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The annual Spring Festival is the busiest time for all walks of life in the empire, the traders are busy with the business of the golden season of each year, the farmers are busy buying New Year's goods to go home for the New Year, the workshop owners are busy collecting the money to pay the workers wages and red envelopes, and the officials are busy ushering in the entertainment, and the workers are waiting for the boss to hand out the last money to bring back the rich New Year's goods for the wife and children at home. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In short, there is no one nation like the Tang people to pay as much attention to this spring festival, in the minds of the Tang people, only the spring festival worship ancestors and ghosts after the year is really over, and the new year is really the beginning, and waiting for the old year to pass away and the new year to come, the men, women and children in the family should stay at home as much as possible to spend the last moment of the year, only then can the family be blessed with a smooth and prosperous new year.

This is the first Spring Festival since the founding of the Tang Empire, everyone knows what this means to the empire, His Majesty the Emperor will personally attend the Spring Festival, the Minister of Rites Lao Min has really become a tuberculosis people, at least ten pounds have been lost in the past half a month, the senate and the representatives of the Civic House in Beijing of the counties of the empire will participate in the imperial spring ceremony, from clothing to etiquette, from tribute to the repair and decoration of the altar building, all of this is thrown on the head of the people, plus the original court etiquette officer who can help now has become a concubine, the new court etiquette officer still has no suitable candidate, the lack of people in this bone joint makes the people complain。

In particular, most of the nobles and citizen representatives newly canonized by His Majesty the Emperor are from the grassroots and do not know aristocratic etiquette at all, and many representatives from the Central Continent are even more ignorant, and many of the new concubines who enter the palace are also not familiar with Tang-style court etiquette, all of which need to be taught by officials of the Ministry of Etiquette. If there is a joke in a large-scale celebration such as the Spring Festival, it is not only a matter of being ridiculed by foreign envoys, but also represents the image of the empire.

When everyone is busy preparing for the Spring Festival, Wu Feng, who is the king of a country, is much more relaxed, the governors and some important city guards have already met and returned to their respective jurisdictions, in fact, Wu Feng hopes that Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu will return to Yanjing to taste the taste of the Indean Battle and the Southwest Campaign, he is now very envious of Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu, as the emperor Although he commands the overall situation, but he has lost the possibility of the king's landing line, at least in the foreign conquest he can no longer appear on the front line, maybe there will be some opportunities for the war in the northern region in the future, Wu Feng can only hope for that.

It's a pity that Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu can't return to Yanjing yet, at least not before and after the Spring Festival. The war in the southwest has ended, and the Western Samoans are forced by the power of the imperial army to finally accept the imperial conditions basically unconditionally, and the city republic is abolished and renamed the province of Western Samoa, and like Eastern Samoa, the parliamentarians of the city republic of Western Samoa become electors, and they will elect their representatives, and these people will conditionally transition to the representatives of the Imperial Senate and the House of Citizens in the southwest county, and the empire has made certain concessions in this regard, so that Western Samoa still retains a trace of face.

As the situation in Western Samoa became clearer, the political reforms of Sikkim were also brought to the forefront, and the Republic was abolished without exception and renamed Sikkim, and the city of Sikkim was to become the capital of the future South-West County, which gave the lost Sikkim people a little comfort. In the same way, the members of the Republic elected the representatives of the Imperial Senate and the House of Citizens in the South-West County, and they were much more represented than in Western Samoa, for example, in Western Samoa there was only one representative of the Senate and only two representatives of the House of Citizens, while Sikkim had two representatives of the Senate and three representatives of the House of Citizens.

The city-state of Nan'an was punished for their resistance, it did not have a representative of the Senate, and the number of representatives of the House of Citizens was only a pitiful one, even worse than the most barren principality of Soktu, which made the Nan'an people feel very disappointed, and these two representatives who had already gone to Beijing shouldered the heavy responsibility of fighting for more representatives for the Nan'an people, otherwise in the future southwest county, Nan'an's position would have to be at the bottom.

It is the established policy of the Empire to adopt different attitudes towards the various provinces of the Southwest, and only in this way can the parties in the Southwest not be on the same side, which is inferior but crude, but quite effective, and no one can tolerate the psychological factors that will make it impossible for them to cooperate any longer, in all respects, even if they were once partners in the united front.

However, the southwest region is still in a not very stable situation, although the imperial army firmly controls the whole of Sikkim and Western Samoa, but the number of troops waiting for integration and dismissal in Sikkim and Western Samoa is quite large, and it is not easy to send these soldiers home safely and smoothly, and the main reason why Liang Chongxin stayed in the southwest and did not dare to leave without permission was the reorganization and disbandment of the army.

In the long run, the mercenary empire has adopted a full dismissal method for mercenaries in various places, and after paying sufficient severance expenses, most of the mercenaries can happily embark on the journey back home, and some homeless people, the empire has adopted the recruitment of some of them with rich combat experience as instructors in the army and military academies to train new soldiers, and the remaining part can only be forcibly sent out of the country to order them to leave within a time limit.

Most of the local soldiers were dismissed, and a small number were discharged into the reserves, which required a considerable amount of money, but considering that this matter was very important to the stability of the situation in the southwest region in the future, Wu Feng made an exception and agreed to pay for this expenditure from the central treasury of the empire, which won the unanimous praise of the industrialists and businessmen in the southwest region.

The only exception was the navy, whether it was the Sikkim Navy, the Western Samoa Navy or the Nam An Navy, which was taken over by the Imperial Navy, much to the indignation of the dismissed three armies, but this did not change the attitude of the Imperial Privy Council. The navies of the three regions were merged into the Great South Ocean Fleet of the Imperial Navy, and after disrupted integration and deployment, the Second and Third Fleets of the Great South Ocean Fleet were formed, Lei Cangpu temporarily served as the commander-in-chief of the Great South Ocean Fleet, while the Commander of the Sikkim Naval Fleet served as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Great South Ocean Fleet and the commander of the Second Fleet of the Imperial Navy, and the Commander of the Western Samoa Navy served as the commander of the Third Fleet. Of course, the integration of the navy cannot be achieved overnight, and the completion of the superficial integration does not mean that the combat effectiveness has also been integrated, and it will take a considerable amount of time to re-run, but with a good start, Lei Cangpu has reason to believe that the southwest, which has been completely under the rule of the empire, will become the bridgehead of the empire to the Latin Ocean and the Adriatic Bay.

If Liang Chongxin's inability to return to the imperial capital is mainly due to the situation in the southwest, then this reason does not exist in Cui Wenxiu, whether it is Indean County or Meili County, the overall situation in this area is quite calm, because the influential representatives in the Indean region have stayed in Yanjing to participate in the Spring Festival, it is impossible for anyone to cause trouble, for Cui Wenxiu, this Spring Festival is probably the most peaceful and peaceful Spring Festival. He didn't even know where he was going to spend the deserted Spring Festival, Luxor or Blue Castle, Reed or Lahore, or just going to Kunduz to spend the festival in Pauling.

Although the number of Tang merchants in Luxor and Reed is increasing, many Tang people have forgotten that they need to pay tribute to their ancestors and ghosts in other places, which makes Cui Wenxiu very unhappy. The main reason why Choi Wenxiu could not return to Beijing was actually some other reason, he had always wanted to push for a war against the Hansen League, and to bring Manna, The three provinces of Dexin and Kustan were taken back from the Hansen Alliance, what the Empire needed was a complete Indjan, not a mutilated one, the Empire had been reduced to the Blue Fort and determined to be the capital of West Indjan, if the Hansen Alliance could understand what this meant, they should think about the issue of advance and retreat, if they knew each other, they would be able to withdraw from here, maybe they could win some respect for the Empire, otherwise, fools could see that war was only a matter of time.

Cui Wenxiu hopes that the war against the Hansen Alliance will not be affected by the recuperation policy made by the Imperial Center, but it seems that it has not been able to win the approval of His Majesty the Emperor at this point, and the Empire seems to have ignored the special surnames of each region in order to maintain the unified surname of the policy, Cui Wenxiu does not think that this is a wise decision, he hopes that the Imperial Central Committee will reconsider this issue after careful consideration, of course, before that, the Central Continental Military Command should make a detailed plan for the Hansen Alliance War.

This problem is also suitable for the Meili region, Meili is inseparable, this is Cui Wenxiu's view has always been, although in order to solve the Meili problem in the fastest possible time, he did not hesitate to choose to carve up Meili at that time, but the division of Meili does not mean that it must always maintain this situation, and it is a matter of course for Cui Wenxiu to drive the Delan and West Oran people out of the southern Meili, why should they enjoy the southern Meili? Is it just because they are Meili's neighbors? No, this is not a reason, and the problem should be solved as well, for the same reasons as West Indian!

(To be continued)