On the outskirts of Kyoto, Salander, Hall of Stars,

The summer currents in June bring a warm climate, and the Salander Peninsula is particularly green and vibrant, and in the middle of summer, the mountains around the temple are covered with lush acacia trees, occasionally dotted with a little red in the rich emerald green, which is the bud that is blooming.

The morning mist shrouded the surroundings of the Starlight Hall for a long time, and the morning light peeked through the light mist, with a hazy meaning, making this temple located in the southwest of the suburbs of Saland's Kyoto look like a fairyland. As a secondary hall for members of the royal family of the former dynasty of Salander, the Starlight Hall is completely made of smooth and bright marble, solid and full of holiness, in the vast white mist, from the bottom of the mountain, the Starlight Hall located in the middle of the mountain can only see the white marble stone and rice walls, and the deep arched door, like a shrine in the clouds

The sun appeared through the clouds, and the afterglow sprinkled on the high spires of the towers in the corners of the sacrificial hall, and the roofs of the central buildings were also illuminated with gold, and the bright yellow sunlight passed through the lattice glass of the roof and fell on the walls diagonally below the room, and the colorful patterns were like in an empty theater, playing silent light and shadow in the darkness.

This is one of the largest sky worship halls on the outskirts of Kyoto, and on the steps of the temple at the top of the mountain, several white doves with outstretched wings fluttered up from the steps, breaking through the open space and buildings in front of the worship hall, or landing on the exquisite sculptures of the pillars on the walls, or landing on the edge of the fountain, making cooing sounds, pacing back and forth leisurely, the entire sacrificial temple, as if immersed in a plane different from the mortal world, time passes slowly.

At this time, on both sides of the gate of this temple that had been silent for a long time, there were black-armored guards in full uniform, and the area of a thousand meters around the temple was under martial law, and no one else could be seen. Only occasionally one or two carriages quietly drove by, and they came to the entrance of the Hall of Starlight along the winding mountain path, and the carriage stopped. The man above hurried down, handed over his papers to the guards for inspection, and then quickly disappeared into the deep round arch, and after a while, hurried out again, and left in a carriage.

The fat man temporarily moved his office to the Hall of Starlight

The midsummer of June is very hot in the mainland of Ikadiva, and the island of Salander is a peninsula with three sides facing the sea, which can bring a hint of coolness from the sea breeze in such a midsummer season, and in terms of location. The Salander Peninsula is located halfway between the continents of Ikadiva and Obarro, and in terms of distance, it is a good choice for fat people who need to be able to process information from the two continents in a timely manner, if it is not for the steppe people insisting that a meaningful marriage must be held in the grassland, or the fat man will directly order this celebration of political significance more than love to be held on Salander Island

In the Hall of Starlight, the first person to arrive was naturally the Grand Duchess of Nilai in the north of Salander, and the fat man felt a little guilty when he saw the beautiful Duchess who had been absent for a long time. He owed too much to the Archduchess, the Salander dynasty was defeated by himself, and tens of thousands of Salander expeditionary forces were declared rebellious, when most of the Salanders blamed the empire. Nilai, who was born in Salander, always stood by his side unconditionally,

In this changing era, everyone is faced with a variety of choices among their own women. It is not for nothing that is based on love, but more people are based on the needs of interests, and women like Nilai are judged almost entirely by emotion. It's just Nilai,

After Nilai, the arrival was all from Vichia, and the feeling of seeing each other moved the fat man, especially in this romantic temple named after Starlight. The emotion of the lover meeting is indescribable to outsiders, and Mao Monaqing's resentful look makes the fat man feel ashamed.

"Here, let Daddy hug!"

The fat man happily teased his month-old son, but unfortunately the little guy couldn't speak, and the fat man just stretched out his little hand and squeaked and screamed, and kept kicking his legs at the fat man. The little mouth was full of saliva, and in the eyes of a group of beautiful maids next to him, the fat man found that the little guy had completely taken his place, and everyone rushed to take turns to play with the little guy, as if he was the real master here, and the woman's maternal nature was undoubtedly reflected here.

After Mao Mona Qing gave birth to a child, she became more and more of a hostess, and this marriage with Congxi Wangting was able to succeed in a large way, because of the willingness of the balanced faction represented by Mao Mona Qing, because she returned to the grassland to prepare for the marriage of her godsister Philan Dunya, the princess of the West Prairie did not come, and the Dylan Kiss of the Dylan family, who likes the secluded Dylans family, may be the biggest surprise of the fat man, this beautiful girl who looked a little naïve at the beginning, at this time has shown a unique elegant charm of the Dyrence Coast woman, supported by a plain white sand skirt, like a budding sea saint orchid

The fat man's heart was a little emotional, and most of the roads he and these women came together were typical combinations of political interests, but as time passed a few years ago, they had unconsciously cared for each other, although they had never found it clearly. But this little sister in her eyes has grown up after all, and she has become more and more feminine, and she is newlywed, and after dinner, the fat man can't care about Dylan Skis's shyness, and can't wait to pull the hair at night, and Nielai will sleep together.

June of the Empire was strangely calm, but no one knew that something incomparably important to the Empire was spreading to all corners of the Empire in such a hot wind,

This is the first time that His Majesty Falcon has returned to China in a real sense after two years of fighting in Obarro, and because of this, the forces of all parties have also begun to sprout, especially watching the empire expand its territory in the Obaro region, occupy a large number of fertile areas, and facilitate maritime trade, making the northwest and southwest regions occupied by the empire the most attractive areas for domestic forces.

With three-quarters of the Empire's troops stationed in the Obaro region, the continent of Icadiva, which used to be full of smoke, is now a prosperous era of peace, convenient transportation, and prosperous commerce and trade.

After five years of tragic unification wars, millions of people died. At the beginning, the separation of the various races has been completely crushed by the iron hooves of the Vekian Falcon, the Vecchians, the Rydians, the Doroks, the Nords, few people still care about each other's races, many areas of the mainland have been razed to the ground, and when the empire was rebuilt, it was built completely according to the standards of commercial cities, using the veins formed by the river. Build a dense transportation network and a convenient road network that connects cities with each other.

The rise of merchants came from two sides, on the one hand, a large number of nobles who lost their status and privileges in the war, and they were transformed like commercial aristocrats under the desire for wealth and self-help. They turned the vast wealth they had hoarded over generations into merchant ships that went to sea. Horse-drawn carriages for consignment of goods, and various raw material processing workshops, which in turn attracted and digested a large number of displaced people who lost their land in the war, injected a strong flow of capital into economic recovery.

On the other hand, it comes from the fat man behind the troubles, the establishment of commercial alliances, the extension of the vein of war to the commercial network, the unique policy inclination, and the relatively stable peaceful environment, which also attracted a large number of nobles from war-torn areas, those nobles from the mainland countries who chose to flee because of the war in the war of unification, with a large amount of wealth obtained from the sale of their family property, full of longing for life, flocked into the imperial market,

This qiē became an obstacle to the rise of merchant power. Merchants are becoming an emerging force that replaces the old power structure after the decline of aristocratic power, and wants to compare with the power of merchants. Another more powerful force still exists, and that is the military, the Falcon Empire was founded by force, after the establishment of the empire. It is also a dictatorial militaristic system, and the power of the military is in full swing in the Falcon Empire, in the political system of the empire. The most powerful regional governors were all soldiers.

When I woke up, it was already noon, the sun was shining outside the window, the room was quiet, the fat man was left alone on the big bed, the tips of his nose and fingers seemed to still have the fragrance of the women, the fat man stretched a lazy waist, this may be the calmest morning in the past few months, there is no hustle and bustle of the Jin Ge Iron Horse, there is no adjutant waiting for him at the door with a thick stack of Wen Jiàn, there are no imperial generals with solemn faces,

Looking up at the circular ceiling of the temple projecting sunlight, the fat man felt a rare peace in his heart, no wars, intrigues, blood, conflicts, people's hearts and other troubles, only this pure sunlight like countless lights, and the laughter of a maid outside the window as crisp as a bird and with a little freshness,

"Lighten up, is Your Majesty still resting?" Mao Mona Qing came with a somewhat coquettish voice, the door opened a line, and with the sunlight drifting in, there was a very moving voice

"Your Majesty must be tired, and last night was too ......!" The fat man recognized it as Dylan Skis's voice, he was a little crazy last night, this little girl's voice was a little hoarse, thinking of last night's scene, this hoarse became more and more tempting impulse,

The last thing that came to my ears was the sound of the little guy babbling

The fat man finally knew that he couldn't stay in bed, got up from the bed, and put on a thin and light robe, which is one of the most accustomed home casual clothes of the Salander people, made of a kind of flax thread, a specialty of Salander Island, with a soft texture and comfort, but the one the fat man wore was not a linen thread, but a kind of "Tan Si" from the distant Central Bean Empire It seems that the commercial route of the Obaro continent has been connected with the Central Bia region, and more and more goods from the hinterland of Obaro have appeared in the goods of the Central Bia Empire.

When I came out of the room, I saw the women bending over and teasing the little guy who was still babbling in the cradle cart, Mao Mona Qing was standing alone in a light green dress, her long hair was draped over her round and seductive shoulders, and when she saw the fat man come out, she took out a letter from her cuff, and walked over gently and said, "This is the messenger of the Hulun tribe who just sent it"

"Hulun?"

The fat man's eyes blinked unexpectedly, since the original farewell of Ailei, the Huren people seem to have changed their attitude towards the empire,

"Why don't you take a look, maybe it's some kind of surprise!" Mao Mona Qing chuckled at the stupid man, as if he knew something that might be involved in the letter, and said slowly, "The current residence of the Hulun tribe has separated from the original island and began to migrate to a coastal land specially set aside by the empire.

Although the relationship with the empire is extraordinary, in front of the big tree of the empire, the vine of the Huren tribe is born with a congenital deficiency, like the sea Dylans, a weak population base, and complex contradictions within the clan. are restricting the development of these two families in the empire, compared with the Northwest Maomo family, the northern grasslands and the east and west, and the spiritual pillars of the royal families, the Hulun family and Dylans are more like the kind of people who just want to be alone in the tide of the times, the leaders of the two forces are women, and in terms of ambition, these two forces may be the thinnest!"

"Even if there are some accidents, they can be forgiven!"

Mao Monaqing's expression was calm, and the meaning of her words seemed a little unclear. The fat man opened the letter a little dazedly, his eyes froze, the hand holding the letter trembled slightly, and he glanced at Mao Mona Qing with deep eyes, hesitating

"I heard that Hu Lunfilin gave birth to a daughter last year, which is very beautiful, but unfortunately, they didn't dare to reveal any news, and I only found out in January!"

Mao Mona said with a smile on the corner of her mouth: "I heard that Hulun Feilin is the patriarch of the next generation of Hulun clan. The patriarch of the Hulun clan has always been a woman, and it seems that a little patriarch was born, such a noble person, it is better to be named by His Majesty!"

"What the hell are you and the Hulun going on!"

The fat man gently brushed Mao Mona's green waterfall-like hair with his hand, and said with some anger and amusement, "Don't think I don't know. The Hulun clan has helped you this time, I heard that Rui Tang Tingna went to the Hulun clan for help, but she ended up eating a closed door, and the Dylans family also had the same attitude. That's why Rui Tang Tingna's thoughts are dead, and this is the condition set by the Hulun clan! Let Hulun Filin's daughter recognize you as an aunt? As for Dylan Skis, you will take it with you personally. Undoubtedly, it has already shown that it does not mind competing for favors! What are the conditions that the Dyrrens family gave you?"

"Your Majesty has thought too much, no matter what, this is Her Majesty's daughter, but Hu Lun Feilin is the patriarch of the next generation, and she must not marry Her Majesty in the bright light, in order to avoid the outflow of Her Majesty's blood, if you want this girl to have an official identity, you always need a name!" Mao Mona Qing's expression rarely showed a touch of sternness, it seems that the concept of orthodox bloodline is deeply rooted in the heart of this ice and snow beauty, although in the end he still doesn't know the transaction between Mao Mona Qing and the Dyrence family, and the fat man has no heart to investigate.

Because a figure that made the fat man have to take it seriously came to Salander, that is, the fat man was still in the empire, and the adjutant Prais, who was in charge of the heavy military operations of the empire, in order to supply the huge operational needs of the front, the fat man at the beginning of the year, listened to Prais's construction, carried out a comprehensive reform of the empire's internal affairs and military affairs, and took advantage of the rare opportunity of local peace in the controlled area of the empire to rectify internal affairs, reorganize the army, and straighten out relations.

The reorganization of the administration is mainly divided into two major parts: one is the reorganization of the administrative regions, the abolition of some departments that were previously set up specifically for the war of imperial unification, the replacement and appointment of new officials, and the establishment of local and central organs; the other is the improvement of the establishment of the organs under the jurisdiction of the regional governors, the establishment of simple and efficient organs for the operation of the army, and the formation of a set of effective operational systems with a high rate, so that after receiving the battle order, the troops can be quickly mobilized to meet the operational needs!

The main content of the administrative regional adjustment is to weaken the regional separation between the original countries. Regardless of which kingdom these areas were before, after rectification, in the region, completely eliminate the traces of the original kingdom, adopt the provincial system, Ryrdian is divided into three northern provinces, six Paraven provinces, and three southern provinces, Nord is divided into six southern mountain provinces, except for the Dorok Mountains, the establishment of a relatively loose management model, the other regions adopt the city system, the region is divided according to the city as the center, the city management officials have administrative power, but the appointment power is in the hands of the Imperial Ministry of the Interior, city officials can be recommended by the local, mainly responsible for the implementation of the imperial Ministry of the Interior promulgated by the various policies and regulations,

This move inevitably caused some resistance, and some unpleasant things happened in both Ryerdian and Nord, and some people even rushed to the streets to demonstrate and protest, but they were quickly suppressed by the local garrison. Under a series of coercion and temptation of the empire, the reforms of these two countries have also been carried out smoothly, of course, it is inevitable that they want to be completely smooth sailing, and there will definitely be all kinds of twists and turns in the middle.

But under the indomitable style of the adjutant chief Prais, who had shocked the whole continent, the internal changes within the empire were finally normalized, but the stubborn stone that needed to be shaken for real reform was the army, which was called the pillar of the empire.

"The main battle force of the imperial army is nearly 300,000, the local garrison is 400,000, and the border guard is 80,000, and the total number is already nearly 800,000. For the peaceful empire itself, stationing more than half of the empire's troops is really a bit too heavy, and the existence of the empire's legion area also makes the empire's decrees impossible to accompany in many places!"

When Prais said this, the fat man also felt a little tricky to stand up, he knew very well that the empire was founded by the army, and shaking the army was shaking the foundation of the country, but Prais was right about one thing. The number of troops retained in the empire itself is indeed a bit large, and the system of legionary jurisdictions originally established to motivate the legions to fight bravely is obvious to the interior of the empire, which has now formed a unified empire.

It's like an order conveyed from the inside, when it comes to the territory of the legion, it has no effect at all, and several military bigwigs don't even dare to fart in front of themselves, but in the face of the orders of the so-called Ministry of Internal Affairs. It's something that can be thrown off at will,

If it weren't for the Minister of the Interior, Prais, who was also the deputy chief of military affairs, the backstage of the Ministry of the Interior would be Mao Monaqing, who could become the Empress of the Empire, and several military bigwigs would definitely not buy the account of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Several times I had heard complaints from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, "The problems of the army are complex and not easy to change, but they can be changed in other ways!" the fat man walked back and forth a few times. "Three-quarters of the Empire's army is currently fighting in Obarro, and this is a good opportunity to try to persuade the Legion Commanders to surrender their existing legion districts. In exchange, the Legion Commanders can find new jurisdictions in the area occupied by Obaro!" "If that's the case, will the Legion Commanders answer?" Prais nodded, still unsure of the fact that "they are all pillars of the Empire, and each of them is heavily armed, and if the morale of the army is shaken by this reform, it will have a heavy impact on His Majesty's war in the Obaro region" "In other words, those guys, I know better than you! As long as the interests are sufficient, they will not have an opinion!" After all, they know very well that the area under the jurisdiction of the legion cannot be inherited, and it is a big deal that I will assign a city to them in the northwest region as a fief.

"These fiefs have only the right to tax and not to recruit soldiers, and I can allow them to divide their fiefs among all their children if they wish!"

The fat man touched the bridge of his nose, smiled at the corner of his mouth, thought of the reform of a whimsical woman on the grassland at the beginning, and said slowly, "If you divide it like this, after a few generations, the area of the fief is estimated to be not much larger than a farm" "There is such a way!"

Prais was stunned when he heard this, with a stunned face that could not be concealed, first a little puzzled, and then listened to it, and heard that his body trembled slightly, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, His Majesty's trick is really poisonous, who doesn't want their children to be able to get an inheritance, but if there are many children, no matter how big the land is, if it is really according to the method that His Majesty said, it will not take fifty years, and a city can be divided into rural areas!" He is also a nobleman, and the aristocracy adopts the one-son inheritance system,

That is to say, no matter how many sons there are, only one son can continue to be the fief and title of the noble, and the other children have to fend for themselves

Because of this, there are often bloodshed cases within the aristocratic family in order to inherit the title fief, and Plais has always regarded this one-word inheritance system as a shame of the aristocratic system, but now it seems that it is only discovered that because it is a one-word inheritance, so the family can rise, and the reason why the Falcon Majesty's trick is poisonous is that the possibility of this fief being bigger has been shelved in the system.

The fat man didn't seem to take the shock on Prais's face in his eyes, but the more he talked, the more excited he became, "What needs to be paid attention to is the local garrison, they are the most closely connected with the locality, and now there is no war in the interior, the number of 400,000 is really a bit excessive"

The fat man turned around, knocked on the table in front of him with his hand, looked at the beautiful mountain scenery outside the temple window, and said in a deep voice, "You come up with a plan, the local garrison can be cut, in fact, I think the local garrison can be reduced to 200,000 is enough, 10,000 to 30,000 training troops are stationed in key provinces, and 1 to 3,000 ordinary soldiers are stationed in non-key areas. These areas where heavy troops are stationed have been renamed military regions, which can not only eliminate the influence of the legion area, but also strengthen the efficiency of army organization and assembly!" "The cut local troops can allow them to voluntarily return to the local area or transfer to the navy, the imperial navy will have a big move in Obarro, and I was eager to ask for the strength of the army, I was still hesitating to mobilize troops from what empire, but now it seems that it is these local troops" "What about the defense army over there, Your Majesty, you seem to have forgotten to say it!"

Prais looked stern and asked with a fair face, the fat man looked at him, his eyes flickered, and he had an urge to slap his face, the border guards were the troops of their little lover Berant Bonnie, and it was by using their resentment towards the steppe people that the fat man handed her the sword hanging over the head of the steppe people, if someone would collude with the steppe to damage the interests of the empire, Berant Bonnie was the most unlikely one, so this time Rui Tang Tingna ran into walls everywhere, and she definitely didn't dare to ask for Berland Bonnie. "I think the border guards will not only not be able to move, but will also increase, from the current 70,000 to 100,000," the fat man looked serious

"It's not good, Your Majesty has weakened the legion and reduced the local army, but you want to increase the strength of the border guards, just afraid that it will be spread out......" The look on Prais's face looked very ugly, a little shocked, and a little disdainful, who doesn't know that the dead fat man's thoughts about that Berant Bonnie, called master and apprentice, are actually a pair of adulterers and adulteresses!" "The border guards are a sharp sword in my hand, and its function is to deter the northern border of the empire!" The fat man pretended to squint for a while, and found that Prais was still looking at him, as if he had seen an incomparably brilliant flower grow on his face.

Really, what kind of expression do you bastard?

The fat man took a deep breath unhappily, and said in a dissatisfied voice, "The inland of the empire has drastically reduced the army, and the steppe people may not have a tendency to move, and they will never think that if I marry a princess of the steppe, I will be able to make the steppe people completely surrender, you have also fought with the steppe people, you should know very well that for the interests and strength of the tribe, the steppe people dare to sacrifice and take risks, do you still want to see the scene of the bloody city again!"

Hearing the fat man's words, even with the tenacity of Prais, he shuddered in his heart,

At the beginning, the steppe people invaded the northern part of Rui Erdian, the land was full of blood, more than two million Rui Erdian people were slaughtered, and the entire northern land became a battlefield, if it wasn't for Rui Erdian who was completely injured in that war, even if the Vekia Falcon was really the reincarnation of the god of war, it would not be possible to destroy Rui Erdian, the first power in the continent, in less than a year!

Whew...... One breath, 7,000 words (to be continued......