Pull the timeline back to a year ago.

That is, when the navy suffered heavy losses, no matter how much the surviving generals who led their troops to sea did not want to spread the news, the relevant news was quickly transmitted back to the capital, which once again caused controversy in the court, and the officials quarreled.

Some people feel that it is a shame and must be fought back.

Some people think it's bad luck and not a crime of war.

Some people feel that they have to take it slow and train more of the navy, otherwise it will be difficult to win this big battle even if the navy of this grade is really on the border of the daughter country.

There are also people who feel that there is no need to bury the lives of the soldiers in vain, it is a big deal to build a city near Nanwan Island, send some soldiers to station, and beware of the daughter country and those White Lotus Sect traitors who escaped from going ashore.

Of course, there are many other officials who have proposed.

However, all remarks can be divided into three categories, the first category is to forget it, there is no need to waste money for this, as long as the daughter country and the people of the White Lotus Sect do not come back.

The second category is that it is necessary to fight, and it is necessary not to give up until the country is destroyed.

The third type is a compromise, which can neither ignore nor make a big move, but just like defending the Beirong barbarians, just build a city and build a defensive line to defend it.

As long as the daughter country and the White Lotus Sect are kept out of the country.

It's victory.

Officials with different ideas argued endlessly, each with its own position, and each with its own reasoning, but in the end, all ideas were no match for the lack of money in the treasury, so they had no choice but to withdraw their troops, and for the time being, they would forget about it for the time being.

Leave as many people as you can and keep an eye on the coastline.

As for why the treasury, which made Emperor Xuanwu feel that it was very abundant in gold and silver a few months ago, ran out of money after just a few months, of course, it was thanks to the efforts of the nobles and officials of the clan, and it was their efforts to delay the full treasury to become a direct runner.

Let's talk about the clan first.

Although Qu Jie and the White Lotus Sect have exterminated some of the local vassal kings of the county capital, they are still very disciplined and only destroy the guilty vassal kings and the heirs of the vassal kings, and they are not capable of doing evil to some side branches, or they themselves are not capable of doing evil.

They all spared, and they did not kill innocents indiscriminately.

Previously, the overall situation was relatively chaotic, so those side branches of the feudal kings who escaped the catastrophe did not dare to rise to the top at all, nor did they have a chance to enter the capital, but as the situation gradually stabilized, and the White Lotus Sect completely left the Great Dry Realm.

The side branches of those vassal kings began to move, and they all pooled money to enter Beijing and went to Zongzheng to cry.

According to the ancestral teachings, as long as the feudal kings in various places have not completely extinguished their heirs, or have been removed from their titles for crimes, then their prince's position will always be valid, and the eldest son can be inherited by the eldest grandson when he dies, and the eldest son and eldest grandson can be inherited by the second son, even if the descendants are all dead, they can also be inherited by the concubine, and the concubine is also dead, and the old prince brother who has not inherited the throne and only inherited the throne of the county king can also be inherited by the previous generation.

Or the heirs of those brothers.

So in fact, only the first and second generations of princes are easier to extinct, and after three or five generations, it will be difficult for this prince to be completely cut off.

So in fact, these vassal kings who originally did not have any inheritance rights at all now have the right to inherit, and at this time they ran to Zongzheng's side to cry mainly to be able to inherit the throne, even if they can't inherit the throne, it's good to inherit the position of a county king or a prince, if they don't die, how can they have this opportunity?

And the princes of the other clans, out of consideration that the strength of the clan should be stronger, so that the emperor can be jealous and dare not attack them, if the strength is too weak, a will can kill them all, it will be very dangerous.

Even if they are very unhappy, they will be on the sidelines.

In the end, there was intervention to help.

As soon as they helped, the final result was that those vassal kings and county kings that Qu Jie had finally destroyed were reincarnated in the filthy soil, and they reappeared again, and it was impossible for Emperor Xuanwu to return the land that had become an imperial village to them, and he was even more embarrassed to send them back directly without giving them an acre of land or a penny of copper money.

Therefore, it can only be paid by the treasury according to the usual practice.

Give them a few years of money in advance.

Then, except for the injury of the treasury, everyone else can be regarded as happy, and there is basically no big loss.

Of course, those who are already dead do not count.

Immediately after the clan, it was the nobles and the hundred officials who took the silver from the treasury, and their reasons for taking the silver were quite reasonable, their family was stolen by the White Lotus Sect and Princess Jiahe, and now even eating is a problem, not to mention expenses such as the marriage of children.

Whether it is true or not.

That's what they say to the outside world anyway.

Emperor Xuanwu has never been able to solve the case, let alone get the gold and silver back, plus it is Princess Jiahe, who belongs to the royal family, who is still doing it, and now their children are getting married, and doing some other things that cost a lot and are very reasonable, is there anything wrong with not having money to borrow from the treasury?

No problem......

The most important thing is that some officials always feel that their family money has been stolen, and it is indeed likely that Emperor Xuanwu and Princess Jiahe, a two-person bureau.

It is even more justified to borrow silver.

Even if he borrowed too much, he felt that the law did not blame the public, and he had no idea of repaying the money at all, so he really borrowed money from the treasury as if he was taking silver from his own treasury.

In addition, the disaster in various places has reduced taxes.

Most of the good assets of those county governments that had been plagued by the White Lotus Sect were divided between the emperor himself and the nobles and officials involved, and very few of them could be sold to the treasury, so after just a few months, the treasury was so empty that it was unable to prepare a new naval army to attack the daughter country.

It's just normal.

Correspondingly, many noble officials whose family backgrounds were hollowed out by Qu Jie have regained a considerable family foundation, and the one who has benefited the most is undoubtedly Emperor Xuanwu himself, even he, the emperor, is desperately digging for the treasury wool, how can other officials not be rich?

The treasury has no money, and no matter how noisy it is, it is useless.

This matter can only be settled.

But a year later, that is, when the sailors who were rescued by Qu Jie obtained the land and secretly sent people back to their hometown to pick up their family and relatives.

Even if most of them are very cautious and try not to attract attention, most of the local officials who have lost their population are just able to cover it up, and they do not want to lower their evaluations because of the reduction in hukou.

However, a small part is still exposed.

At the same time, a small number of officials are very conscientious, investigating the relevant situation in detail and finally reaching conclusions.

Then report it layer by layer and report it to the imperial court.

Then, of course, Emperor Xuanwu was furious, and ordered all localities to investigate in detail immediately, and in the end, it took more than a month to finally investigate most of the information.

I knew that it was the fallen sailors who sent someone back to pick up the family.

Those surviving sailors didn't know that not all of their comrades who fell into the water were drowned, and some of them were rescued by the daughter country, and they thought they were all drowned.

So the report is naturally death.

Now that he is alive again, he even sent someone to pick up his family and relatives, Emperor Xuanwu naturally felt that he had been deceived, but he didn't think too much, he just thought that the navy was lying about the military situation.

I feel that the real situation may not be what the navy said, encountering thunderstorms and huge waves at sea and suffering heavy losses, but contact with the daughter country and failed in the battle, many sailors were captured and fled in embarrassment, fearing that they would be punished for defeat, so they lied that they did not see the soldiers of the daughter country at all, encountered thunderstorms and huge waves, and suffered heavy losses.

Losses suffered due to natural disasters.

Nature is not the same as defeat.

Thinking of this, Emperor Xuanwu was even more angry, not only immediately punished a series of severely, he felt that the officials who might know, even with those naval generals who had fled back before and were not punished, were also condemned, fortunately, the number of ordinary soldiers was large, Emperor Xuanwu was worried that severely punishing ordinary soldiers would cause a mutiny, so he was not punished.

is still barely living a stable life.

As for the daughter country, although Emperor Xuanwu actually wanted to attack, he really couldn't come up with the money, and at the same time, he didn't have the certainty of victory, so

I can only continue to endure it.

At most, he specially allocated hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to the navy, let them train more, and take the water bandits and thieves from all over the country to practice first, and when they have experience and save enough money, they will send troops to attack the daughter country when the time comes.

Other than that, it's nothing more than sending some spies.

Sneak into the daughter country to find out the news.

It can be regarded as making some plans in advance for knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent.

In the following years, there has been relative peace between the daughter country and the Daqian country, although the daughter country has been secretly sending people to continue to extradite people from within the Daqian country, and the Daqian country has always purchased some special products of the daughter country and sent secret agents to inquire about the news.

They have neither established diplomatic relations nor declared war.

But there is always a delicate balance.

And the core of this balance that can be maintained for a long time is that the daughter country has a miracle drug, that is, a variety of antibiotics, and those antibiotics are basically no different from the miracle medicine that cures all diseases in this era.

When the daughter country sacrificed the artifact of antibiotics.

At the same time, many high-quality and low-cost products must also be bound to antibiotics, and if you don't buy those products, you can't buy antibiotics, and you want to maintain the transaction between the two parties.

Or to put it more concisely, it can even be said that the daughter country dumps the big dry country, and it is very easy.

Just five years down.

Except for the fact that the Great Qianguo spent a lot of gold and silver, many noble officials did not die so easily, and there were a lot of high-quality and inexpensive things, almost nothing else has changed, and it is basically the same as five years ago.

But the daughter country is different.

In the past five years, the territory of the daughter country has changed from the original Jiahe Islands to 72 islands and a peninsula of 2 million square kilometers.

The total area is more than five million square kilometers.

The arable land area is more than 2 million square kilometers.

That is to say, there are nearly 3 billion mu, which is much more than the arable area of the entire Daqian, because although the area of the Daqian is large, there is not much land suitable for cultivation, unlike Qujie's daughter country, where the peninsula of more than 2 million square kilometers alone has 1 million square kilometers suitable for cultivation, and there is basically no desert and barren area.

In Daqian, even in areas such as Jiangnan, which are the most suitable for farming, the arable land is only 50 percent, and if the entire land is calculated, the land suitable for cultivation is only 13 percent of the total national land, so even if the land is nearly twice as large as Qujie's current daughter country, the arable land is only half of the daughter country's land, and it may not be, after all, there is some arable land, but there is no cultivation at all.

However, Qu Jie relied on all kinds of agricultural machinery to reclaim and plant on large farms, and basically used all the land; if she hadn't been soft-hearted and didn't dump cheap grain in Daqian, it is estimated that in less than a year, she would have been able to make all the Daqian peasants go bankrupt.

After all, they also have to pay agricultural taxes, poll taxes and other taxes, when the income from the land is lower than the cost.

They don't go bankrupt, who does?

And that's just territorial and agricultural progress.

Light and heavy industries and other industries, including national construction, education, etc., have made great progress.

Although it may not yet meet modern national standards.

But it can also be considered semi-modern.

The problem of food and clothing has been basically solved and the basic literacy work has been completed, and the next thing that needs to be done is to be well-off, as well as to expand the scale of education and the level of education, so as to make up for the problem of instability caused by the growth of Qu Jie's seedlings.

Not all the results are just lofts in the sky.

Qu Jie had to collapse as soon as she left.

That's right, although the development of the daughter country is quite good now, but most of the good here is pinned on Qu Jie alone, once she leaves or disappears, many industrial equipment can not be imitated at all, and if it is used badly, there are not many people who can repair it.

At least we have to wait for the first batch of secondary school students, college students, and all walks of life

After the training of technical personnel and the inheritance of all basic disciplines, all aspects of the daughter country can be thoroughly implemented, and it is no longer a castle in the air.

So at present, what the daughter country needs most is peaceful development, as long as it continues to develop peacefully for a few more decades, climb the science and technology tree for decades, and there is a lot of land outside that can be taken at any time, there is no need to fight for anything with the big dry country, and even the population problem is because of the capture of a large number of people from other countries.

It becomes no longer urgent.

At least there are people who do the work.

But after all, people are of different races, so naturally they can't be treated equally, and there are still some hierarchical differences.

The nationals of the conquered islands, or tribes or countries on the peninsula, must learn the language of the daughter country, join the White Lotus Sect, and make a certain contribution to obtain the nationality of the daughter country.

Otherwise, it can only be regarded as a wild man.

Property and life are not protected in any way.

However, you can join the barbarian army, although you still have no nationality, but as long as you charge into the battle and make meritorious contributions, it is still possible to get certain rewards and protection in the future.

It is also possible to get citizenship if the merit is large enough.

However, Qu Jie wanted to develop peacefully, and did not want to have any disputes with Daqian, but Emperor Xuanwu did not think so, they originally felt that the dignity of a great country could not be violated, and wanted to attack the daughter country, and in recent years, the daughter country has also shown a good thing of antibiotic miracle medicine.

Those officials of the noble clan who didn't want to save their lives were unwilling to hold the magic medicine in the hands of others, and at the same time wanted to get the magic medicine formula, and even Emperor Xuanwu himself, after accumulating five years of strength and training for the navy, they finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Picked a date and officially declared war.

And sent a full 300,000 water army.

Swear to break the daughter's country, and if you don't break it, you won't return it.