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Wufeng was speechless for a long time, he didn't know that now was the best time to pass through the south, but the situation in the east was unclear, facing the impact of drought and locust plagues, the internal situation of the empire was already surging, especially the situation in the five lakes was even more turbulent, Situ Biao's power swelled sharply, and one rose and the other, Situ Jun's power was shrinking, according to the latest intelligence, Jiujiang Mansion's Taiping Yu Cheng Dayou also secretly got on the line with Situ Biao, Wufeng was very worried that Situ Biao would recover Huanggang in one fell swoop when the time was ripe, and completely take his brother's power into his own。 Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Once there is a major turmoil in the situation, if I fall into the southern front, I am afraid it will be difficult to draw enough troops to deal with the changes in the situation in the east.

Although the southern peninsular alliance countries are not as united as the Nanyang Alliance, but because of their grasp of the commercial route, the two major powers in the eastern continent, including the Nanyang Alliance and the Maqi Khan, as well as the southern power of the Central Continent, the Western Oran Kingdom, are very interested in this important place, and they also signed a "Ulgen Treaty" to ensure the smooth trade route in the south, stipulating that all the signatory countries have the obligation and responsibility to defend this trade route from the control and influence of foreign forces.

And now the Pasha Kingdom in its southern series of raids, although not related to the status of the peninsula alliance states, has also aroused the high vigilance of the West Oran Kingdom, and began to provide military assistance to the southern countries and city-states of the Central Continent that were attacked by the Pasha Kingdom, and the peninsula alliance countries also donated huge sums of money to recruit a large number of mercenaries to the battlefield of the southern countries of the Central Continent because they were afraid of the expansion of the Pasha Kingdom's power to the south, so that the offensive of the Pasha people was also stopped.

If you go south with all your strength now, you may be able to take a few places for a while, not to mention the peninsula alliance countries, even the Maqi Khans and the Nanyang Alliance will definitely not sit idly by and watch this lifeline be controlled by themselves, and their own southward movement is very likely to turn into a protracted war of attrition.

Although the number of their own armies is not large, the combat effectiveness is not weak, and the most important thing is that almost every city-state or principality has hired a large number of mercenaries, and the number of mercenaries in some principalities has even reached 30,000, far exceeding the number of their own troops, and the number of mercenaries owned by the Peninsula Alliance alone has reached more than 30 and more than 100,000 people, and most of these mercenaries are retired soldiers or reserve soldiers from several major military powers in the western continent, and even a considerable number of soldiers who have escaped from the regular army of their motherland in order to make money, only a small number are locals, and the combat effectiveness is no different from the regular army of ordinary countries, and even more than in some aspects, which is one of the reasons why Wu Feng is most worried.

If you really get caught in the quagmire of the war in the south, it will inevitably affect your strategy on the eastern front, and it is not impossible to fight on multiple fronts, but you must measure your own strength and whether you are capable of maintaining a multi-front war, and if you have unfounded self-confidence, it will become arrogant and will inevitably be defeated.

Business is important, and access to the sea is also what you desire, but this must be based on reality, Wu Feng shook his head and vetoed Liang Chongxin's opinion, at least in the current situation, the conditions are not yet ripe, maybe after the situation in the Central Plains is stabilized, you might as well consider the possible surname of going south, but at the moment it can only go to Burma.

Listening to Wufeng's views slowly, although Liang Chongxin had some objections, the Peninsula Alliance was not as united as imagined, and the goods of the Nanyang Alliance could be transported by sea in the case of the cutting off of trade routes, Liang Chongxin did not think that the Nanyang Alliance would clash with the northwest side for the sake of trade routes, he thought that the members of the parliament of the Nanyang Alliance did not have such courage, but what the boss said also made some sense, that is, the center of gravity of his side was still placed in the east, unless the direction was adjusted and the eastern strategy plan was temporarily abandoned, more troops should not be put into other regions, whether it was the south or the west。 Still, he proposed to intensify intelligence gathering in the area south of Burma and to increase political penetration and economic control over the region, so that when the time comes, the maximum benefits can be achieved at the minimum cost in the future.

Although the supervision department was the first to enter Tiannan, the speed of the administrative department was not slow, because the number of officials who followed the Lang clan to abandon the official was quite large, especially after Wufeng announced that as long as the Western Xinjiang Protectorate took over Tiannan, the matter was not to blame, but once the Western Xinjiang Protectorate officially intervened in the management, it would re-examine and supervise the officials of the ministries, and the Tiannan Governors set off a wave of frenzy of abandoning officials and going to the wilderness, and the middle and senior officials in the administrative departments of the five prefectures and the army followed the example of their original masters, and transferred the income from the Huan Hai for many years to the Nanyang Commercial Bank, and many people even sold their property, and then moved his family to the countries of the Nanyang Alliance, or went to the sea to do business, or to be a happy apartment, only to be happy that the Nanyang Commercial Bank smiled, and increased a lot of funds out of thin air, and its strength increased greatly. However, the Northwest Bank, which followed up, was implicated by the Western Xinjiang Protectorate, no matter how to explain it, almost none of these officials who abandoned their official positions were willing to deposit their funds in the Northwest Bank.

In view of the fact that the shortage of a large number of officials has seriously affected the normal work of the administrative departments, and that the officials who have been replenished from the northwest and the students who have graduated from the Northwest University are simply unable to fill so many vacancies, Wu Feng had no choice but to instruct Wang Zongxi, who had already gone to Tiannan to preside over the administrative work of the Standing Administration, to immediately formulate rules for the temporary selection of officials, and to prepare to select those who have both ability and political integrity from among the local ordinary and grass-roots officials and directly promote them to important positions. With the exception of some key departments such as the interior and intelligence and the chief officials of various ministries, many positions are vacant, and the Government Affairs Bureau of the Western Xinjiang Metropolitan Protectorate will directly publicize these vacant positions to the public and publish them in the Southwest Morning Post, the largest newspaper in Tiannan and Burma, and announce in the morning newspaper that all vacant positions will be selected from among the original grass-roots and ordinary officials and scholars recommended by the local gentry and businessmen, and that the entire process will be supervised by the supervision department of the Western Xinjiang Metropolitan Protectorate to prevent favoritism and irregularities from doing so.

This news immediately caused a strong sensation in the Tiannan Prefectures and the surrounding areas, this kind of direct selection of middle and senior officials from the grassroots and ordinary officials and civilians is the first time in the Tang River Empire, especially the direct selection of middle and senior officials from the common people is unheard of, the political power advantages established by the scholars for hundreds of years have all been abandoned in this selection, this kind of direct giving the middle and lower class ordinary people the opportunity to leap into the dragon gate makes the middle and lower class people's recognition of the new lord immediately increased exponentially, and Li Wufeng's reputation immediately spread rapidly throughout the Tiannan land towns and villages。

According to the statistical survey of public opinion in Tiannan by the security department at the time, Li Wufeng's recognition rate was only less than 20% when he first entered Tiannan, and after the meeting with Lang Yongquan, the recognition rate rose to more than 30% after sending the other party to leave with his family, and a week after the announcement of this move, the recognition rate quickly soared to more than 60%, and after the selection was completed and the appointment was announced, the recognition rate soared to 70%, and he was able to achieve such an effect in a new territory, especially a new territory where the previous lord did not have too many unethical behaviors, and even Wufeng and Wang Zongxi did not expect it afterwards。

This selection attracted almost all the ordinary grass-roots officials and a large number of civilian scholars in the five prefectures of Tiannan to participate, and Wang Zongxi also adhered to the intention of Wufeng, and ingeniously divided them into administrative affairs, finance and taxation, comprehensive economy, agriculture and water conservancy, industrial and commercial development, culture and education, medicine and health, urban planning and construction, law, and so on. Finance and other major categories, requiring each person to participate in the selection must carefully choose the industry they are proficient in and good at, and one person can only choose one major, that is to say, one person only has one chance.

The conservative nobles in the five mansions of Tiannan took such measures to change their surnames in the face of the newly appointed lords, although they did not dare to oppose it directly, but this kind of direct deprivation of the rights and interests of the nobles was also intolerable, and they also knew that the new lords had always acted independently, and their behavior was very different from other important lords of the empire, but this time they had to express their opinions, otherwise the continuation of similar situations would greatly damage the political interests of the entire Tiannan clan. They united and sent a representative to meet Li Wufeng, demanding that the new lord, who was a nobleman and an imperial concubine, must consider the difference in rights between the nobles and the Shu and commoners, and fully protect the rights and interests of the scholars.

Wu Feng politely vetoed this request, but in order to appease the dissatisfaction of the nobles, as a compromise, Wu Feng agreed that the children of the nobles could participate in this selection, and made specific requirements and restrictions on the participation of the children of commoners in the selection, that is, the commoners participating in the selection must obtain a guarantor's character guarantee, and this guarantor must have one of three identities to be qualified as a guarantor, that is, nobles, industrial and commercial owners (must be members of the county chamber of commerce or the chamber of commerce of various prefectures), Administrative officials (of any rank) seem to satisfy the vanity of the nobles, but in fact they do not have much of a restrictive effect, after all, the industrial and commercial owners are happy to provide guarantees for the talented, so why not do such a effortless but unsatisfactory thing?

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