Just when the New Year of the forty-second year of the Xia calendar was about to arrive, the 200,000 Sui troops on Yizhou Island, who had been abandoned by the Sui Empire, finally surrendered helplessly under the dual offensive of the Xia army's force and ideology.

This was the last formed Sui army to surrender on the territory of the Xia State, and their surrender also marked the complete victory of the Xia army in the all-out war against the Sui Empire, and the recovery of Yizhou also marked the smooth opening of the north-south sea route of the Xia State again.

After the news spread, tens of millions of people in the north and south of the Xia Kingdom spontaneously celebrated, and they went out of their homes one after another to take out all kinds of wine and food to entertain the Xia soldiers and the surrounding villagers and neighbors, or use other ways to vent the joy in their hearts.

From now on, they can generously tell others that their country is the most powerful country in the world, and that it is a regime that can protect the people of their country.

In a series of wars, the Xia State actually wiped out nearly three million troops of the Sui Empire, of course, this data is after adding those young and strong people of the Sui Empire, after all, those people are qualified soldiers who are armed and have experienced a few battles.

Before the defeat of the Sui Empire, a large part of the people of Xia were very nervous, and even a considerable number of people moved away from the northern mainland and chose to migrate to Nanyang or even overseas territories, and they were finally relieved after winning the war this time.

Because of the previous war between the Xia State and the Sui Empire, the people of the Xia Kingdom did not have a good year last year, and now that the war has stopped, most of the soldiers have also gone home, so the entire Xia Kingdom from south to north, from east to west is preparing for a cheerful New Year.

Not only in the Xia country itself, but also the residents of the Xia country's homeless gathering places on all continents are also happy with the achievements of the Xia country, although they were all exiled to this thousands of miles away for various reasons, but their lives are also well guaranteed.

And the major vassal states in the West also held their own celebrations after receiving this news, not only the victory of the Xia Kingdom can give them more support, but even they can use the name of the Xia Kingdom to deter Western powers such as the Roman Empire.

After all, these vassal states are all vassals of the Xia State, and once they really encounter an enemy that they can't resist, the Xia State will inevitably give them a head, and it is possible to provide all kinds of support or even send troops to help.

After the New Year, Wang Ze returned to Zhenhai County after a long absence, but Liaodong City is beginning large-scale construction activities, and a new city that can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people outside the original city is being planned and constructed.

Wang Ze's intention to move the main administrative institutions to Liaodong City is clear.

It is not that no one suggested that the capital should be moved to Jiangzhou City, which is located close to the center, but the inland location here is not conducive to the good rule of the vast overseas territory of the Xia Kingdom, and Jiangzhou City is not too far from Zhenhai County, so it does not make much sense to move here.

Liaodong City is different, although it is not close to the sea, it is only a few hundred miles away, and there is also the Liaohe River water transportation nearby.

More importantly, the railway foundation from Liaodong City to Beisha Port (Dalian) has been completed, and it only takes half a year to connect with this ice-free port, and then goods arriving from overseas can land from Beisha Port and reach Liaodong City.

At the same time, the railway from Liaodong City to Zhuojun is also under construction, and Liaodong City will be a very important transportation hub in the future.

After returning to Zhenhai, Wang Ze was finally able to spend a reunion with his family, at this time, in addition to the eldest son Wang Dong and the second son Wang Rui, who had not yet returned because they were following Yang Wu to attack the Persian Empire, the other children and their respective wives and children, husbands, and children were all there.

Wang Ze's youngest son Wang Ke is only fifteen years old this year, and he is like a child who has not grown up, and Zhu Tong, the eldest son of the eldest sister Wang Feng, and Cheng Chu, the son of the second sister Wang Xuan, are in a mess together.

Today's Xia State has formed its own mode of operation, except for the large financial and personnel appointment and dismissal power and the military power firmly controlled by Wang Ze, all the others are responsible for the Government Council and other departments, and no transgression is allowed.

The local control system is also that each level only obeys its own superior, that is, the central government council cannot issue orders to the county officials, and the county officials can justifiably disobey the direct orders of the government council, and the villages and towns below can also resist the orders of the county guard.

At present, the basic villager autonomy of the Xia State has been implemented from the village to the town level, under Wang Ze's severe crackdown for many years, as well as the inheritance division system, it is difficult for the Xia State to form a relatively large clan, so the villages and towns of the Xia State are very stable at present.

Although the court system is inevitably affected by other aspects, they have always been independent because they will not be controlled by others, and they can better ensure the fairness and impartiality of the judiciary.

For more than 20 days before and after the New Year, Wang Ze has been accompanying his family to play around, and at the same time, he is also carefully observing the customs and folk customs of various places, after walking along the railway and various roads in many counties, Wang Ze is basically satisfied, and in the eyes of many people who have just migrated from the Sui Empire, Xia is already a paradise.

As soon as the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed, Wang Ze suddenly found out that his matter was coming.

On the first day of the official work of the various official offices on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, hundreds of officials from all over the town and abroad suddenly jointly submitted a table and asked Wang Ze to be the emperor!

The behavior of these officials woke up many people in the Xia Kingdom, and they suddenly discovered that the great monarch who led them to live a happy life has only been crowned with the title of a king until now, which is simply too unusual!

How powerful and arrogant the Turks were at the beginning, they defeated Rouran, hated the Xiongnu, and dominated the world without being invincible, and the south looked at the two countries like children, but now they have not been completely destroyed by their own kings, and even those Turks who dominated the world at the beginning were almost wiped out, and the rest have honestly become herdsmen on the islands of the East China Sea.

How powerful the Sui Empire was! With millions of troops, tens of millions of Dingkou, and three million troops were sent to attack it, and millions of troops were wiped out under the fight of their own king, so that Emperor Yang Jian of Sui died of illness, and the new emperor Yang Guang had to pay money and cede land to seek peace.

It only took more than a year, and the speed of the expansion of the territory of the Xia Kingdom made the people of the Xia Kingdom seem a little strange and afraid.

The distance from east to west is nearly 20,000 li, and there are at least 20,000 li from the southernmost coral island (Bali) in the southmost part of the South Sea to the northernmost part of the North Sea.

This is still the case of excluding Yanfu Island (Australia) further south of the coral island, if you count Penglai Continent, Fang Changzhou Continent, Yingzhou tens of thousands of miles away, and overseas territories in the Western Ocean, today's Xia Kingdom is really an empire on which the sun never sets.

Even Wang Ze, who has always been very sensible, wanted to coax the stinky fart: "In my territory, the sun never sets!" ”

After having a human beginning, officials and people from all over the Xia Kingdom, and even the Taoist priests of Haotian Daomen participated in this activity.

In the past, when Wang Ze had just ascended the throne and claimed the king's system, some officials asked Wang Ze to be the emperor in the name of orthodoxy.

It's just that at that time, Wang Ze felt that the strength of the Xia State was not strong, and once he was called emperor to the outside world, it would inevitably attract greater foreign enemies, so Wang Ze had been waiting for the Turks to be called emperor after defeating the Turks.

Faced with tens of thousands of copies of the table every day, Wang Ze finally announced that he was the emperor.

Knowing that Wang Ze was going to be called emperor, the major vassal states in the West sent envoys one after another, most of whom were the sons of the princes who had been divided, of course, some princes had passed away over the years, and the new lord who inherited their titles simply came to Hajj Wang Ze himself, and also had a relationship with His Majesty the Great Emperor by the way.

Now there are no small countries in the whole East, and there are only a dozen or so small indigenous countries left on the island of Java in the South Seas, but they are still fighting all day long under the instigation of Xia Guo, and Xia Guo is waiting for a good opportunity to swallow them in one bite, and there is no intention of inviting them to watch the ceremony.

In the end, in addition to the Xia State's own vassal foreign countries, the envoys of other countries were actually only envoys from one country in the Sui Empire, which made the officials of the Xia State extremely proud but also had some slight embarrassment.

The matter of claiming the title of emperor is even more cumbersome than when Wang Ze was called king, but after so many decades of development, the Xia Kingdom finally has more talents cultivated by itself, so although the etiquette is cumbersome, it is also orderly, and everything is to highlight the majesty of Wang Ze and the might of the Xia army.

After sacrificing to the heavens and the earth, and worshiping the ancestors of the past dynasties, Wang Ze officially ascended the throne as the emperor, with Cheng Xueyan as the queen, Zhu Qingqing and Pei Xiu as the concubines, and only Wang Feng and Wang Xuan among the children obtained the title of princess, and the other princes did not have any titles, and Wang Ze needed to let them go and win it by military merit.

Wang Yong, who was already over eighty years old, was named the emperor, and Gongxi Wenqi became the queen mother, and then Wang Ze took the civil and military officials to the Zhenhai Haotian Temple to worship Haotian God and the sages and national heroes of the past dynasties.

On the first day, he was called the emperor, the second day was to worship the temple, and the third day was a long-prepared military parade, which was attended not only by the army that performed well in the battle against the Turks and the Sui Empire, but also by the latest artillery units and pure musket units of the Xia Kingdom.

Pei Ju, an envoy of the Sui Empire, even found that the barrels of these cannons were longer than those in the Liaodong War, and there were already large and small, small artillery only needed one war horse to pull, and larger artillery needed four horses even on such a gentle road.

The musket unit also underwent many changes, these muskets looked longer, and even a one-and-a-half-foot-long bayonet was installed in the front of the gun, which was no worse than the short spears equipped by the Sui army, and already had the dual advantages of long-range and close combat.

The mighty military parade made the people of Xia particularly excited, they waved the garlands in their hands, and even the petals of flowers specially transported from the South Seas were thrown at the Xia soldiers, and the climax of this celebration was the army led by the two brothers Wang Dong and Wang Rui who suddenly returned from Persia.