Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who had already changed the court meeting to once every fifteenth day, would also take time out every day to review some important pieces of music on days when there was no court meeting. From this alone, it can be seen that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was at least a diligent emperor.

"Jiang Chong, what are you interested in Chang'an City these days?" Emperor Wu of Han looked at the chapter and lowered his head and asked Jiang Chong not far away.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's nothing, it's just that the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory and the officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion have been relatively ordinary recently. It's not fun to see the end of the year. Jiang Chong's voice is very good, with a unique richness of a man, but also a little ethereal.

"You go to death row and choose fifty people, and these people will be your eyes and ears in the future, and they will find out every move in Chang'an for me." Emperor Wu of Han still lowered his head and said a very casual word, but Jiang Chong hurriedly fell to the ground.

"The minister will live up to His Majesty's love!" Jiang Chong knew that his opportunity had finally come, although he was only a subordinate of fifty people, this was the first time that Emperor Wu of Han had officially given himself a task. Just by monitoring Chang'an for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Jiang Chong knew that as long as he did it well, his status would be at least above Jiuqing in the future!

Emperor Wu of Han lowered his head and nodded slightly, and then picked up a letter signed Jing Zhaoyin. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was slightly stunned, this was the first piece submitted in the name of Jing Zhaoyin after Huo Guangnan's expedition.

The content of the chapter is very simple, it was Huo Guang who instructed Du Yannian to submit the matter of opening the Lantern Festival Night Market and transferring the soldiers of Beijing to Chang'an. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty looked at the content on it, and after a little thought, he wrote a quasi-word at the end of the chapter.

When the soldiers of the Jingfu Commander entered Chang'an City in the name of maintaining law and order during the Lantern Festival, Huo Guang, who was far away on the other side of the Han Dynasty, had already set foot on the southernmost part of the Han Dynasty, the west of Rinan County. And this time, in addition to the thousands of personal guard battalions that inspected the nine southeastern counties with Huo Guang, there were also more than a dozen painters recruited from various counties.

"Your Majesty, what are you bringing these painters for?" Huo Guang's decisions are often puzzling, but in the end they are all profound. Huo Tang was very puzzled by taking so many painters on tour.

"Naturally, I have prepared a big gift for our Emperor Majesty! The scenery of the nine southeastern counties is very different from the land of Guanzhong, and I asked these painters to take pictures of the scenery and customs of the nine counties on silk silk. Even if His Majesty did not come to the nine southeastern counties, he could still have an intuitive understanding of this. Huo Guang said patiently, when most of the books were still passed down in words in this era, Huo Guang had already thought of presenting the style of the nine southeastern counties to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the way of painting and shadowing, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would definitely like this gift very much.

"Your Excellency has a good idea! This is more intuitive than laying down the nine counties in the southeast, I think the king sent people to make these paintings, will become a hand-me-down! Huo Tang also said excitedly, she was looking forward to what kind of scenery of the nine counties would be depicted by these accompanying painters.

"There is another thing to do, you instruct the scouts to make a simple measurement every time they go, since the nine southeastern counties are already the territory of the Great Han, then the Great Han should also have a complete map of the nine southeastern counties." Huo Guang ordered again, but he wanted to draw a map of the nine southeastern counties.

It can be said that every plan of Huo Guang, no matter how big or small, is to completely integrate the nine southeastern counties into the Han Dynasty little by little, and the things that were originally related to South Vietnam have been erased by him little by little.

Xixian Ling led his subordinates to greet Huo Guang outside the city early, because most of the nine southeastern counties have not yet arrived, and all localities take the county as the administrative unit, and all military and political affairs are converged with General Pingnan, and in the end, most of them are approved by Huo Tang.

"Xiaguan meets General Pingnan" Xixian Commander is still the one who originally belonged to Nanyue, he surrendered early, and he is not Lu Jia's protégé, so Huo Guang kept him to continue to be the county commander. After all, this huge South Vietnam still needs some local snakes to help the Han maintain its rule.

"The prefectural order, please." Huo Guang motioned for Xixian Ling to get up. Although the cheekbones are high and raised, and the skin is much darker than that of the Central Plains, it still has a bit of the shadow of the Han people of the Central Plains, and it should be the descendants of the Han people of mixed blood in South Vietnam.

When Huo Guang inspected the counties of the nine counties, Lu Bode also took only more than 20,000 people to start suppressing bandits in various parts of the nine counties in the southeast, the so-called bandits were those indigenous tribes who were hidden in the dense forests of South Vietnam and refused to surrender to the Han, or a large number of South Vietnamese soldiers who fled to the mountains at that time.

When Huo Guang led the painter to depict the mountains and rivers, geography and customs, and draw the map of the nine counties in the southeastern nine counties, in the mountains and forests far away from the city, bloody massacres were also unfolding at the same time. In Huo Guang's order, all the tribes that were unwilling to surrender and accept the management of the Han Dynasty were all slaughtered. This is an unknown war, but the number of people killed in this war is far greater than the total population of Huo Guang Tu City.

The tribes that originally lived on the land of South Vietnam for hundreds of thousands of years, with a population ranging from dozens to 35,000 people, completely disappeared into the long river of history under the sweep of Lu Bode's army.

As Huo Guang's footsteps stepped through one county after another in the nine southeastern counties, he carried more and more paintings and silks behind him, and now he has loaded a full carriage. And as winter turns to spring, the land of the nine counties has gradually stepped out of the atmosphere of gunsmoke and war. Under the instruction of Huo Guang, Lu Shu united with several other big businessmen of the Han Dynasty, and quickly opened up the trade routes between the hinterland of the Central Plains and the nine southeastern counties, and a large number of goods were traded by land and water, with the development of trade routes, the Central Plains culture was rapidly penetrated into the nine southeastern counties, and even many upper-class people in the nine southeastern counties have begun to be proud of using paper and wearing Central Plains clothing!

"Your Majesty, the news of Chang'an has arrived!" Huo Tang carried a bamboo hat surrounded by white gauze curtains, which Huo Guang made for Huo Tang when he thought of a kind of female sunshade hat in Rinan County that day. The sun in the south is fierce, and with this special hat, Huo Tang still maintains fair skin, but Huo Guang has been tanned a lot, which also adds a bit of battlefield atmosphere.

"Look at you like this, doesn't it look like a trivial matter?" Huo Guang saw Huo Tang's rare seriousness, and knew that he was afraid that something big had happened in Chang'an.

"Dr. Yu Shi has been imprisoned, it seems that the prime minister has won!" Huo Tang lifted the curtain and said in Huo Guang's ear.

"It's too early to say whether the winner will be defeated or lost, but we can order Yang Fu and He Yi's troops to attack Dongyue and Jilan with all their might. Tell Yang Servant Benjun to wait for his return in Chang'an, and send an envoy to order Yelang and Bashu to join forces with our army to capture Helan, and my Han only needs half of Helan, add two counties to Qianwei, and let them divide the other half by themselves. The plan Huo Guang said seemed to have been thought of a long time ago.

"So we can really go back to Chang'an? It's just that why do you want to give half of Jilan to Bashu and Yelang? Huo Tang was also very happy to think that she could return to Chang'an soon, but she didn't understand that she would give up half of the land of Helan to Bashu and Yelangguo.

"The land in the southwest is countless times more complicated than that of South Vietnam, and it can only be slowly mapped there. First expanding the scope of Jianwei County, and then letting Bashu and Yelang see the immediate benefits, can help the Han Dynasty completely annex Lan. That's the best trade-off right now. Huo Guang knew in his heart that it was not impossible for the Han to completely eat Helan, but the terrain there was more complicated, and the mountain people lived more scattered, so the Han had no energy to control and develop, so it was better to let Bashu and Yelang help suppress it. In fact, Huo Guang knew that if it weren't for the 500,000 troops of the pre-Qin Dynasty that had been operating under the leadership of the Zhao family for nearly a hundred years, it would be impossible for him to really collect the Han once and for all.

In the days that followed, Huo Guang continued to inspect the rest of the nine southeastern counties. And every few days Huo Guang can receive the good news of Yang Fu's attack on Dongyue and He Yi's attack on Helan, and when Huo Guang's order to attack with all his strength is issued, he has a promise to Bashu Yelang. Neither Dongyue nor Jilan could resist the peak of the Han Corps.

Huo Guang listened to the cities being captured, and when many enemy generals had begun to defect and surrender to the Han Dynasty, Huo Guang finally ordered to go down and prepare to pack up and return to the court. Subsequently, a recital of General Pingnan's imminent return to the court also appeared at the court meeting in Weiyang Palace.

However, a few days ago, the imperial historian Zhang Tang was imprisoned, and the entire court was panicked, and it didn't seem to have caused much attention to Huo Guang's return to the court. However, after learning the news, Anyang Junfu put on the lights and waited for her master to return.

When Huo Guang finished inspecting the nine southeastern counties, the Dongyue battlefield and the Jilan battlefield were basically over. When he came to Yangshan Pass again with the army of the Southern Expedition, because of the continuous battle, there were only 17,800 people behind him. In the Dongyue battlefield, there were 20,000 troops of the Yang Servant Division, plus Zhu Maichen's 10,000 county soldiers, and the 40,000 South Vietnamese soldiers brought by Shangguan Ji later, a total of 70,000 troops, and there were less than 30,000 people left after statistics, of which more than 10,000 South Vietnamese soldiers survived. The number of Han soldiers killed in the battlefields of South Vietnam and East Vietnam alone reached more than 30,000, and the number of South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed reached hundreds of thousands.

"Your Majesty, something big happened in Chang'an again....." This time Huo Tang lost some of his previous calmness and composure, and rarely showed a trace of panic.

"Don't panic, the sky won't fall!" After experiencing this battle of the Southern Expedition, Huo Guang was more stable and calm.

"The Prime Minister and the Imperial Doctor are dead...... Your Majesty wants you to go back to Chang'an immediately! Huo Tang said with some gasps, it can be seen that she should have trotted over just now.

"How did you die?" Huo Guang asked in a deep voice.

"Those who committed suicide, the imperial doctor committed suicide in prison, and the prime minister committed suicide at home." Huo Tang said in an unbelievable tone, when she first heard the news, even she didn't believe it.

"It seems that this time the dynasty is still in power, and this monarch must not be peaceful..... The herald ordered to speed up the march and return to Chang'an as soon as possible! Huo Guang sighed, and finally ordered to return to Chang'an as soon as possible.

Huo Guang knew in his heart that now that the imperial doctor and the prime minister both committed suicide, the power vacuum left by them was very huge. Although he has no intention of fighting for these two positions, he is returning with the power of destroying the country after all, and even if he has no intention of fighting, he will naturally become the target of other forces. Huo Guang even predicted that the first thing the big and small forces in the DPRK and China would have to deal with was himself, because he had become the biggest obstacle in front of these people who wanted the position of the Three Princes!