The news of Zheng Shou's bad deeds shook the government and the opposition, no one else was at home, and the little guy and coachman who went with him were gone, and outside the gate of the mansion were the winged dragon captain in brocade clothes and the soldiers of the Guards Division patrolling back and forth with a fire gun with a bayonet on their backs.

Only the Imperial History and Finance Department officials entered and exited, and it seemed as if they had to show a special card to be released.

Fortunately, people's eyes are gradually attracted by the big news of the separation of the two provinces, and a bad cabinet minister and hundreds of new positions are not more attractive to people than hundreds of new positions.

News was circulating in the streets and alleys, and there were alternate officials who had heard the news, and they were busy finding the best position for themselves.

The biggest news in Shangjing were the Imperial News, which was published a few days later by the Postal Department of the Ministry of Communications, and the Shangjing Bao, which was published by the Guide Prefecture, two of the most important newspapers officially issued by Li Dan after the Shaanxi and Gansu News was published.

The former is delivered to the whole country, and of course the farthest Kunming, Yunnan, will not be seen until twenty days later.

The content includes the speeches and attitudes of the emperor's political affairs, the cabinet and various ministries, the news of neighboring countries, as well as the promulgation and interpretation of new policies and laws, etc., and the readers are mostly officials and generals and businessmen and gentry who are concerned about the military and government.

The latter's distribution scope covers the whole Zhili, including the customs of the people of Shangjing, government measures, prices and circulation, the works of scholars, stories, famous store introductions and advertisements, etc., which is more down-to-earth and loved by the whole class.

For the sake of the newspaper's distribution, Liu Cunwu, a secretary of the Ministry of Communications, also led a special team to visit Xi'an to learn from experience, and the two newspapers each left five preparatory personnel to study at the Shaanxi and Gansu News Newspaper for three months.

Created by Imperial News

After publication, it is set as a weekly newspaper, and special issues are published irregularly.

As a result, the first issue of the first issue published the full text of the decree on the division of the two provinces, as well as interviews with the cabinet and various ministries and policy interpretations, and 60% of the 10,000 copies printed that were expected to be sold in Shangjing were quickly sold out.

A month later, its first special issue also printed an unprecedented 67,000 copies for the news of the interrogation of the Zodiac Young Heavenly Master Bao Rui, the revelation of Zheng Shou's case, and the deposition of King Teng, who and his immediate children were arrested and sent to Beijing!

Imperial News immediately announced the opening of three branches in Nanjing, Xi'an, and Beiping, and that Shangjing Daily would be one of its branches.

Each week, the Imperial News is printed and sold in four editions by the head office, and each branch can print a local newspaper to accompany the sale.

As a result, the Shaanxi and Gansu News, the newly founded Jiangnan Daily, the Northern News, and the Shangjing Daily jointly pushed the sales of the Imperial News to a new peak of 430,000 copies on the New Year of the 13th year of Jingwu, making it the "No. 1 newspaper in the world" without any suspense.

Embassies and consulates of various countries are also busy ordering newspapers, so that their monarchs and nobles can see what is happening in time and learn from the successful experience of His Majesty the Emperor's governance.

Emperor Zhao Tuo's prestige reached unprecedented heights. After Zheng Shou was removed from the court, he awarded Yao Qing, the first political envoy of Liaoning, as a scholar of Tongshan Pavilion, and returned to Beijing to take over as the left attendant of the military department, and Yang Shi'an entered the cabinet to worship as an auxiliary minister.

The Yang brothers were the prime ministers, and as soon as they were published in the newspaper, they caused everyone in the world to exclaim and envy.

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After the New Year, Shang Yi's army, under the command of Gao Maichen, defended flexibly and defeated Jin

The rebel army was killed, and Wang Jinlong took his righteous son An Tong as the big leader. The news came to celebrate.

Li Dan gave priority to the first batch of 2,200 "Xi-made three-point and two-centimeter self-generated guns (about one centimeter caliber)" made by Xijing Ordnance to the high department to establish the 17th Independent Brigade, which exerted great power in this battle, and made the rebels fly out of the sky, and became famous in the first battle!

Zhao Tuo therefore strengthened his determination to reorganize and train the army, and took advantage of the situation to order the reorganization of 20 divisions and 15 cavalry or artillery brigades totaling 400,000 troops within three years, and to issue an additional 6 million treasury bonds to this end with the Hunan Tea Title and the Guizhou Yanjing Liquor Pledge.

As Shaanxi and Gansu successfully paid taxes and offered to freeze the state treasury's appropriations for Shaanxi and Gansu within three years, the Ministry of Finance was able to repay most of the debts, and the cabinet was relieved and saw the advantages of this form of treasury bonds, so it smoothly approved the plan to issue new treasury bonds.

"Shangjing Daily" released this huge positive information in advance.

On the day of the issuance of the treasury bonds, the people of Zhili, who had tasted the sweetness of the Liao bonds, flocked to the 27 sales points in various counties, and it took only one day for the treasury bonds to be snapped up by enthusiastic subscribers.

The subscribers who rushed from Henan, Huaisi, Hebei, and Shandong immediately demanded that in the future, the treasury bonds must be distributed to the surrounding areas in a certain amount, which surprised An Zaishangshu.

At this time, Li Dan also encountered almost the same problem in Shaanxi and Gansu, the first phase of Shaanxi and Gansu construction bonds were sold out in Xi'an Prefecture, and the prefectures of Hanzhong, Tianshui, Lanzhou, Yan'an, and Yinchuan quickly submitted letters to the governor's yamen, asking for it to be local

Set up a branch of a bank and distribute a certain share of the bond.

Interests are evenly distributed, and this is what everyone expects. Li Dan had no choice but to find Wen He and ask him to establish branches in various prefectures within three months anyway. In the letter, he reported the situation to Zhao Tuo, concluding:

"It seems that the construction of the bank branch can be carried out faster, but the minister did not expect that the harm of the people's bitter banknotes will last for a long time, and he hopes that the imperial court will renovate and rectify it like Ganlin. What the people want, the minister thinks that the people have to do it!"

In the following month, the Imperial Bank was announced, and the emperor ordered the confiscated eastern buildings of the Xiangteng Mansion to be demolished and reconstructed on the spot, and 40 acres of ground facing the street were set aside to build the headquarters of the Imperial Bank and the headquarters of the Zhili Branch.

Six branches in Guide, Chenzhou, Yanxi, Xuzhou, Suzhou and Yingzhou also started construction at the same time, and more than 60 acres of land were set aside behind the bank headquarters as the site of the Imperial School of Finance and Finance.

As a training institution for financial and economic talents, the school began to recruit the first batch of 700 students, and the instructors came from banks in Liaoning and Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as from the offices of the political department.

The first phase of Shaanxi-Gansu construction bonds totaled 3.2 million yuan (that is, the previous 1.6 million taels), which was the first bond in yuan.

Li Dan plans to use it mainly for the construction of two national highways in Lansu and Xixi (Xi'an to Xining and Lanzhou to Suzhou, the national highway standard is six lanes in the opposite direction), as well as the construction of necessary bridges, post stations and Weibao, and a small part for the construction of water conservancy facilities in Yan'an, Yulin and Ningxia.

The pledge of the bonds is the ten-year management right and contracting right of the 5,000-mu planting base of Ganzhou Codonopsis, Angelica, rhubarb, licorice and other drugs, the mining right of Yangshan Gold Mine and the seven-year management right of the three horse farms

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If you have money in your hand, you don't panic. Li Dan and the emperor had already secretly discussed that when the bond issuance was successful, they would take action against the Ganzhou rebels to completely eliminate the trouble.

He had already begun to transfer and recruit new troops from various armies and guards in Shaanxi, and began to establish two integrated infantry divisions, the 10th and 15th Infantry Divisions, a cavalry training brigade, and an artillery regiment on the basis of some units that had performed well in the suppression of the rebellion.

Lu Chengyuan served as the chairman of the reorganization committee, Zhao Jingzi was the deputy, and he also served as the principal of the Lintong Martial Arts School.

This martial arts school is divided into six sections: infantry, reconnaissance, cavalry, artillery, logistics, and pacification, of which the reconnaissance department includes the military intelligence training center that was originally run by King Xi (Xie Guiting) in the ravine, and the executive director of the martial arts school is Bai Shun.

The national highway from Xi'an to Tongchuan has been completed, and the next phase will extend all the way to Yijun, Huangling, Yan'an, and Yulin, bringing Yulin's high-quality coal to Fuping.

The road to Anding via Xianyang to Yangling, Fufeng, Chencang, Tianshui, and Longxi has been repaired to Meixian (6,000 Zodiac petty offenders work in four labor camps on this line).

There is only one purpose of opening up this road: to make the products of Gongchang Iron Works more smoothly transported to Fuping, because there are Fuping Iron and Steel Works and Xijing Ordnance Institute in Yaozhou!

At present, the Xijing Ordnance Institute still only relies on iron produced in Hanzhong, which is smelted in Xunyi and used as a raw material for guns, and uses the power source of hydraulic stamping, forging, cutting and grinding to widely use the difference between paint and water.

However, due to the shortage of iron and high-quality coal, its output was limited and could only be used as a supplement, and the armaments needed for the reorganization of the Western Army still needed to be transferred from the Luoyang Ordnance Institute in Henan and even the Zhengding Ordnance Institute in Hebei.

Although the quantity is insufficient, due to the local production of nitrate, Ningxia Lingzhou sulfur, Hanzhong high-quality charcoal, so the quality and quantity of gunpowder produced by Xijing Ordnance is in the northern armies

It is among the best in the machinery department.

This is also the main capital it can use to exchange supplies with other major ordnance offices, as well as sheepskin thermal equipment, cowhide products such as leather belts, waterproof ammunition boxes, copper, tin, iron products, boots and hats, etc.

In the form of exchanging goods, the Xijing Ordnance Institute exchanged 60,000 guns and 300 two-inch and three-and-a-half-inch guns and a large amount of ammunition for the Western Army from various places within half a year. Li Dan relied on these formations to train a new army.

The ninth, 10th, 11th, 15th, and 20th divisions, five cavalry brigades, and four artillery regiments of the New Army were all exchanged for weapons and equipment, and only the 17th and 18th independent brigades (stationed in Yongchangwei and Liangzhouwei) were really equipped with equipment made in Xijing.

For the westward expedition, Li Dan began to buy a large number of heavy trucks, horses, alfalfa, wheat bran, bean feed and salt, as well as dry food and clothing for the army.

For the 100,000 troops of the Western Expedition, he requested that the annual supply of 200,000 be prepared, and the bank was also ready to issue "Dingxi Campaign Savings Local Bonds".

But he didn't have all the supplies ready, and people could already see that something was wrong.

Wang Jinlong knew that Xi'an would attack him sooner or later, so when he learned that the 10th Division was stationed in Lanzhou, he began to communicate closely with the surrounding departments, contacting various forces including Tubo, Zhuqiang, Ye'erjiang, Dangxiang, and even Yilibury, asking for their support.

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Before and after Li Dan's arrival, one of the tasks of Liu Qi and Li Tiedao was to understand the actual situation in the western region

。 In the end, he found that the Ming Dynasty was very different from the contemporaneous Ming Dynasty that he had known in his previous life.

Let's start with Elibury, the most powerful in the region, which was split twice from the Timurid Empire.

The "Emperor of Scholars" Urub was forced by his son Radib to move his capital to Herat (the capital of Herat province in Afghanistan) and was killed the following year, and Radib was killed by Urub's generals.

At the end of last year, the cousin of the third uncle of Urub Bo, who was the son of the third uncle, occupied the river and succeeded him in Samarkand (the capital of Uzbekistan), while the son of his second uncle, Baikar, had already been elected by his subordinates in Herat to call himself Sudan, and the Timurid empire was divided into two parts.

Now is the time for Bhasain to succeed to the throne and face a quarrel with Baikar over the issue of legitimacy.

The emir (magistrate of the city of Ili) of Ilibury (i.e., the city of Ili) had no interest in anything far from the east, because the two provinces to the east and south, Turpan (the emir was Jalemy) and Kashtur (the emir was Dohe), were left behind by the old Sudan, and it was still a big question whether they recognized themselves as the new emir appointed by the Sultan!

Why are you so worried about Turpan and Kashtur? Because they are a family, they are all descendants of the Eastern Kipchak Khanate.

Eighty years ago, the Eastern Kipchak Khanate invaded Samarkand, and after being expelled, the Timurid Empire directly sent troops to occupy Yilibori, and the Kipchak Khanate had to submit and was divided into three provinces: Turfan, Kashtur and Tarim.

Nominally, the area was under the control of Elibury, and he had the responsibility of supervising the three families, but it wasn't decades ago!

The Tarim is sparsely populated and there is still a large desert barrier between Tarim and Eliburi

It doesn't matter if they're separated, those two are both vast and powerful, and they are still worried all day long, how can they care about the messy things in the Han world?

But this is his own vision of the problem, for the Han people, Tarim is Ye'er Jiang, and this Ye Erjiang is two different things from Turpan and Kashgar. Why?

The origin of Ye'er Jiang is the Ergu people Yebi'e, they came to the southern edge of the desert as the guardian of the western part of the empire, the capital was in the city of Yerkan at the beginning, and after the fall of the empire, they were afraid of the invasion of Kashtur, so they moved the city of Khan to Khotan.

Later, they also declared themselves vassals to the Eastern Kipchak Khanate, and when the Timurid Empire came, they declared themselves vassals to the new powers and accepted the arrangement of becoming provinces, but they still called themselves emirs externally, and Yeerjan Khan internally, and considered themselves to be descendants of the Ergu Empire.

Unlike Turpan, which was willing to maintain friendly and trading relations with the Han Chinese, Ye'er Jiang was always hostile to the Han Chinese, and often intruded the area east of the Kunlun Mountains and west of Jiayuguan.

The so-called Ye bandits refer to them, which is the biggest obstacle to cutting off the trade routes in the Western Regions

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To their southeast, there is a force living in the southern part of the Chaydanmu Basin, which is the remnant of the Western Xia Dangxiang, which has survived over the Qilian Mountains to this day.

These people accepted the clothes of the Tibetan people, but they had different customs and languages, and most of them even spoke Chinese.

This tribe is called the West Huts, known for their toughness and good riding and archery, with a number of about 20,000, and its head is called Weiming, and the left and right compartments are under the control, and the lower is the control.

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The style of 200 years ago has been completely preserved. They were also the friendliest to the Han Chinese who had expelled the Ergu regime.

Further south to the green

The western part of the Haihu region is a small Ergonian tribe, the Terrell tribe. They moved here after the collapse of the empire, and their number was not as large as that of the party.

Originally, he couldn't pee in the same pot with the party members, but because he refused to accept the Yellow Sect, he was hated by the Tubo people, and formed a tacit understanding with the party items to keep warm.

They were suspicious of their old enemies, and even when they made deals with the Han Chinese, they would disappear without a trace at the slightest hint of trouble.

There is also the power of the Qiang people at the southeast foot of Kunlun Mountain. After the change of dynasty, Taizu sent the general Ming Zhao (Ming Yuzhen Yizi) through Gannan.

Ming Zhao adopted the strategy of supporting the Qiang people against the Tibetans, and established three thousand households in Dulan, Tongde, and Xinghai west of the Mangra River, supporting the three tribes of the Qiang people respectively, and later called the black-headed Qiang, red-headed Qiang, and white-headed Qiang respectively because of their flag colors.

In the past few decades, these three tribes have grown to 10,000 people, have a high rate of intermarriage with the Han people, and have a deep degree of sinicization.

But the Tibetans were not willing to be blocked on the west side of Kunlun Mountain, and they often came out to struggle. However, in the second year after the collapse of Emperor Xuanzong, the protector king also died. They have no descendants, and who will inherit them has become a problem.

Emperor Jingwu was still the young empress dowager when he was in the court, and it was difficult to judge this matter, so it was postponed.

Several of the relatives of the Protector King were not convinced by each other, and the kings did not agree with each other, which caused the internal forces of Tibet to be disunited, but made it impossible for them to pose much of a threat to Ganqing.

It was easy to sort out these clues, and finally Li Dan came to a conclusion: Ye Erjiang is a big threat, and Tubo, who originally looked very powerful, seems not so terrifying, but a character who needs to be guarded against.

He instructed Li Tie

Dao managed to contact the Dang Xiang people, because the plateau used soldiers, I am afraid that these people are far more adaptable to the climate and geography than the Han soldiers!

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