Su Yan sat on the dragon chair and thought, the heart of Galdan who was kneeling below was also beating a drum, he looked nervously at the smooth floor in front of him, and he didn't know how the eunuch on duty cleaned it, it was so smooth that it could directly reflect his face.

He could clearly see that his face reflected in the ground was full of worry, not only from himself, but also from the entire Dzungar Ministry.

He didn't know why the emperor suddenly issued an order against him, because of this, he was afraid that the emperor would order him to be beheaded at the noon gate, and the guards and family members who entered Beijing with him would also be beheaded, and the entire Dzungar tribe would be destroyed under the iron hooves of the Khalkha Mongol cavalry.

No matter how young and old he is, he is still a 19-year-old boy after all, and people his age are living a carefree college life, and he has to shoulder the fate of the whole group at a young age.

Just when Galdan was thinking nonsense, the emperor who was high above finally spoke, and his voice was calm and full of majesty, so that Galdan couldn't help but want to put his head on the ground to show his submission:

"Galdan, I am the emperor of Great Xia, and I am also the heavenly khan that all Mongols obey, Mo Nan and Mo Northern Mongolia all kneel at my feet, swearing to fight for me, Mo Western Mongolia is naturally no exception, my army is ready to go, those who surrender live, and those who resist die.

The life and death of the Dzungar tribe is only a matter of one thought for you."

The emperor's words fell into Galdan's ears, and exploded in his mind like a thunderbolt on weekdays, Galdan's body trembled violently, and he hurriedly put his head on the ground again, but because of the excessive force, there was a crisp sound on the ground, he didn't care about the pain in his forehead, his whole face was almost on the ground, and he hurriedly said:

"Your Majesty, Galdan does not dare to resist the royal master, and is willing to surrender to Your Majesty, become Your Majesty's sword, and fight for Your Majesty!"

Su Yan expected his reaction, his expression remained unchanged, and he said indifferently, "Verbal promises are not credible, but I will give you a chance, a chance to prove the loyalty of the Dzungar Ministry."

"I hope Your Majesty will make it clear!"

"Gather the warriors of the Dzungar tribe, conquer the Oirat Mongols, and let the Oirat Mongols who are not subject to the king completely submit to Great Xia, and the day when the Oirat Mongols are pacified is the time when you are the leader of the alliance." The emperor said lightly.

This is undoubtedly a big pie, an ethereal big pie, but I have to admit that the current Galdan has no choice, he can only take this big cake and become the sword of the emperor's western expedition.

In late December of the tenth year of Wu'an, the Dzungar Department was attached to the Xia Dynasty.

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After only a few days in Jingshi, Galdan left Jiangning with his escort and returned to the Dzungar Ministry, as if to show his loyalty, he left his former sister-in-law, his current wife Anu, and his stepson as hostages.

For Galdan's move, Su Yan was a little crying and laughing to be honest, who didn't know that Anu and her children were the wives and children of the former Taiji monk of the Dzungar Ministry, and Galdan's keeping them in Jingshi as hostages was actually more symbolic than practical, even if Su Yan cut down all the hostages, it would have no effect on Galdan......

With the departure of Galdan, the time soon came to the New Year of the eleventh year of Wu'an, and Su Yan also ushered in his fifth child.

That's right, it's the fifth, since the birth of the eldest princess Sunan Jia, three new lives have been born one after another over the years, namely Su Chen'an, the second prince born to Queen Zheng, and Su Huaide, the third prince born to the second princess Su Sirou and Zhang Jieyu.

The name of the prince still follows the rules of the male Chu Ci and the female poetry, which can be regarded as a rule set by Su Yan by chance, and it will continue to be continued in the future.

Zhang Jieyu is a new favorite of Su Yan in recent days, she is the cousin of the biological mother of the eldest princess who was promoted from Jieyu's position to the concubine, that is, the granddaughter of Zhang Sizong, the tax envoy of the tax department, I don't know if Zhang Sizong's genes are good or lucky, his granddaughter and granddaughter have entered the palace to become the emperor's concubine, and even his status has risen with the tide, and he has been named Yixingbo, the emperor's relatives and relatives.

Speaking of the tax department, we have to mention the performance of the tax department over the years.

After the Taxation Department was separated from the Ministry of Household Affairs and became an independent department, it set up tax bureaus at the provincial and prefecture levels under the arrangement of the imperial court to manage the tax inventory and collection of local taxes.

The tax police corps, which was launched along with the tax department, has also been expanded, and the local tax police corps still retains the distinction between regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, the regular soldiers are veterans who retired from the military reform in the fifth year of Wu'an, they are equipped with dog-lock flintlock pistols that have been eliminated from the army, and the auxiliary soldiers are locally recruited youths, equipped with uniforms and waist knives.

Although the Xia army did not generally promote the uniform as a standard military uniform, in order to distinguish the auxiliary soldiers of the tax police corps from other branches of the military, they wore a large tax written on the front of the uniform, and a large auxiliary on the back.

In these years, the tax department has continuously collected a large number of taxes for the imperial court, and they are notorious, and all businessmen who are targeted by the tax department will be severely interrogated until they are found to have evidence of tax evasion, so in order to avoid trouble, many businessmen have taken the initiative to bribe local tax officials before the tax department comes to the door, and many officials in the tax department system have made a lot of money.

Zhang Sizong also realized this, in order to avoid the affairs of the tax department will affect his granddaughters in the palace, he took the initiative to play to the court, requesting that an additional department with supervision responsibilities be added to the tax department, and his performance was praised by the emperor, and the emperor immediately granted his request, and the next order was to add a supervision department within the tax department.

Those who join the Inspection Division are first subjected to strict vetting and testing, and finally those with excellent ability and integrity are allowed to join, and after the establishment of the Supervision Division, some of the corruption in the Taxation Department has been severely damaged.

In addition to supervising the officialdom in the province, the local inspectors also had the duty to supervise the taxation department.

In general, everything is moving in a good direction.

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In the eleventh year of Wu'an, the Xia army was still in full swing in North Korea.

Korean laborers and craftsmen worked overtime day after day in various shipyards to build large ships capable of transporting soldiers across the Korean Strait and landing on the Japanese mainland, and in order to prevent Japanese sailors from breaking into the shore to sabotage, the Xia army built a fort every few miles on the shore and observed the situation in the Korean Strait day and night.

This is not that the Xia army is too nervous, but it is a lesson from the past - I don't know whether to say that the Korean navy is really unreliable, or the Japanese navy is bold, and there are actually several Japanese ships that successfully passed through the interception of the Korean navy, landed in the south of Shangqing Province, and killed dozens of Korean civilians, although they were quickly annihilated by the patrolling Xia cavalry, but it still cast a shadow on the hearts of the locals.

Since then, the Xia army began to build forts on the shore that set the two functions of beacon tower and fort in one to prevent possible Japanese raids, after all, for local officials, the slaughter of civilians after the Japanese army landed is a trivial matter, if it destroys the plan to conquer Japan, it will be a bad dish.

In the Korean Strait and the Sea of Japan, battles between the naval armies of Xia and North Korea and the Japanese naval forces also occurred from time to time, and the naval divisions of the Xia army showed their terrible strength in successive naval battles, sinking almost 200 Japanese warships in front and back, shocking Japan.

And the performance of the North Korean sailors was very poor, and they had dealings with the Japanese army, and in the eyes of the generals of the Xia army, they were simply two rookies pecking each other.

However, although the Korean sailors were a little dish-oriented, they still managed to drag most of the Japanese warships, allowing the Xia army to exert their might.

After the successive naval battles, several naval generals who were called famous generals in North Korea also emerged in the Korean navy, one of whom was a descendant of the famous Korean general Yi Sunsin, who naturally became the object of praise by the Korean monarchs and ministers, and in order to boost the morale of the army, he called him the reincarnation of Yi Sunsin.

The praise in Korea was scoffed at by the Xia army's top brass, but they did not dampen the enthusiasm of the Koreans, seeing that the Japanese navy had suffered many losses and hundreds of large ships had been built along the coast of Korea, Su Fu finally gave the order and decided to launch the first exploratory attack on the Japanese island of Kyushu.

On the eighth day of February in the eleventh year of Wu'an, Xia Jun was fourth

The 1st and 2nd Infantry Brigades of the town were the vanguard, and with more than 400 troop carriers, they first arrived at Tsushima Island under the cover of the Beiyang Naval Division and the Korean Naval Division, and then conquered Iki Island.

The kamikaze that the Tokugawa shogunate wanted to see did not appear, and February was never a day of typhoons, and the Xia army easily crossed the Korean Strait and entered the waters off the coast of Japan.

On the 10th day of the first month, the Xia army attacked the coastal islands of Chikuzen and Hizen, and launched a fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese troops on the shore who had received the news and assembled.

Of course, the Japanese army was not defeated by this, and after retreating inland, they began to gather their troops, hoping to wait for the Xia army to land and penetrate inland, and then rely on their local familiarity to encircle and annihilate the Xia army.

The first to engage the Natsu army was the lord of the Fukuoka domain, Mitsuyuki Kuroten, who had hated the Natsu since the bombardment of Fukuoka by the Natsuka army last year, and now he is often unable to communicate deeply with women, thanks to the sudden shelling.

On February 11, the 2nd Brigade of the Xia Army landed in the port of Nanozu in Fukuoka, and under the cover of the battleship artillery, the Japanese did not dare to take the lead at all, and they lay in ambush behind the walls of Fukuoka Mountain Castle in the distance, and watched nervously as the Xia army left the warship and lined up on the shore.

The Xia army did not rush deep inland, the inhabitants of Nanotsu had almost fled during the shelling last year, and when they heard the news of the Xia army's attack, the rest of the people also fled inland, so that Nanotsu was empty, and the first soldiers who landed were able to transform Nanotsu into a landing base.

They put down their rifles, picked up their axes, cut down all the trees around them, and quickly erected a simple wooden fence on the periphery of Nanotsu to guard against wild beasts and Japanese attacks.