The World of Yellow Sky

The safety of Suiyang City has been ensured, and all the guards in the original government office have been replaced by Tengxiang Guards.

Riding a war horse and passing through the streets of Suiyang City, everywhere in sight is deserted as far as the naked eye can see.

There is not much popularity in this city, and there is a dead and decadent smell everywhere, which makes Xu An feel very uncomfortable.

There are no human voices or noises between the squares and cities, as if it is an empty city.

This is not because the people in the city are afraid to speak out and stay behind closed doors. Xu An can still see the difference.

He didn't feel this way when he passed through the cities of Wei Ting before. He only had this feeling in the towns that passed through Han Ting.

Xu An frowned, this was the case all the way.

This is the seat of Liang State in Yuzhou. It should be a very prosperous city, but it is so lifeless and decayed.

All the doors of the square city were opened, and Xu An was able to see everything in the square city.

The Pioneer Ming army just took over the city, and only cleared the threats on the main road. They hardly interfered with other areas of the city, and only sent some patrols to maintain law and order, which also allowed Xu An to You can directly see the other side of Suiyang City.

The rotten smell in the air is really there, Xu An's eyes entered through the door of the room, and what he saw were a few passers-by in ragged clothes, all of them were hunched over, and all of them were face-to-face. Yellow muscle.

It's not that Suiyang City doesn't have a little stronger people, but those who are either powerful and wealthy people, or landlords and merchants, how dare they go out to touch the fate of the Ming army at a time like this.

But these passers-by were obviously the poorest people at the bottom. It wasn't that they were not afraid of the Ming army, he was also afraid of it.

After all, under the propaganda of the Han court, the Ming army was a gangster who burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil.

But no matter how afraid, life still has to go on.

Years of wars and miscellaneous taxes piled on top of each other, emptied the only money and food they had accumulated, and if they didn't go to work for a day or two, without wages, they would just starve to death in the huts.

All the Ming soldiers kept their eyes on and walked forward slowly. They had seen such a scene countless times, and they were already used to it.

Every time they saw such a situation, they were just glad that they had joined the Ming army and that they were living under the rule of the Ming court.

Freezing three feet does not happen in a day, and Xu An has no way to solve this situation in a flash.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish, and governing the country can only be done slowly.

Speechless all the way, Xu An led the generals all the way into the government office of Suiyang City.

In the main hall of the government office, a group of Tengxiang guards had already tidied it up, placed tables and chairs, maps and sand tables, and everything was arranged according to the specifications of the military meeting, but it was not Xu An who wanted to hold the meeting. Military discussions, discussing operations.

This time, the discussion is only about how to accept the five original Han states that have not yet been fully included in the bag.

The Qing and Xu prefectures have now been fully taken over, but the Han court still occupied the five prefectures of Yan, Jing, Yu, Yang, and Jiao on the eve of the Battle of Pengcheng.

Although the five prefectures basically have little resistance, the four prefectures of Jing, Yan, Yu, and Yang have already submitted their surrender forms.

The road to Jiaozhou is far away, the news is transmitted back and forth, and the road along the road is rugged. Although there is no registration form, most of them are already on the road. Xu An actually doesn't care whether Shi Xie handed in the surrender form.

Shi Xie's willingness to surrender is only to save him some time and save the people of Jiaozhou from encountering some military disasters.

And even if Shi Xie was unwilling to surrender, he didn't even need to dispatch his own soldiers to go south. He only needed to let Zhang Yan call in soldiers from the barbarians in southern Xinjiang and the vassal states to defeat Shi Xie and occupy Jiaozhou.

The blood that Zhang Yan killed in southern Xinjiang flowed into rivers, and he gave both kindness and power.

Regarding these generals, Xu An did not have many ways to conceal the use of troops.
Zhang Yan, as a veteran of the Taiping Dao, also has a certain amount of research on the Yin and Yang of soldiers.

In the first few battles, Zhang Yan defeated the soldiers of the barbarians with Yin and Yang soldiers. All the barbarians in southern Xinjiang thought that the gods did not dare to disobey Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan's implementation of the chieftain system was not hindered at all. Join the Taiping Dao to practice Taoism and debate.

So the Wudang Flying Army was formally established. Zhang Yan selected hundreds of barbarians to join the army, and organized [-] people into the camp to teach Chinese, explain the scriptures, and teach them to enter the Tao.

And all their family members were transferred to the cities, and their native places were given, so that they left the tribe and no longer attached to their original tribe.

This time to attack Jiaozhou, there were more than [-] Yizhou Ming troops plus [-] Wudang flying troops as the main force, and the rest of the tens of thousands of troops were recruited from the barbarians to help the battle, as well as soldiers from vassal states.

The Jiaozhou soldiers under Shi Xie's command couldn't resist at all, lost several cities in a row, retreated all the way, and finally maintained the balance of power.

In the original time and space, Shi Xie was not even the governor of Jiaozhou, but was named General Anyuan and Marquis of Longduting.

The Three Kingdoms were established, and in the fifteenth year of Jian'an (210), Sun Quan sent Bu Zhi to be the governor of Jiaozhou. Shi Xie led his brothers to join him, and Shi Xie was named General Zuo by Sun Quan.

Shi Xie's ability is actually mediocre. If he were to be placed in the Central Plains, he would be eaten by Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others, and there would be no bones left.

However, keeping him was somewhat useful. Shi Xie's prestige in Jiaozhou was extremely high, and he was rewarded according to the military situation in the south.

Even though the Ming army was victorious, the tribes in Jiaozhou were still willing to follow Shi Xie and resisted desperately. Therefore, after the battle, in order to reduce casualties, the Ming army just surrounded and did not attack.

After all, the war that really determines the world is in Pengcheng. As long as Liu Xie is defeated in Pengcheng, the chaotic situation in the world will be settled.

It is better to recruit Shi Xie, so that the people and tribes of Jiaozhou can be used directly, which is also of great benefit to his future plans
Although neither Jiaozhou nor Yizhou has been fully developed, Xu An has no intention of giving it up to others in southern Xinjiang.

It is better for Southern Xinjiang to be in the bag as early as possible.

In the main hall of the government office, Xu An sat at the head, and Jia Xu sat at the left.

There were only the two of them in the main hall, and the rest of the generals stayed outside the hall temporarily. He needed to confirm some things with Jia Xu before starting the meeting.

"Where is the United Fleet now?"

Xu An thought for a while, thinking about Jia Xu who was beside him and asked.

There are many affairs, the military newspapers he has to read every day, and more than hundreds of news received from various cities, many things he has no way to remember clearly.

The joint navy he mentioned refers to the new fleet formed by the Liaozhou Fleet and the Haidong Provincial Fleet. Most of the Haidong Provincial Fleet has returned to the Haidong Provincial Fleet.

"Report to Duke Ming, the United Fleet has arrived at the Zhoushan Islands in Yangzhou."

Zhoushan Islands is the place named by Xu An. It was originally called Yongdong.

It didn't make sense for Xu An to change his name, and even Jia Xu thought it was a good name change.

There are mountains with wings like Mae, which rests on the sea, and is gathered by boats, so it is named Zhoushan.

I have to say that naming is really a science.

"According to Duke Ming's instructions, civilian husbands have been recruited from Xuzhou to build a military port in Zhoushan."

Jia Xu bowed his head slightly, reporting in detail.

He is also considered an old man in the mansion, Xu An basically only needs to ask the first question, and he can guess what Xu An wants to know.

Jia Xu had discovered that Xu An seemed to be particularly concerned about matters at sea before, and he planted his hands in Liaodong early.

He originally thought that Xu An was going to use the power of the sea to target Qingxu and Xuzhou. After conquering Qingxu and unifying the world, he should relax his emphasis on the sea and close the shipyard.

In Jia Xu's view, the innovation of sea opening and shipbuilding technology will bring considerable harm.

With the development of maritime trade routes, turmoil at sea has also begun to take shape.

Although it hasn't happened yet, Jia Xu can foresee some things that will happen in the future.

The sea is vast, and he has never heard anyone say that it has a boundary. He has also boarded a ship with Xu An, and he can feel his own insignificance when sailing on the sea.

Nowadays, maritime commerce and trade are very developed.

Money touches people's hearts, and there will always be people who take risks.

It is that the Ming Court is now politically clear and has a strong military force, but there are still some desperadoes in the country who rob and kill people, but they dare not occupy the mountains and become kings like in the past.

Crime is inevitable in this day and age.

Jia Xu is worried about whether the prosperity of the sea route will make pirates rampant and cause havoc along the coast.

Those scattered islands in the sea are the best hiding places.

"In the matter of opening the sea, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages."

Xu An knew what Jia Xu was thinking, he and Jia Xu had discussed this matter.

"There is almost infinite wealth in this vast sea, and the sea is the way out for the future."

"The world is far bigger than we thought..."

Xu An's voice was low, but his gaze was firm.

"The reason why I continue to expand the sea is not because I want to be famous in history, nor is it because I want to show off my achievements, and it is not because I want to become the so-called emperor through the ages."

"In my opinion, it's all just passing by."

Jia Xu's expression was serious, and he had never seen such a serious expression on Xu An's face many times.

He didn't think that what Xu An said was a lie. Today's Xu An didn't claim the title of emperor, but his achievements have indeed surpassed all the emperors in the past, and he is destined to go down in history.

Even if the history books of later generations do not boast of Xu An in any spring and autumn style, but simply record Xu An's life, it will definitely be a soul-stirring epic.

After following Xu An for many years, Jia Xu knows that Xu An is not a poor soldier who does not care about people's livelihood, but only cares about his own achievements.

He was also very puzzled, he felt that Xu An's heart was like a bright mirror, as if there was a ledger stored in his mind, and there were endless ideas in his mind.

Fighting wars is a waste of money, especially when expanding the territory, it is a waste of money and people, but Xu An carefully calculated the accounts after expanding the territory, but actually made a lot of money.

Beijiang defeated Xianbei and collected hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep from the two tribes of the northern lands, and even got hundreds of thousands of free labor and military power at once.

After the Liaodong and Western Regions defeated those countries, those captured soldiers were directly used as labor to build foundations. Now a large number of roads have been opened up in the Western Regions and Liaodong, and various foundations have also been improved.

The military expenditures used were basically seized to offset.

In the battle of the Western Regions, half of the Dawan Kingdom fell, the king was killed, and Guishuang had no choice but to stop the army. That war cost a lot of military resources, but according to Xu An's request, they sent envoys to Guishuang to demand compensation for military expenses.

As a result, Guishuang was caught in a fierce battle with the Anxi Empire in the west at that time, and was unable to do both. It could only save money and avoid disasters. It paid military compensation to the Western Regions every year, which offset most of the military expenditures. All countries came to contribute, almost no money in Mingting's treasury was spent, but a lot of food was consumed.

It turns out that this battle can still be fought like this, and such a request can be made after the war...

"Some things, if you don't seize them, the enemy will occupy them, and then we will be the ones who suffer."

"How future generations will develop, no one can predict."

Xu An's expression was solemn, and he lowered his voice as he recalled the things recorded in the book.

"The world is like a gamble, and every country is a gambler."

"Now we have won the top spot, seized the opportunity, and achieved far higher achievements than other countries and others, but there is no way to win forever, and we may lose sometimes."

"This gamble has gone through almost two thousand years, and the gamblers on the gamble have changed batch after batch."

"The history of their existence will only be recorded in the history books, or even there is no record. Their descendants will be assimilated, or even perish. There will be no place for them in this world..."

"And what we have to do, what we can do, is to allow our country to have more chips and more experience in this gamble."

"Being able to sit on the gambling table all the time, and finally win this game..."

Jia Xu's eyes flickered with brilliance, Xu An's words made him realize something in his heart, he had a faint feeling that he had grasped something, but he also felt blocked by something, making it difficult to fully understand.

"Don't think too much about it. People in each era have missions that people in their era should fulfill. As long as we travel our own missions, we will be worthy of future generations and worthy of our ancestors."

"For two thousand years, we have been winning..."

"In the future, there will be no exception."

Xu An turned his attention to Dongyi Island on the map.

Controlling Japan in the east, Denglai in the north, Ou and Fujian in the south, and Wuhui in the west, it is a huge obstacle in the sea, which is enough to prosper the country.

The Eagle Wolf Guard first entered the Yamatai Kingdom to search for news and information. Lu Sheng was currently recruiting soldiers. When the weather got warmer, the expeditionary force would board ships and go to Dongyi Island to help the Yamatai Kingdom.

The previous news from Yinglangwei confirmed that there are really only two big countries on Dongyi Island, one is Yamatai, which is asking for help, and the other is Dog slave country, and the rest of the countries are not strong, they are still very weak.

After occupying Dongyi Island, the mountains of gold and silver on it will flow into the Ming Court continuously to supplement nutrition for the Ming Court.

With this large amount of income, it is easy to open up the Silk Road on the sea.