The Tengu Plains is a relatively flat land in the mountains of Shikoku. The snow on the seashore outside the mountain has melted, and the snow here is still thick. People here are hiding in their houses, around the fire, enduring the winter. As many years passed, the adults discussed what they were going to do in a month or two. Winter has come, and spring will be far away?

"The mountain ghost is coming! The mountain ghost is coming! Someone outside the village shouted hysterically.

Adult men from ordinary families hurriedly picked up bamboo guns, and the ground picked up weapons and rushed out the door. Sure enough, I saw something black moving on the road leading here. Those things were thatch, pointed at the top and wide at the bottom. It is the standard winter 'clothing' of the naked mountain dwellers.

The mountain people were the natives who had been driven up the mountain before, and after losing their original land, the mountain people were called mountain ghosts by those who drove them away. As soon as the people at the foot of the mountain see the mountain ghosts, they will use weapons to drive them away. Because the mountain ghosts will go down the mountain to grab food. The people of the Tengu Plains thought it was a mountain ghost raid, but then they realized that something was not quite right.

"Who's behind them?" The ground asked Ashigaru who was holding a bamboo gun next to him.

"This ...... I don't know! Ashigaru replied puzzled. If you have knowledge, you don't know what is going on with the armoured army that appears behind the mountain ghosts. How would a ashigaru know.

Naturally following the mountain ghosts is the Iyo Naval Army, which knows the way on the mountain, and the Iyo Imperial Army needs people to lead the way, and even more so, they need to occupy the entire island of Shikoku before the end of winter. Now they suddenly appeared, catching the guys on the Tengu Plains off guard. The trolls easily broke through the defenses of the locals and occupied the area.

By February, with the exception of Kagawa and Tokushima, which are next to Honshu Island in the northern part of Shikoku Island, all other populated areas fell into the hands of the Iyo Naval Army. In Qin Mingxuan's meeting, the Iyu Navy roughly counted the population of the control area. With the addition of 50,000 Iyo sailors, there were 150,000 people in this area.

Qin Mingxuan was speechless after learning the news, such a large island, the area is larger than Hangzhou City, only 150,000 people. Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Songjiang all have populations of one million. Can such a small population really fight against the Kamakura shogunate? Qin Mingxuan was very uneasy in his heart. Uneasy, he chose to send a message to Hangzhou.

The first to receive the news was naturally the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites found that they had no way to solve Qin Mingxuan's problem at all, so they reported the problem and handed it over to the more powerful Zhao Guanjia to deal with.

Zhao Jiaren didn't expect that such a ghost place in Shikoku would have a population of only 150,000, that is, with the addition of two flat lands close to Honshu, Shikoku Island has a population of about 200,000. At this time, the total population of the Wakoku Kingdom was about 20 million, and the island of Shikoku accounted for only 1% of the Wakoku population.

Because it was related to the military struggle, the Ministry of War also sent people to participate. I read the information. The major general from the military headquarters took notes, but remained silent. Xiong Sheng couldn't help but ask, "What does the military department think?" ”

"It's all up to the government." The Major General replied simply.

Xiong Shang was amused, and he laughed, but found that he couldn't find the problem. In the end, he could only ask Zhao Jiaren, "Official, how to deal with this matter." ”

"We can send some people to help the Iyo Navy with government affairs." Zhao Jiaren gave the answer.

"Not sending troops?"

"What's the use of sending troops. Is it difficult to start an all-out war with the Japanese state? ”

"What if the Iyo Naval Army is defeated?"

"I'll tell you a story. There used to be people who had hunting dogs to chase rabbits. In the end, the rabbit escaped. The owner scolded the hound, he ate well all day long, lived well, and couldn't even run away from the rabbit that ate wild grass and lived in the soil hole. The hound replied aggrievedly. I came out to run for food, and the rabbit ran for a life. It's not unusual to lose to a rabbit. ”

Hehe. Xiong Sheng laughed dryly. Even without mentioning the technical aspects of how humans and hounds talk to the hounds in this joke, the story itself lacks a laugh. On top of that, Kumasaka didn't think at all that the Iyo Naval Army would be able to overcome the huge disparity in strength with their strength.

"Official, won't the Kamakura shogunate pour the power of the whole country to exterminate the Iyo Naval Army?" Major General Zhu finally took the initiative to speak.

"You can ask Xiong Shangshu to talk about the system of the Kamakura shogunate."

"I don't have any preparations today, so I can make an appointment to let the section chief in charge of the Japanese country tell me about this matter."

"In that case, you should make up the lessons first. After understanding the system of the Kamakura shogunate of Wakoku, discuss the result. ”

The major general immediately replied: "The official family has made a holy judgment before, and we will obey the official orders." If the official family orders the troops, the military department will not back down. ”

Xiong Sheng naturally didn't want to have more trouble, and he couldn't think of how the Great Song Dynasty should face the Japanese officials. When the Ministry of War said so, of course, the Ministry of Rites could also say that it completely obeyed the orders of the Zhao Guanjia. "The Ministry of Rites listens to the official's family."

After Xiong Sheng left, Zhao Jiaren continued to talk to Major General Zhu about the Northern Expedition they had discussed before.

"The official family wants Li Yun to come back as chief of the general staff. Then who will be in charge of the Northern Expedition? Major General Zhu asked his in-laws, Zhao Jiaren.

"If you continue to the north, I don't know what the mood of the troops is." Zhao Jiaren asked.

Major General Zhu was speechless for a while. He never thought in his life that he would one day become a relative of the emperor, and if there was no such relationship, he would probably be able to speak according to the idea of the military department. Many people were not convinced by Li Yun and did not want Li Yun to be the chief of the general staff. Now that he is the in-laws of Zhao Guan's family, the commander of the Song Army, Major General Zhu Huchen only feels uncomfortable, and the reason why he was brought to a meeting is that many people in the military department have ideas in their hearts.

With a heart, Major General Zhu said: "Many people in the military department don't like Li Yun. He is Li Hongjun's son, a nephew in the eyes of many people. What do these uncles and uncles think when they become his subordinates? ”

"Huh." Zhao Jiaren felt that Major General Zhu had at least told the truth, the current system is that the official family has the power to concurrently serve as the prime minister, and foreign affairs and national defense are only responsible to the official family, and the post of secretary of the military department no longer exists. The head of the academic society and the chief of staff of the military department are in charge of military affairs and military orders. At a time when military administration was still considered to be a supervisor of the army, the chief of staff in charge of military orders was considered to be the number one in the army. Li Yun, a guy in his thirties, sat in this position, how could a senior in his forties and fifties be convinced.

"I see." Zhao Jiaren replied.

After sending off Major General Zhu, a secretary came in, "Official, there are still two hours left in the ball." ”

"Hmm. I know. ”

More than a thousand years before the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, the Chinese aristocracy was not as conservative as the barbarians. Huaxia talks about etiquette, and etiquette is not the abstinence of false Taoism, but uses a certain system to regulate desire, so that desire can be expressed normally. At that time, every festival, the adults of the aristocratic family would take the babies out to play. Adults play with adults, and little ones play with their own. If the little ones feel that the other party makes them happy, they will return the favor and agree to go out to play together on the next holiday.

Now Zhao Guanjia continues the Chinese tradition with balls, and he holds balls twice a year. Once in the spring and once in the fall, the event was held at the Imperial Palace, which was only used as a ceremonial venue.

The current Imperial Palace has been completely renovated and has lost its predominantly wooden structure. Even if it is a column, it is a product of iron-reinforced concrete, and the outside is decorated with stone, which looks like a stone pillar.

Five minutes before the ball began, Zhao Jiaren walked along the carpet with Empress Qin into the palace. The people who can come here are not ordinary people, as can be seen from the jeweled ornaments on the women. Zhao Jiaren glanced at it and saw many pearl products, especially pink pearl products. He couldn't help but whisper to the queen next to him: "It seems that the pearls are selling well." ”

"Proud of it?" Empress Qin also responded in a low voice.

"I just feel like my hard work has not been in vain." Zhao Jiaren is proud of his achievements.

Soon, Zhao Jiaren took the stage to speak. "The plan of the year lies in the spring, the new year, the new spring, I wish you all a smooth work and good health. Have fun at the prom. ”

Zhao Jiaren never likes to speak at length, and after speaking briefly, Zhao Jiaren is ready to come down. Then suddenly someone in the crowd shouted: "I wish the official family a long life!" ”

When everyone heard this, they also shouted: "I wish the official family a long life!" ”

Zhao Jiaren didn't expect that someone below would suddenly sing the praises of virtue like this, and he was a little surprised for a while. Smiling and waving to everyone, Zhao Jiaren walked off the stage in a blessing of 'long life without borders'.

The opening dance naturally had to be attended by Zhao Jiaren and Empress Qin, and after a simple dance music, Zhao Jiaren was about to sit down for a while and leave. Then I saw the guard stop a guy who was trying to get closer, and soon the guard came over and said, "Guanjia, that person is the prince of Samhan." ”

"Let him come." Zhao Jiaren felt that chatting with this young man could pass the time well.

"Meet the officials." Wang Zi, the prince of Sanhan, arrived in front of Zhao Jiaren and immediately knelt down and saluted.

"I heard that you are studying agricultural management at the College of Agriculture, how are you doing?"

"Officials, ministers are consciously dull. He has no talent in agriculture, and now he just wants to ask the government to send officials who manage Samhan to take up his post. ”

"Dispatch officials?" Zhao Jiaren was a little surprised.

"Sanhan Province is under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, and the imperial court should have sent officials to manage it."

“…… Do you know what you're talking about? Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but want to be sure.

"I would like to be the head of the Samhan Department of Agriculture." Wang Zi replied very decisively.

"Humph! Hum! Zhao Jiaren couldn't help laughing. He felt that if he was not wrong, this prince Wang Zi wanted to use the power of the Great Song Dynasty to establish his own power. Zhao Jiaren did not hate this, and Park Chung-hee, the dictator of Nanbang, also used the power of the United States to grasp the power of Nanbang and did a good job in Nanbang's economy. As long as the vassal states were not stupid enough to meet the Great Song Dynasty, the stronger the production capacity of the vassal in a certain aspect, the greater the benefit to the Great Song Dynasty.

"I see." Zhao Jiaren replied.

After such a chat, the time reached the expected half an hour. Similar to before, Zhao Jiaren got up and left the scene with the queen. Behind them, music was playing in the palace.