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Unfortunately, Shiyan's talent was far inferior to Cortez's, and his Aztec expedition was full of ups and downs.

Although the Vietnamese soldiers have absolute military superiority and are often able to defeat the indigenous tribes in one attack, Shiyan's diplomatic skills have never been able to make up for the shortcomings of the Vietnamese human resources. Some indigenous tribes who had just surrendered by force would rather join the defeated Aztec Empire than follow the victorious Shiyan.

Of course, Shiyan also has the hardships of Shiyan.

When Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire, there was only one power in Central America, Spain, but at this time, there were three forces in Central America: Vietnam, Weiguo, and Spain. Angry at Yue's greed, Wei Guo sent people to support the Aztec Empire, hoping that the Aztec Empire would cut off the trade route between Yue and Spain; Although Spain had established a pan-alliance relationship with the Yue Kingdom, they were quite hostile to the Yue Kingdom because of cultural conflicts and religious conflicts, and they also tried desperately to prevent the Aztec conquest of Shiyan.

The reason why the local indigenous tribes surrendered for a while and rebelled for a while was also because of the demagoguery of the Patriotic and Spanish countries.

The relationship between the three kingdoms of Yue, Weiguo, and Spain is like that of the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, and neither of them will really want each other to be strong.

Considering the upper limit of Shiyan's capabilities, his plan for Aztec conquest had a high probability of failing. Although Wei Dongsheng did not have the subjective desire to crush and conquer the Aztec Empire, he did not want to see the Yue soldiers end up in a crushing defeat under the leadership of Shiyan, after all, the Yue royal family were all descendants of Wei Dongsheng's bloodline, and the Yue Kingdom was also part of the Wei Xia Empire. Meat, it's better to rot in your own pot. Thinking from the butt of the Wei Xia Empire, if the Aztec Empire was doomed, Wei Dongsheng still hoped that Yue Guo could replace Spain as the ruler of Central America.

After a few months of minor repairs in Mazu Port, Wei Dongsheng immediately rushed to Yuelai Port non-stop.

Then, after spending several months arranging, Wei Dong was able to overwhelm Shiyan, who had little success, and was quickly promoted to the top military commander of Yuelai Port. Wei Dongsheng revised Shiyan's shoddy foreign policy and gradually integrated the power of the indigenous tribes with the successful experience of Java Island, and more and more indigenous tribes gradually gathered under the Vietnamese national flag. In this way, the indigenous soldiers of the colony were consumed as cannon fodder, and the Vietnamese soldiers were used as sharp knives to break through the key positions, and in just over two years, Wei Dongsheng pushed the Aztec Empire in waves.

The news spread back to the Old Continent, and Wei Dongsheng and Shi Yan became celebrities of the times in an instant.

Wei Dongsheng and Shi Yan, as students sent to the Yue Kingdom by the Jiaozhi Domain, did not choose to go home to serve the Jiaozhi Domain after graduation, but dedicated their talents to the Yue Domain. If it is a great unified dynasty, public opinion will definitely lash out at such an act of ingratitude. However, the historical reversal of the feudal system gradually brought the concept of the people of Zhuxia back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and everyone could accept the patriot Shang Ying to change the law for the Qin State, and naturally they could also accept the Jiaozhi man Wei Dongsheng to sweep Penglai for the Yue State.

In addition to the gossip of the common people of Jiaozhi, all the vassal states of the Wei Xia Empire unanimously praised the merits of Wei Dongsheng and Shiyan.

The Yue vassal state, which was accustomed to the culture of dividing the feudal system, did not hurriedly pick peaches to force Wei Dongsheng and Shiyan to hand over the fruits of victory, but rewarded the famous ministers on the spot.

In 1499, the Yue State appointed Wei Dongsheng as the envoy of Penglai Jiedu, with jurisdiction over all military, political and civil affairs in Penglai. Wei Dongsheng used the Penglai Festival to effectively integrate the military and economic forces of the Yue State, gradually eliminating the destabilizing factors in Central America, and on the other hand, recognizing the sphere of influence with the Wei Guo, doing his best to smooth the rift between the Yue State and the Wei State, and uniting the Wei State to suppress Spain. Under the leadership of Wei Dongsheng, Penglai Festival is thriving, and the future is getting brighter and brighter

The only regret is that the great sailing adventures in the early years dragged down Wei Dongsheng's body. After only two years of taking office as the envoy of Penglai Festival, Wei Dongsheng was already riddled with illness, and occasionally even coughed and bleed. Barely survived until 1507, Wei Dong was attacked by an invincible disease all his life, coughing up blood and dying of coughing up in the middle of the night at the age of 42.

In terms of age, Wei Dongsheng lived the shortest time in the fourth life.

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It was the 18th day of preparation time, and the fifth life experience was unveiled on time.

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In 1486, Wei Liangzhi died and was succeeded by his fourth son, Wei Shiai, who was the seventh emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

In 1502, Wei Shiai died childless, and was succeeded by his clan relative Wei Jimin, who was the eighth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

In 1519, Wei Jimin died childless, and was succeeded by his clan relative Wei Fengfu, who was the ninth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

From the succession of Wei Jimin to the arrival of Wei Dongsheng V in 1525, the territory of the Wei Xia Empire was relatively peaceful.

The reason is simple.

Before the Wei Xia Dynasty, the land of Yue and Weiguo was a barren land in the eyes of the people of the Central Plains. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, although the Yue and Wei kingdoms were able to give birth to warlords in troubled times, it was difficult for these warlords to influence the situation in the Central Plains. The Sui and Tang dynasties ended the melee between the north and the south, and the two places looked at the wind and surrendered; The Zhao and Song dynasties ended the division of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and the two places still could not afford to make waves, even if there was an unfortunate accident of Jiaozhi's independence, Jiaozhi did not have any hope of the Northern Expedition to Bianliang. Further afar, even if the Zhu Ming Dynasty in the real world is taken as an example, Zhu Yuanzhang got Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, and he easily captured and killed Chen Youding, forcing He Zhen to surrender without a fight.

In the early days of the Wei Xia Dynasty, the royal family and the vassal states of the Central Plains also did not take the Yue Kingdom and the Wei Kingdom seriously.

The royal family thought that the northern vassal states such as the Lu State, the Zhao State, the Jin State, and the Zhou State, and the Wei Kingdom, the Yue State, the Ming State, and the Han State entrenched in the four fields of the frontier could all be transmitted. The northern vassal states were also thinking the same, they felt that dominating the Central Plains was dominating the Weixia Empire. At the same time, the Yue vassal state and the Wei vassal state also clearly understood the potential of the two places, and gave up their ambition to dominate the Central Plains early. It was also because of these times that the two countries focused on maritime trade, which led the Wei Xia Dynasty to usher in great geographical discoveries.

However, the profits of maritime trade quietly fed the Yue and Wei countries.

The resources of the Americas and the gold and silver of Europe brought about by the great geographical discoveries have changed from quantity to quality.

In 1498, Wei Dongsheng conquered the Penglai indigenous tribes in central China represented by the Aztec Empire; In 1509, Shiyan once again led an army south to conquer the indigenous tribes of Penglai in the south, represented by the Inca Empire. Perhaps with Wei Dongsheng's example to learn from, or perhaps the Inca Empire could not have foreign aid such as Spain and Weiguo to look forward to, Shiyan lived up to expectations and successfully completed its mission. After the conquest of the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire, gold, silver, copper, sulfur, saltpeter and other resources were transported back to the Yue Kingdom one after another, and the comprehensive strength of the Yue Kingdom quietly surpassed the traditional strong vassals of the Central Plains.

The royal family and the northern vassal states all felt the pressure, and they all stared at the Yue Kingdom and the Wei Kingdom after the sudden wealth. The Vietnamese and the Patriotic Empires were also aware of these hostile sentiments, and in order to maintain the profits of the seas, the two countries desperately recruited navies and armies, and the huge amounts of gold and silver were turned into one warship after another and one infantry after another.

Behind the relative calm is the surging arms race of the vassal states.

Perhaps with a single spark, the empire could break out into a melee far beyond the intensity of Wei Hui's thirteen-year war in Luoyang.

Just when the old balance was about to break, Wei Dongsheng descended on the Yulong Mansion (Mexico City).

The perspective shifts to Penglai.

After the death of the fourth Wei Dongsheng, the Yue Kingdom remotely controlled the military forces stationed on the Penglai continent with flexible diplomacy.

In 1510, the Yue Kingdom split the Penglai Jiedu Envoy Jurisdiction, with the real-world Mexico and the United States Southwest Border as the Laizhong Jiedu Envoy Jurisdiction, and the real-world South America Territory as the Lainan Jiedu Envoy Jurisdiction.

In 1517, the Yue Kingdom split the Laizhong Jiedu Envoy Jurisdiction, and the real-world California State was used as the Laibei Jiedu Envoy Jurisdiction.

In 1519, the Yue Kingdom took out the territory of Panama in the real world and set up the Tonghai Governorate in the middle of the Laizhong Jiedu Envoy and the Lainan Jiedu Envoy. The Tonghai Governor's Office is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Laizhong Jiedu Envoy, but in fact, it has a fairly high degree of freedom, and can be regarded as a weak sub-Jiedu Envoy.

The three knots and the first governor's office checked and balanced each other, and the Yue State tried its best to avoid the birth of an independent force in Penglai.

At the same time, the Yue State also forbade Penglai to develop its navy on its own, and the navy stationed in Penglai had the obligation to cooperate with the envoys of various sections and the governor's office to suppress bandits, but the envoys and governors of various places had no right to order the navy stationed in Penglai to serve them. In short, the Vietnamese State used the method of controlling the sea to curb Penglai's independent tendencies, and took advantage of the naval superiority to coerce the envoys and governors of each section to obey the orders of rotation.

By 1525, the system was working well.

Taking Laizhong Jiedu as an example, regardless of the change of the Penglai Jiedu Envoy period, the first Jiedu envoy was the Yue nobleman Sa Andong. From 1510 to 1525, Sa'an Dong served as a festival envoy for 15 years, and almost managed the Laizhong region as his own territory. However, after a series of operations in the Yue Kingdom, Sa Andong finally agreed to relocate the Lainan Jiedu envoy and continue to be loyal to the Yue royal family. On the day of Sa'anton's departure, Wei Silu, a branch of the clan, took over as the second Laizhong Festival envoy.

The compromise between the time of Sa'andong's inauguration and the relocation of the Lainan Jiedu envoy indirectly shows that the control of Penglai by the Vietnamese state is relatively weak, and the local government has great autonomy. In addition to the Laizhong Jiedu envoy who could not pass on the official position to the descendants of the bloodline, the Laidong Jiedu envoy had almost all the authority of the feudal town, and could even cut it first and then play in the prefecture and county.

As an aside, the limited size of the feudal kingdom indirectly led to a significant increase in the importance of prefectures. In the case of the Cochin Domain, for example, it is only a few prefectures. The prefecture and county in the eyes of the Jiaozhi feudal state and the prefecture and county in the eyes of the Han, Tang and Song dynasties had a completely different meaning. Penglai has a vast area, and even goes far into the old land of the Central Plains, if you allow each section to make a private prefect and a county, the small court of Yue will be instantly crowded with Penglai upstarts. How could the local nobles of the Yue Kingdom allow such a thing to happen? In all this, the Yue State deliberately suppressed the subordinate official ranks of the three section envoys and the first capital governor's office, and most of the officials of the Laizhong section envoys were small and powerful.

The perspective is then narrowed down to Wei Dongsheng's fifth life experience.

Compared with the experience of the fourth generation, Wei Dongsheng's identity background continued to decline, and his nominal father was only the mayor of a town in a county in Laizhong Jiedu. The mayor of the town may sound like a petty township official, but in fact, its authority and jurisdiction area are equal to that of a county magistrate, and it may be simply described as the son of a magistrate.

The son of the king of the second generation, the son of the prime minister of the Jin Kingdom of the third generation, the son of the prefect of Jiaozhi in the fourth generation, and the son of the county magistrate of the fifth generation, the downward trend can be described as quite obvious. If the downward trend remains unchanged, Wei Dongsheng's sixth life experience may be the son of a real township bureaucrat.