A year later, in the twenty-second year of Wu'an, the king of Qin, Su Chen'an, turned 18, and his wedding to the eldest princess of Russia, Sophia, was held in Jiangning, Beijing.

In order to show the importance of this marriage, the Russian regent Maria Miloslavskaya personally led the delegation to Jiangning, as the joint mother of the Russian king and the eldest princess Sophia, Sophia couldn't help but burst into tears when she saw her, regardless of the eyes of the people around her, hugged her and told her about her thoughts.

Although it was only the wedding of the King of Qin, and the specifications were not as luxurious as those of the crown prince, it was still enough to shock these poor relatives from Taixi, and the Russians were greedy to look at the splendid palace and the expensive utensils used in the wedding, and they had never seen a more luxurious pomp in Europe.

On the second day after the wedding, Su Yan ordered that Su Chen'an, the king of Qin, be divided into Persia, and the land under the jurisdiction of the Persian capital was used as the fief of Su Chen'an, the king of Qin.

Su Yan's holy decree shocked the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and the courtiers all peeked into the leopard from the middle tube and saw the intention behind the emperor's move, but they did not agree with the emperor's will and wrote to express their opposition.

What they oppose is to seal the prince outside, and the prince from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, all of which cannot escape the haze of the prince's rebellion, the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the first Han Dynasty, the rebellion of the Eight Kings in the Jin Dynasty, and the battle of King Yan in the Ming Dynasty, all of which are rebellions caused by the prince's military power.

The courtiers believed that the prince could indeed consolidate his rule over the region, but it was a threat to make the prince in charge, and once the prince was ambitious and rebelled, the court had to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to fight it.

Regarding the opposition of the courtiers, Su Yan told them at the court meeting the next day that it was inevitable for the prince to seal him outside, and the system of the capital protectorate was full of instability, and it could continue to be maintained when the national power was strong, but once the central government was weakened and had no time to take care of Taixi, the capital protectorate would be easily overthrown like rootless duckweed.

The prince could solve this problem by making the prince a foreign official, allowing the prince to guard the central town for generations and maintain the rule of the imperial court in Taixi, and the rebellion that the courtiers feared was not a big problem in his opinion.

The princes' fiefdoms were thousands of miles away, and the road to Han was far away, and even a rebellion would not pose a threat to the central government, and the Anxi border army and several other vassal kings were enough to put it down.

Su Yan knew very well in his heart that the huge empire he had established could not maintain the current vast territory for a long time, and with the help of the system, the territory of Taixi during his reign could still be peaceful, but once he died, the local area lost the constraints of the system, and it was very likely that a rebellion would break out, leading to the independence of the territory west of Anxi.

Wanting to assimilate the people of the local area, this is a very long-term thing, although Su Yan is now trying to assimilate the people of the conquered areas, but if he wants to completely sinicize them and give them a sense of belonging to Great Xia, it will not be effective until at least two or three generations later.

He divided the kings in order to further consolidate his rule over the region until then, and the vassal kings were certainly more concerned with the governance of their fiefdoms than the Imperial Protectorate.

However, in order to reduce the probability of rebellion of the vassal king, Su Yan also had to add a little constraint, so Su Yan followed the policy of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and set up a standing army of three standards for the vassal king, restricting the possession of an artillery battalion, and the vassal king also served as the deputy protector of the capital, participating in the decision-making of the military and political affairs of the capital protectorate.

However, the vassal king could only mobilize the army of the prefecture in time of war, with the permission of the Metropolitan Protector, otherwise he could only mobilize the standing army directly under him, and a part of the treasury of the Metropolitan Protectorate was to be used every year as the salary of the army directly under the feudal king.

In order to prevent the army directly under the vassal king from launching a mutiny to seize the power of the Dadu Protector, and the latter was unable to resist, the Dadu Protector also set up a brigade of soldiers and horses as a direct subordinate - in addition to the soldiers and horses directly under this brigade, each of the Metropolitan Protectorate had three brigades under its jurisdiction, which were scattered and stationed in various cities and key roads on weekdays, and the war was assembled and mobilized.

Su Yan's policies ensured that the vassal king could only have more power during the outbreak of war, of course, this was an ideal situation, and it was difficult for him to guarantee whether the specific implementation could have this effect, after all, every policy was implemented well at the beginning

It will change after many years......

After Su Yan explained the relationship between the Imperial Protectorate and the vassal king to the courtiers, although the courtiers were still not very worried about the vassal king's external seal, they still reluctantly calmed down and no longer had any objections.

On the other hand, the imperial court ordered the formation of the Qin King's Guard, this army selected elite soldiers from the various armies, and those who had families also needed to move to Persia together, after more than two months of formation, the three targets were finally full, and the King of Qin then took his new wife, and embarked on the road to the fiefdom under the reluctant eyes of the emperor, empress and a group of relatives.

Looking at the car of King Qin who was driving in the distance, Su Yan had mixed feelings in his heart, he knew very well in his heart that Persia was a long way to get here, and the second son was going to go, I am afraid that he would never come back in this life, and this was also the last time he and the second son met.

Mu Tianbo's prestige in Persia is quite high, and he is also needed to stabilize the hearts of the people in Persia, and his two sons did not go together, the eldest son Mu Zhongxian was transferred to the military department as a squire, and the second son Mu Zhongliang was transferred to the governor's palace.

In addition, Fu Xinghua's positions such as the general of the expedition to the west and the protector of the Xihai capital were also relieved, and it happened that Zhang Mingzhen, the prince of Dingguo, was slightly ill, and asked Su Yan for permission to resign and recuperate, and Su Yan transferred Fu Xinghua to the right governor of the governor's mansion to temporarily replace Zhang Mingzhen.

Two years later, in the twenty-fourth year of Wu'an, after decades of war, the Tokugawa shogunate finally decided the victory from the civil war, defeated the army of the Sendai domain, and reunited Toei, but it was clear that Bactria would not give them a chance to regain their national strength.

In the following year, the Tokugawa shogunate did not respect the kingdom and did not pay tribute to the Tokugawa shogunate, and personally led the troops to march eastward in three ways, all the way to the country, although the shogunate army of the four countries resisted stubbornly, but under the fierce offensive of the Xia army, it only lasted but fell into the hands of the Xia army in March.

In the face of the Great Xia army's crusade, the shogun's several requests for peace were rejected, Su Fu personally led his troops outside Osaka Castle to defeat the shogunate army led by the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, conquered this famous city, and continued to march eastward, besieging Kyoto with the power of great victory, and launching a fierce artillery bombardment on Kyoto Mountain Castle.

In the heavy shelling, several shells hit the imperial palace one after another, and King Lingyuan was unfortunately crushed to death by the falling stones, and the king's death made the defenders feel the same hatred, but they were still unable to resist the fierce attack of the Xia army, and Kyoto fell immediately.

The Second Summer War lasted for five years, and the death of the king only fueled the resistance of the shogunate army, and it was only after the Xia army conquered Edo and captured Tokugawa Tsunayoshi that the shogunate finally surrendered and the war ended.

Subsequently, the Xia Dynasty completely annexed the entire Dongying, and the imperial court abolished the existing political envoys and merged them all into the newly established Dongying political envoys, with Edo as the provincial capital, and Ren Sufu as the first governor of Dongying.

The Second Summer War was the last large-scale war of the Wu'an period, and since then, the Xia Dynasty has entered a period of development and ceased to expand abroad.

In the thirty-fourth year of Wu'an, with the development of science and technology, the world's first steam locomotive finally came out in Jiangning, but because of the limitation of science and technology, this steam locomotive can only be regarded as the first generation of experiments, and it is not mature and cannot be put into use on a large scale.

Although it was only an immature experiment, Su Yan was still happy about it, he looked at the steel beast, and he seemed to be able to vaguely see steam locomotives roaring and galloping on the land of China, carrying goods and passengers from all over the world......

In the thirty-fifth year of Wu'an, Su Yan, the founding monarch of Great Xia, was dying in the Qianqing Palace in the imperial city of Jiangning after his 60th birthday.

Lying on the soft bed, surrounded by Empress Zheng, who had accompanied him for most of his life, as well as his princes, princes and princesses, they looked at the dying emperor with sad eyes, but Su Yan's heart did not have fear because he was about to face death.

"I'm leaving." Su Yan hoarsely said to his queen and children: "You don't have to be sad, birth, old age, sickness and death are normal for people, I only hope that after my death, the country will continue to prosper and the people can live happily

days."

"Father, I promise you, it will be." The prince knelt in front of his couch, his eyes full of tears, and said with an oath.

Su Yan's face barely pulled out a smile, did not speak, his gaze crossed the crowd around him, through the wide open palace gate, and cast into the night sky with bright stars, he recalled the dazed and helpless when he had just crossed into this world, and recalled the joy of conquering Quanzhou Mansion, calling him king and emperor...... So much so that until the end of his life.

At this moment, Su Yan realized that he had completely changed history, the Central Plains land sinking would not happen again, the great powers came to the west, and the tragedy of forcibly opening the country would not happen, and the Great Xia of this world should be able to remain strong without threatening foreign enemies.

Thinking of this, Su Yan's face showed a heartfelt smile, he slowly closed his eyes, feeling the passage of life in his body, as time passed, Su Yan only felt that his body gradually fell into darkness, and at the last moment of his life, he could hear a painful cry that seemed to come from a distant place, and a sad and sharp cry-

"His Majesty the Emperor, the dragon returns to the sky—"

After hearing the howls from the deep palace and the mournful cries of the eunuchs, the civil and military ministers and princes who were waiting outside the Chengtian Gate of the Imperial Palace in the middle of the night heard the wails from the deep palace and the mournful cries of the eunuchs, and they all bowed down to the palace gate, and the cry shook the sky.

The people in Jingshi City also walked out of their homes one after another, kneeling far away outside the Chengtian Gate, kowtowing and crying.

The era of a generation of time-travelers is finally over, and the Xia Dynasty will also usher in a new emperor.

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End of book.

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