor and transfer all suspicious elements from the emperor's side.

At this time, it was the time of the annual recruitment of new recruits and the retirement of veterans, so they took the opportunity to first reorganize and adjust the Guards. In order to pass the examination, military generals will be ordered to retire from active service, and those who cannot be ruled out for the time being will be transferred to other units or sent to military academies for study in the name of training and training. In order to ensure combat effectiveness, the Guards changed the past practice of training recruits on their own, and the vacancies were selected from all departments of the armed forces.

The selection and selection of the Military Department, the Guards and the Imperial City Division are jointly responsible, loyal to Your Majesty, and have the courage to sacrifice your life for Your Majesty is the first, that is to say, you must be politically qualified and have a clean family background; Superb martial arts skills and excellent military quality are necessary conditions, and it is best to be a sergeant who has served for more than three years and has actual combat experience; Then there is the requirement of faith. Indigenous religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, and shamanism are not prohibited, but those who follow Islam are subject to strict scrutiny. Prevent exploitation by extremist cults.

The internal guard brigade, which is the last line of defense on the emperor's side, has also been adjusted and strengthened, and the commander is still Wangfu after recovering from injury. Increased the number of members of the Emperor's 'Shadow' detachment of the internal guard. They will protect the emperor around the clock, to put it mildly, they must not leave the emperor like a shadow, even when they are in the court and meeting with ministers, they must hide in the shadows, ready to rush out to protect the emperor.

At the same time, a task force consisting of the intelligence direct operations team and the elite of the Military Intelligence Division, the Special Operations Brigade and the Forbidden Army Mountain Force was secretly being created. Their selection conditions are more stringent, requiring team members to have actual combat experience in the mountains, accurate marksmanship, good at camouflage and lurking, good at reconnaissance and infiltration, climbing and other mountain tactics, proficient in the use of various weapons and have super field survival ability. The most demanding thing is that the team members are required to be biased towards the Turks or Persians in appearance, preferably able to master Persian and read and write Arabic, and be familiar with the customs and religious habits of the Alamut region.

Due to the peculiarities of the nature of this mission. It was decided that the size of this contingent should not be too large, otherwise it would not only be easy to expose the target, but also cause greater pressure on logistics and supplies, so the personnel were limited to 120 people and organized into four teams. Each squad can work alone or in tandem against larger targets, and before they undergo rigorous training in mountain warfare, they also learn the language and script of the target area. so that you can better hide yourself and take action.

On the other hand, the intelligence network of the Great Song Dynasty was fully spread, collecting information about the Murayi State and infiltrating its territory through various means. Find out where the target lives, habits, appearance, details of life, family members, guards, and more, and preferably what he eats several times a day. A few trips to the toilet also figured it out. As another component of the Great Song Dynasty's intelligence system, the Fourth Hall also began to send personnel into the country of Murayi in the name of merchants. Their mission is to establish a base of operations for the contingent, to provide material support and to deliver information and to provide an evacuation route for the contingent upon completion of its mission.

Zhao Ta is the king of a country. Naturally, he has no chance to relive the heroic dream of slashing the enemy chieftain, and his heart is full of loss and helplessness, and now he has gained status and power, but he has also lost his 'freedom'. All he could do was to provide guidance from what he had known in his previous life in the context of the current situation, and try his best to pass on what he had learned to them. In short, he knew very well that it would be difficult for such a blind operation to go deep behind enemy lines to succeed, and that the more fully prepared he was, the greater the chance of success......

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After entering the Layue Emperor to worship his ancestors and return to Xijing, the envoys and local ministers of various countries went to Luoyang to congratulate. Luoyang City, which has been silent for hundreds of years, ushered in the long-lost glory, the whole city is lit up to welcome the New Year, the majestic city, the grand palace is presented in front of people's eyes, so that visitors from all walks of life feel the re-emergence of the Great Song Dynasty and become the center of the world again.

After the New Year, Zhao Ta issued an edict ordering the Ministry of Industry to rest the road leading to the north and south of the desert in the Central Plains, and build post stations along the way. He ordered the household department and the official department to send officials to the northwest, Gaochang and other newly acquired places, set up counties, and fully restored the rule of the Great Song Dynasty. At the same time, large-scale immigration was launched, and 100,000 officers and soldiers of the retired state army and forbidden army and 300,000 officers and soldiers from southeastern and Sichuan places were requisitioned and sent to the northwest to reclaim and garrison the frontier to consolidate the border defense. He ordered the superintendent of agriculture to promote new crops to the northwest and began to use the cotton farmers captured from Gaochang to teach cotton planting.

In March, the Holy Driver returned to Beijing to preside over the imperial examination, and the Ministry of Rites and Rites added engineering and agricultural departments to the next imperial examination, and selected talents in construction, water conservancy and agriculture. In addition, special funds were allocated to order local state capitals to set up Mongolian schools in townships, implement free education for school-age children, and set up special funds to expand county schools and recruit students. At the same time, Confucian scholars of various schools are encouraged to open academies, open museums to teach apprentices, disseminate knowledge, and select and cultivate talents.

In April, the expeditionary army sailors of the Seljuk Empire returned to Quanzhou, and reported to the capital, Longxin Dayue, issued a decree to reward meritorious service, and Jiacheng Xuan was named Shangzhu State, and Jin was named Fubo Gong; Ma Wei, Li Quan, and Wang Gang were crowned protectors, promoted to lieutenant generals, and made marquises; The meritorious personnel of all departments were also rewarded and ordered to enter Beijing to offer prisoners. In May, Cheng Xishou led his troops into Beijing to offer spoils of war, and the people of the capital of the Great Song Dynasty once again gained knowledge.

Zhao Ta looked at the mountains of gold coins, of course, he was happy, he knew that looting was the fastest way to get rich, otherwise there would be no continuous war that lasted the entire history of mankind, but the abundance of this harvest was still beyond his expectations, which was equivalent to the financial and tax income of the Great Song Dynasty for several years, with the support of this large amount of wealth, he could do more things, and he could also speed up the pace of preparation.

Zhao Ta attaches more importance to the Arab scholars, craftsmen and books that were 'invited' to the Great Song Dynasty, which will speed up the absorption of Western culture by the Great Song Dynasty, make full use of the mature science and technology of the West, and lay a solid foundation for the cultural and technological level of the Great Song Dynasty to reach new heights. He immediately ordered the establishment of the Xihua Pavilion in Xijing to store the stolen books, organized scholars who were proficient in Arabic and scholars who were 'invited' to translate and edit, and selected a group of young talents to study in the cabinet.

Naturally, Gen Yuan, a mysterious place that hides countless secrets of the Great Song Dynasty, will not give up this opportunity to learn, and they will recruit all the top scholars and craftsmen they have captured into it, in order to transform what they have learned into practical technology as quickly as possible, so as to improve their scientific research level, break through the bottleneck that is difficult to overcome, and then absorb and use it for themselves and put it into practice. Make the scientific and technological level of Da Song ahead of the world.

Although many of those handsome and tall Arabian war horses died on the way, more than 300 of them survived the long journey to the land of the Great Song Dynasty, and they soon became the emperor's new favorite. Zhao Ta knew that these war horses would be conducive to improving the horse breed of the Great Song Dynasty, but the population was still too small and needed to be bred to form a scale, so he only left a few horses for himself to ride, and the rest were sent to the horse farm for careful cultivation to contribute to the growth of the Great Song Dynasty cavalry.

As for the Persian beauties and singers presented by the expeditionary force, Zhao Ta knew that he would not be blessed, and he rewarded them all to the meritorious soldiers, not even his father, he was worried that he would create a few more mixed-race brothers for himself and mess up the royal bloodline. Those exquisite gold and silver artifacts were all filial to their father, and they only kept those sharp swords as a reward, and another gain was to find out the reason for their assassination from the achievements of the expeditionary force.

The Song expedition defeated several Seljuk armies, breached the city of Baghdad, captured a large amount of goods and people, and forced the caliph to pay huge sums of money and sign a series of agreements to sell his sovereignty before he was redeemed from becoming a captive of the Orientals. This incident can be said to have shocked the entire Islamic world, and the Crusaders failed to break through Baghdad and capture the caliph in several crusades, but they were done by the Orientals who were thousands of miles away from the ocean, and also let them know the name of this eastern country - the Great Song Empire.

Zhao Ta knew that the expeditionary force had shocked the Arab world, opened up the sea trade routes and gained great benefits, but he had also become a public enemy of the entire Muslim world, and he was afraid that it would be worse than several crusades against them. They were just afraid of the strength of the Great Song Dynasty and dared not speak out, let alone wave the army to conquer, and they were afraid that they didn't know how many bad things they had said about themselves in front of Allah.

As an outlier in the Islamic country, although they are enemies of the Seljuk Empire, they believe in the same god after all, which also makes them think that their god has been insulted, and they are angry that the Great Song Dynasty sent assassins to kill themselves, the 'heretic leader'! In this way, they will not only be able to show their evil spirits, but also become heroes in the Islamic community by doing so, which will help them promote their doctrines, recruit more followers, and become the new religious leaders of the Islamic community. Zhao Ta also became a victim on the altar of the sheikh of the Murayi Kingdom, a stepping stone on the road to success...... (To be continued......)