The hereditary system was abolished for the titles of high-ranking officials in the imperial court. No matter how big Lao Ziguan is, his son is also a civilian, and he is no different from ordinary people when he walks on the street. If you want to continue to inherit your father's business, you can only study hard. And you have to pass an exam before you are hired by the imperial court.

In short, the magnitude of the policy adjustment and change is unprecedented. However, Sima Hongyan also knows that speed is not enough, and each new policy is set up for a test period, during which opinions are widely listened to, adjusted and modified in a timely manner, and only then officially released and implemented until it is perfected.

In the joy of pacifying Xiyue, Yanling spent a lively New Year. This is also the first New Year after Sima Hongyan became the lord of the phoenix, in order to make the poor places in Yanling have a good New Year, Sima Hongyan distributed imperial grain, and asked the officials to personally deliver it to the poor people.

Although Yanling is rich, there are many poor places, and the local officials are incompetent, eating and waiting for death, and doing nothing. Sima Hongyan acted vigorously and resolutely and dismissed more than 60 incompetent officials in one go, resulting in many states and counties having no parent officials for a while.

Many ministers in the imperial court have advised that it is not appropriate to dismiss such a large number of officials, and such a mobilization of teachers will lead to fluctuations in Yanling's officialdom, and everyone will be in danger at that time, which will be unfavorable to the country.

Sima Hongyan has her own way, she demotes the higher-level officials who have been removed from the official and uses them to take over the vacant position. The reason is that the subordinates are incompetent, and as a superior official, they have unshirkable responsibilities, at least it is a sin of unfavorable supervision, and the use of demotion is to give them another chance, if they still don't do their jobs all day, even if they don't make mistakes, they are not qualified to be officials again.

Sima Hongyan will no longer let those mediocre ministers who do not seek merit but seek no fault to mess around.

After all, most of the subordinate officials in Yanling are old ministers left over from the previous dynasty, some are bought with money, and some are mixed up by nepotism. Although the phoenix lord has excellent ability and is famous all over the world, they think that the emperor is far away, and the phoenix lord can't take care of them.

But Sima Hongyan is a person who pays special attention to details, and ants can still shake elephants even though they are small. So I want to eat under her nose and wait for death, but there is no door!

Even though the turmoil in the officialdom was difficult, Sima Hongyan persevered, and even sent Hongyan troops to conduct private investigations and secret visits, resolutely putting an end to the slackness of officialdom management. It wasn't until it took a lot of twists and turns that it gradually stabilized.

Under the training of the Ten Red Sleeves and the commanders, the ability of the Hongyan Army has improved rapidly, and the number has grown to more than 5,000 people, and the intelligence of the entire Yanling is under the control of the Hongyan Army. Even in remote places, Sima Hongyan knows everything about the situation.

Due to the substantial increase in the number of female soldiers in the Hongyan Army, Sima Hongyan made several targeted adjustments. Originally, there were only ten formations, but at this time it was also expanded to twelve formations, and it was still a direct subordinate unit that only obeyed Sima Hongyan.

The newly added eleven teams formed a professional ambulance team, and Eleven Sleeve Zuo Xiaohan was also the new leader elected by everyone, and this team was completely handed over to Zhong Liying for deployment. Because in addition to their excellent military skills, the most outstanding thing is that they also have extraordinary medical talents, and everyone's ability is not worse than that of the imperial doctor.

The twelve-sleeved Zhou Xiyun is also a leader in the women's army, she is not very old, and her talent is extremely high, and she has been widely recognized by the female soldiers, and she has become a member of the leaders after being promoted.

The current twelve red sleeves have become the most solid backing for Sima Hongyan and his four younger sisters.

After Nan Xunyan and Guo Zidi got married, the two fell in love. Guo Zidi was transferred to an important position in the army by Sima Hongyan and began to train Yanling soldiers to improve their combat effectiveness. Nan Xunyan still serves as an instructor in the women's army, she teaches her skills, and the strong combat ability of the women's army is all due to Nan Xunyan.

A year later, Li Mingzhong of Xiangguo and Liao Ziling, the general of Zhenguo, led dozens of old ministers to apply for resignation to Sima Hongyan at the same time. Their reason is that after seeing Sima Hongyan's method of governing the country during this period of time, they found that they could not keep up with Sima Hongyan's ideas at all, on the contrary, the cooperation between the younger generation and Sima Hongyan was becoming more and more tacit. They felt that the future of Yanling could be handed over to these young people, and there was no need for them to stay in the court and rely on the old and sell the old.

Sima Hongyan repeatedly retained, but these old ministers always refused. Sima Hongyan is not a hypocritical person, since the uncles and grandfathers trust herself from the bottom of their hearts, she will no longer force her to stay, and according to the requirements of each minister, she will be knighted and fiefdomed, so that they can spend their old age in peace.

From then on, the position of the head of the civil officials of the imperial court was held by Li Siyu and Ban Lingruo respectively, Li Siyu was the left prime minister, and Ban Lingruo was the right prime minister, and jointly assisted Sima Hongyan in handling state affairs.

General Zhenguo is also divided into left generals and right generals, which are served by Guo Zidi and Ban Lingruo respectively.

Nan Guying is the most interesting, he doesn't want any official position at all, but asks to be the chief instructor of the Yanling army. When there was no war, he was responsible for the training of the Yanling army, and he was responsible for teaching soldiers combat skills in peacetime. If there is a war, it is enough to be ordered to fight again.

Xiao Hongying took over the position of deputy commander of the Hongyan Army, responsible for the deployment of the women's army on weekdays, and cooperated with Sima Hongyan to jointly govern the women's army.

Some other young ministers also took up corresponding official positions according to their abilities, and the entire court of Yanling was transformed into a group of young people overnight.

Since Xiyue became the territory of Yanling and became the western capital of Yanling, it can be said that a few families are happy and a few are sad. Through a period of trade with Yanling, Beiling traded a large number of materials, and the living standards of the people of Beiling improved day by day. Emperor Beiling Han Beiying also sent a congratulatory letter specifically for Sima Hongyan to take Xiyue.

When Sima Hongyan attacked Xiyue, thanks to the Hanbei Eagle sending troops to contain Dongning, he had to worry about the future. Sima Hongyan gave Beiling a great gift as a token of gratitude, and supervised the construction of underground trade routes, so that long-term cooperation between Yanling and Beiling could be established as soon as possible.

Lan Shengwen, the emperor of Dongning, was really shocked when he heard that Sima Hongyan had defeated Xiyue in less than half a year after sending troops, and he also made Xiyue bow down to Yanling, and even changed his name. At this time, he discovered that this young Yanling Phoenix Lord had far more ability and insight than he imagined, and his courage in doing things was difficult for ordinary people to match.

He already knew that the sixth princess Lan Aoxin had kidnapped Sima Hongyan, and he was full of jealousy of Yanling for a while. He knew that Sima Hongyan was definitely a person who would take revenge, and now that Bei Ling was friendly with her again, Sima Hongyan would lead the army to kill her one day, so Lan Shengwen didn't dare to act rashly in a short period of time. While arranging defenses on the border, he sent people to the South to state the stakes, hoping to reach an alliance with the South China and rely on each other.

When spring was approaching, Xiahou Shuojie of the Western Capital of Yanling sent a letter to Sima Hongyan, saying that he had married Zuo Mansha, and that the industrial workshop in the Western Capital had almost been built, and the next step was to vigorously develop industry and work towards the plan agreed with Sima Hongyan.

Through the report of the Western Capital spies, Xiahou Shuojie's governance effect is not bad, and the people also fully support him, and there are no ill actors for the time being.

After Sima Hongyan returned to Beijing, he sent a lot of supplies to the Western Capital, which was too poor, and he would have trouble sooner or later without food or drink, which was also something that could not be helped. Support them to tide over the difficulties for the time being, and once the industry can develop, at least the West Vietnamese can maintain a normal life.

When everything is arranged, all that remains is to proceed step by step, and Sima Hongyan is a little free.

When it was almost dinner that day, Sima Hongyan and Xiao Hongying were chatting in the courtyard, and Nan Guying happened to come to her.

During this time, Nan Guying was busy training the army, always leaving early and returning late, and he and Sima Hongyan hadn't seen each other for a few days. I finished it a little earlier today, so I eagerly came to visit Sima Hongyan. It just so happened that Sima Hongyan was fine today, and the two showed a smile that they hadn't seen for a long time when they met. Xiao Hongying is a big ghost, and as soon as Nan Guying came, he slipped away quietly with great interest.

The acacia of the past few days has already haunted Nan Guying's dreams, and when she saw Sima Hongyan standing there, she couldn't wait to rush up and hold her in her arms to comfort the pain of lovesickness.

Sima Hongyan and Nan Guying hadn't seen him for many days, and saw that he was slightly tanned, but the whole person was even more radiant, and couldn't help but smile: "Chief instructor!" I don't know if under your training, my Yanling soldiers will grow? ”

Nan Guying saw that there was no one else in the courtyard, walked over quickly, stopped his waist and picked up Sima Hongyan, and said with a smile: "You haven't seen me for so many days, do you miss me?" ”

In front of Nan Guying, Sima Hongyan immediately turned into a little woman, and was suddenly picked up by him, his cheeks were flushed, his face was full of shame, and he held Nan Guying's face with both hands and said: "How much you miss me, how much I miss you!" ”

Training with a group of men all day long, my ears are full of shouting and shouting, and every day is shrouded in masculinity. At this time, the soft words lingered in the ears, which was simply indescribably beautiful. The longing and suppression for many days exploded in an instant, Nan Guying put down Sima Hongyan, hugged him, lowered his head and kissed him fiercely.

was tightly clasped by Nan Guying's arms, Sima Hongyan couldn't dodge, looking at his anxious look, Sima Hongyan tilted his head embarrassedly, but he was still kissed on the red lips by the other party.

A long sweet deep kiss was drunk, and the two people were nailed to the spot motionless, only the tongues stirring each other, and you came and went without retreating.

A lover's kiss is like wine, and the more you taste it, the easier it is to get drunk. Sima Hongyan was intoxicated and unwilling to extricate himself, even if he was already sour and soft, his eyes were like silk, he was still unwilling to resist the wonderfulness brought by the confusion.

Today, Nan Guying's kiss was so warm and domineering, but Sima Hongyan did not show weakness and flinched, and catered with all his might, completely ignoring that someone would break in and bump into him. In fact, except for Xiao Hongying's girl, no one dared to trespass into Lord Feng's Fengming Palace.

Even if Nan Guying is a righteous gentleman, he can't resist the coquettish temptation of Sima Hongyan. This time, it was Nan Guying who was the first to leave Sima Hongyan's warm red lips, and he covered up the impulse that was about to explode and said, "I'm hungry!" ”

Sima Hongyan smiled "poof", her face was delicate, her intoxicated phoenix eyes blinked charmingly, pursed her hot lips, and said softly: "I'll have someone bring food right away, in fact, I'm already hungry!" ”

Speaking of the emotional matter between Sima Hongyan and Nan Guying, I am afraid that the entire Yanling knows about it, and even the fact that they agreed to get married in Xiyue does not know how it is known to everyone.