"Handwritten by the King of Qi, Shi Jinxuan, the governor of Qi, was promoted to the imperial history of the left capital of the capital, and Xia Yunyi, the former head of the household department of Qi, concurrently served as the governor of Qi."

"Kim Hyun will leave for Beijing on the same day, and there must be no mistakes......"

On the last day of August, in the already bustling city of Xijing, when Kim Hyun and Ha Yoon-yi saw this handwritten note written in rat hair, their first reaction was......

"Something's wrong."

Kim Hyun put away the note, his face grim.

He knew very well that His Royal Highness the King of Qi would not call him back to Beijing for no reason, since he was called now, it must be a big event, and it was still a big event of the Yanshan faction.

Combined with the news that the King of Qi said that he would be a vassal in the twenty-third year of the Apocalypse, Jin Xuan probably guessed that he was appointed to divide the Yanshan faction when he went back this time.

"Yan Yinshao of the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy Department is estimated to be transferred away."

Jin Xuan opened his mouth to Xia Yunyi, and when he said this, Xia Yunyi immediately understood what he meant.

In this regard, he has mixed feelings.

The good news is that they have built the Qi State very well, and the King of Qi is finally going to be a vassal to affirm their achievements.

The worry is that if the king of Qi wants to become a vassal, he will have to make a certain compromise with the Yanshan faction, and if he is not careful, the Ming Dynasty may encounter civil strife and the lives of the people will be ruined.

It's just that although he is worried, he can't show it because it will distract Kim Hyun.

Therefore, in the face of Kim Hyun's words, he decisively shook his head:

"The affairs of the Qi State are entrusted to me, although I am not good at military strategy, but the Qi State has Yang Bingwen's general army, if it is just governance, I can protect the Qi State without worry."

Xia Yunyi is not joking, although he is not from the Yanshan faction, he is also a self-taught student through Enke, and he is the best ten county orders in the Ming Dynasty in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth years of the Apocalypse.

He may not be good at fighting, but it is more than enough for him to coordinate resources and govern the Qi State.

For him, Jin Xuan was also very relieved, and he also knew that the situation on Daming's side was urgent, and he had to go back immediately.

Therefore, he opened his mouth to the official at the door and asked him to go to his house to help pack his luggage.

Seeing this, Xia Yunyi sighed: "Don't you go home and spend more time with your wife and son?" ”

"I'm just going to Daming to be an official, and it's not like I'm going to never return, I have time at night, and at the moment I mainly want to talk to you about Qi Guo."

Kim Hyun was amused in bitterness, and reluctantly smiled: "Let's go, let's go out and talk"

Seeing his request, Xia Yunyi did not refuse, and walked out of the Changshi Yamen of the Qi Palace with him.

After the two walked out of the Changshi Yamen with the Jiangnan style of the Ming Dynasty, they came to the streets of Qi State.

Although this place is the eastern city and basically belongs to the office area of each yamen, there are still many people coming and going on the street.

Their lives can be seen in their bodies.

At present, even in the Ming Dynasty, except for the Qinling Mountains and the provinces south of the Yangtze River, it is difficult to see rich peasants in other provinces, and the people in the northwest are even more tormented by the drought.

But here, even the peasants who have just returned from the fields driving ox carts can be said to have big shoulders and round waists, and they are more than five feet of cement piers.

There are not a few people of his size, and all this is not only because there is enough food to eat, but also because of the abundance of meat.

In the current Qi country, because mutton and pork are still luxuries, the people can only eat fish, passenger pigeon meat, and bison.

With the influx of a large number of immigrants, Qi has restored the economic order of a normal country, no longer relying on food stamps, meat stamps and other stamps for exchange, but has entered the monetary era.

As a vassal state that could open a government and had the right to mint money, Qi could print its own currency.

Daming Tongbao's banknotes have been issued in April, and the people's acceptance is relatively high, and the National Bank of Qi also accepts paper money in exchange for gold and silver, so the people of Qi have no resistance.

Ten, twenty, thirty, and one hundred are the main banknote denominations of Qi, and one penny is still used to circulate and use the Apocalypse Tongbao.

Jin Xuan and Xia Yunyi asked about today's food prices at the vegetable market near the official mansion, and they were basically the same as before.

Bison meat is three pennies a catty, a passenger pigeon is a penny, marine fish is a penny a catty, rice and wheat are four pennies a catty, and vegetables are cheaper, basically two to three catties a penny.

The price of staple food in Qi is relatively high, so it forces the people to eat meat.

In Daming, the beef has risen to almost 25 Wen, here it is three Wen, three Wen a pound of sea fish, here is one Wen.

With such prices, it is no wonder that the people of Qi will support various policies of Qi State.

If you don't support it, it will be troublesome if you are driven away.

"Food, clothing, shelter and transportation, in addition to food, there is still some stretch, and other living needs can be met."

The two climbed the Qiwang Pavilion, the tallest building in the city, and stood on the attic of more than 30 zhang high, they looked around the Xijing City, and Jin Xuan couldn't help but sigh at his achievements in the past nine years.

"When you go back to Daming this time, you can also go to the industrial zone to see if we still need to improve."

Xia Yunyi explained to Kim Hyun, and Kim Hyun naturally nodded without thinking.

Obviously, their minds have been placed on the Qi State, and the once verbal "national dynasty" has also become the "Ming Dynasty".

It's no wonder that they are thinking differently, in fact, the current Qi country is still not as prosperous as Liangjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou in the Ming Dynasty, but for them, prosperity is not what they want.

What they want is a clean officialdom, an officialdom that only does things and is not emotional.

This officialdom was given to them by Qi State, because most of the officials who came here were officials who were passionate and trying to make a career.

Although their taels, although there is no change in the Qi country, due to the cheap prices, the fifteen taels of the taels, in terms of purchasing power, is more effective than the fifty taels of the Ming Dynasty.

Besides, there is no sophistication in the Ming officialdom here, everyone only needs to be on duty at the end of the shift, and it is enough to do their own things in the middle.

"Emperor Ming Qi National Law" has regulations, after the time is pointed, the chief official arranges the work, as long as the work at hand is completed, other things have nothing to do with you.

Others can't help you, and you can't help others, and as for temporary additional work, it's a matter of repeated orders and strict prohibitions.

In the area of official work, Qi learned from the experience of the Qin Dynasty.

The work schedule is as much as it is, and everyone's share is about the same, and they will leave work at the end of the day.

If you can't finish the work on duty, you need to take it home and deal with it, in short, you must finish all the work before the next day.

As for the number of jobs, they are also distributed on average, and there is no over-issuance, deliberately embarrassing people, and making people go home to work overtime.

In addition, the biggest change in the officialdom of Qi State is that only the two rites of Zuo Yi and Ji Shou are retained.

It is used on weekdays, and it is only used when the Zhengdan Dynasty and the second day of February are sacrificed to heaven and earth, and kneeling is strictly prohibited on weekdays.

It can be said that the officialdom of Qi State is a lot less red tape, and it is mainly based on doing things.

If things are not done well, it is useless to pat the beard and horse, because the merits of the officials have to be spot-checked from the content of the documents handled on weekdays and check the completion status, and the chief official has no power to promote anyone.

This kind of officialdom is very suitable for government officials who have received a new type of education.

The atmosphere of officialdom is so open, let alone the atmosphere of the people.

Kneeling is resolutely not allowed, it is a daily etiquette, and there is no such thing as a road guide, and it is enough to go out with a household registration book.

The various rules of dressing were also abolished, and the people could wear whatever they wanted, except for the armor and official uniforms, which were still forbidden and could not be worn, and the people could almost wear the clothes they wanted.

The open atmosphere has made the commercial development of Qi very rapid.

With the arrival of immigrants there are also many home-based handicraft workshops, as well as handicraft workshops established by individuals.

It has only been two years since Xu Xiake and their return to Daming, but the economy of Qi has been as prosperous as Chengdu, the "Yizhou" in "Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangguangyi".

"The population in the city is now 300,000, and now that I think about it, the scene of Xijing's empty alley seems to be still vivid, but now it ......"

Xia Yunyi couldn't help but sigh at the development of Qi State, and at the same time, he also felt a sense of pride in his heart.

"There are still more than 600,000 people in Qi who have yet to be relocated this year, and at the current rate, I am afraid it will take another year and a half." Hearing this, Kim Hyun also spoke:

"If I go back this time, if we can put an end to the matter, then relocate some more people, and in the twenty-third year of the Apocalypse, it shouldn't be a problem to let the population of Qi reach more than two million."

"The main thing is that I'm worried about what will happen after His Highness takes office." Xia Yunyi also nodded and added:

"At present, there are more than 820,000 native people and 1,274,000 nationals in the country."

"What I'm worried about now is that after you leave, if the local people fight again, it will be a little difficult to deal with."

"In the past year, 70,000 or 80,000 people have died in civil fighting, and they have taken the iron tools issued by the government and started to fight among themselves, although this can lead to a sharp decline in their population, but we will also lack labor on the railway from east to west."

"The Yingzhou labor camp workers have now built the railway to Chengshan Prefecture, but it is still 2,000 miles away from Chengshan County."

"It's just that this distance is basically hills and hills, and a lot of people have died."

Xia Yunyi was worried, afraid that the number of labor reformers would not be enough to build the railway.

The speed of railway advancement in Qi is very fast, as long as there are enough rails, 700,000 labor reformers plus some machines that will be transformed in the subsequent construction of the railway, it is not a problem to lay 1,000 miles a year.

The cost of doing so is somewhat high, and the death and injury rate of labor campers has greatly increased.

"Don't worry about the labor reformers, Your Highness won't blame you, you just need to hurry up and build the railway to Chengshan County in two years."

Jin Xuan relieved Xia Yunyi and explained the benefits of the railway being built to Chengshan County.

"As long as the railroad is built to Chengshan County, the supplies of the Western Capital City can pass through the Chengshui (Missouri River) in Chengshan County all the way south, reach the Qishui (Mississippi River), and enter the Atlantic Ocean."

"At that time, we can also immigrate to the three provinces on the east coast and the three provinces in Murica in South Asia."

"But ......" Xia Yunyi frowned: "But right now, the Francois are still entrenched in the middle, even if they can emigrate, once they use the tractor and steam engine, they will still be aware of it, which is against the will of His Highness." ”

"Hmm...... Indeed it is. Kim Hyun nodded:

"At the moment the war in Europa is raging, and I have heard that a popular revolt broke out in London, the capital of Dark Elia (England), and that an earl was beheaded, and the king of Dark Elia ordered the suppression of the riots of the people."

"Although the riots are being suppressed now, I always feel that this is just the beginning of the civil unrest in the country."

"Coupled with the fact that the Francois in Europa was besieged by Francia (France) and other countries and retreated, I estimate that some of their 5,000 troops in the colony will be withdrawn."

"If their forces are withdrawn and leave, then you must inform me in time, and I will ask His Highness to regain the lost territory."

Kim Hyun solemnly explained the matter about the Spanish colony, and Xia Yunyi naturally responded to this, and he had no reason to refuse.

Seeing that he should go, Kim Hyun also looked at Xijing City at dusk.

As dusk appeared, there was also a faint smoke on the head of the door to door in Xijing City, and the sight greatly satisfied Kim Hyun's spirit.

After a while, he and Xia Yunyi went down to the Qi Wang Pavilion, and it seemed that they had already explained everything that should be explained.

That night, Jin Xuan also went home and told his wife that he wanted to return to Daming, and he also wanted to take his mother to Qi to live permanently.

As for his younger brother Jin Qi, he is already the chief soldier of Shanxi now, if Jin Qi is unwilling, he has no way to force Jin Qi to come to Qi State.

His wife comforted Kim Hyun loudly, and with the support of his family, he also boarded the steamship back to Daming on the second day.

It's just that on the third day after he set off, the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy, who was even farther away, also received a handwritten letter from the King of Qi from the Ming Dynasty.

"Passing on the handwriting of the King of Qi, Yan Yingyuan, the prefect of South Kunlun, was promoted to the supervision envoy of South Kunlun, Wang Yi of Guangping Zhixian County was promoted to the prefect of East Kunlun, and Chen Zizhuang of Kunlun Zhixian County was promoted to the prefect of South Kunlun."

"Wu Aheng, the former supervisor of South Kunlun, was promoted to the rank of Soldier and Horse Division, and Yan Yinshao, the former prefect of East Kunlun, was promoted to the right of the Imperial History ......of the Imperial Palace, and he set off on the same day, and there must be no mistakes."

In the Yamen of the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy of Kunlun County, when Wu Aheng got this handwritten letter and saw its contents, he immediately knew that something was wrong in China.

Therefore, he couldn't help but subconsciously look at Yan Yingyuan next to him, and Yan Yingyuan at this moment also frowned, sensing the seriousness of the matter.

Seeing Wu Aheng turn his head to look at him, Yan Yingyuan immediately said:

"Rest assured, although the lower officials are not talented, it is not a problem to protect the interests of the imperial court in Levia."

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"I'm not worried about this ......" Hearing Yan Yingyuan's words, Wu Aheng smiled helplessly:

"At present, there are more than 160,000 Han people, 320,000 young people, more than 4 million mu of cultivated land, more than 2 million labor reform workers, and more than 30,000 soldiers."

"With this kind of strength, I don't need to worry, only the Levian domains can threaten the Yamen, but with rifles in hand, even if the feudal domains unite can't fight the Yamen."

"What I'm worried about is that if the King of Qi is a vassal domain, can this land of Southern Kunlun still be retained? Will the imperial court be like Jiaozhi back then, and once a disaster occurs here, it will be directly abandoned. ”

Wu Aheng's worries were not for no reason, after all, the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy was far away from the Ming Dynasty, and the most important thing was that the number of Han people was not large.

At present, within the Southern Kunlun Supervision Department, excluding the labor campers, there are 320,000 young people among the 480,000 people, and most of them are from Yingzhou.

Although those Yingzhou men are short and polite, Wu Aheng always feels that this group of "Japanese people" is not good at stubble.

If they go down in the future, it happens that the rulers of the Ming Dynasty are not very thirsty for land, then Nankunlun will be a little embarrassed.

Although the situation in Jiaozhi during the Xuande period is different from the current situation in Southern Kunlun, the monarch is unconscious after the can't be maintained.

It's just that Wu Aheng can only think about this kind of thing in his heart, but he never dares to say it.

His identity is already embarrassing, he is the uncle of Concubine Tian of the Qi Palace, and it just so happens that Tian Xiuying gave birth to three more county kings, so the interests of him and the Qi Palace's Mansion are naturally more bound.

If he says something rebellious at this time, it is very likely that someone with a heart will catch him.

Thinking of this, Wu Aheng could only finally explain to Yan Yingyuan:

"According to His Highness's wishes, even if the Qi Kingdom and Fur Ji go to war, we should not interrupt the trade, and we will still do the same for the trade of livestock."

"In addition, after I return to Beijing this time, I will try to see if I can get His Highness to let go of the right to use the steamship west of the old port."

"If the steamship can be used in South Kunlun, then the millions of stone grain produced in South Kunlun every year can also be transported to Luchuan and sold to China by rail."

Wu Aheng said a few things about the Southern Kunlun Supervision Mission, and Yan Yingyuan also had something to say about this:

"The inspector, the subordinate officials think that the most critical thing at the moment is the situation in Europa."

"Francois can't hold on anymore, the dynasty can first use this as a threat to the other party to return the territory of Qi, and then provide funding to let Europa continue to fight."

Yan Yingyuan was not only busy with government affairs, but also liked to read all kinds of military books written by King Qi in Southern Kunlun, so he could probably understand King Qi's attitude towards Europe after he knew the situation in Europe.

The place had to remain a small state, and once Spain and the Holy Roman Empire fell, the few nations that had eaten away at their corpses would rise rapidly.

Although it is only a skin moss problem for Da Ming, if this skin moss problem can be eliminated in advance, it will naturally be better.

Therefore, what the Ming should do now is to negotiate with Spain, and then recover the lost territory in the Americas from him, and at the same time support him to keep the war deadlocked.

This war of religion, as long as Spain and the Holy Roman Empire do not lose, there will be a second war of religion in the future, until one side is completely victorious.

"I will tell His Highness about this matter, but it is debatable whether His Highness still has the heart to pay attention to the situation in Europa at the moment."

Wu Aheng chose to agree to Yan Yingyuan's words, but he didn't think that Zhu Youzhen still had the heart to care about the situation in Europa.

At present, compared with the situation in Europa, the situation in Daming is more of a headache.

"How much gold and silver are stored in the treasury?"

Since Wu Aheng is leaving, he naturally has to take away the gold and silver of the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy and go back to pay the errand, after all, the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy has not paid taxes to Daming since it existed.

Now that he, the first Inspector, is going to return to Beijing, he naturally has to bring enough gold and silver as merit.

"The treasury has 720,000 taels of gold, more than 6,370,000 taels of silver, and 300,000 catties of copper ingots."

Yan Yingyuan truthfully explained the amount of gold and silver in the treasury of the Supervision Division, and Wu Aheng, who heard the words, also spoke:

"I have to take all the gold and copper ingots, and I will only take five million taels of silver, and leave the rest for you."

"Although Nankunlun is on the right track at the moment, there are still many problems that have not been solved, especially the problem of immigration."

"When I go back this time, I can just recruit some immigrants, if there are millions of immigrants in South Kunlun, then this place will be stable."

As he spoke, Wu Aheng sighed, but remembered the matter of the Levian domains.

"I just returned from the front line this time, and I haven't learned about the affairs of the feudal clans yet, so tell me what has changed in them."

"Yes......" Yan Yingyuan sorted out his thoughts for a while, and then said:

"At present, the Levian Powerful Domains are still sorted in the order of the Eight Kingdoms of Tang, Huai, Ji, Zheng, Rui, Gui, Yi, and Min."

"More than 60,000 people have immigrated to the Tang State at present, and at the end of last year, the Tang King Zhu Qiqi arrived in the Tang Kingdom, bringing a lot of craftsmen, and the Tang Kingdom also has hundreds of thousands of labor reformers, and the specific number is not clear."

"In addition, their annual income should not be less than 300,000 taels, because they bought more than 600,000 stones of grain last year."

"In terms of cultivated land, they played 740,000 acres of land, and the soldiers and horses were still more than 15,000 people in the five battalions."

"Tang Shizi Zhu Yujian is still in the capital at the moment, but the situation in the country and dynasty is like this, I'm afraid he will find a way to get out."

"As for the other seven countries except the Tang Kingdom, those with more acres of land are only more than 600,000 mu, and those with widows are more than 200,000 mu."

"There are only four battalions of soldiers and horses, and there are only two battalions of widows."

"Those who have a lot of income are only more than 200,000 taels, and those who are widowed are 1120,000 taels."

"The eight countries join forces, and the annual income is probably about 1.3 million taels, with a total of 26 battalions of soldiers and horses, and nearly 80,000 people."

"Its acres of land totaled more than 3.76 million mu, with an output of more than 5 million stones, and more than 340,000 immigrants, and the number of labor reformers is unknown, I am afraid that it is not less than 4 million."

The strength of the eight feudal domains of Levia was shaken out by Yan Yingyuan in a few words, and I have to say that with such national strength, it can directly become a regional power even if it is thrown into the European battlefield.

However, the biggest piece of good news for the Southern Kunlun Inspectorate was that they were located along the coast of Leviia, and it was very difficult to integrate their forces.

"The development of the Eight Domains has been somewhat rapid, mainly because of the cheap gold and silver mines."

Wu Aheng knew very well why the Eight Domains developed so quickly, to put it bluntly, the gold and silver they produced were enough for immigrants, and they had the natural advantage of minerals compared to the small Western feudal domains that could only trade grain and collect taxes from the imperial store.

However, the shortcomings of the Eight Feudatories are also obvious, that is, they all coincidentally lack food.

Due to the shortage of food, they could only rely on the food of the Southern Kunlun Supervision Department and the Xiaoxiyang Supervision Mission to maintain the domestic situation, otherwise they would not be able to support so many labor reform workers.

"You will compile these into a book, and I will bring them back to Your Highness in three days."

"Yes!"

Wu Aheng finally explained, and then sent Yan Yingyuan off.

As he explained, after sending carrier pigeons to Yan Yinshao of East Kunlun Mansion, Wu Aheng left the place where he had lived for nearly ten years by boat three days later.

The replacement of many supervision envoys naturally made the local feudal clans realize that something was wrong.

They don't have an organization like Jinyiwei, but they also have their own intelligence sources, so during this time, countless carrier pigeons kept coming and going between Daming and other places.

Not only the Ming Dynasty is concerned about this turmoil, but also the other feudal domains.

They want to know what kind of compromise Zhu Youzhen, who has always been tough, will make in the face of this turmoil......