Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 758 Full of sincerity (please subscribe!)
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August.

When the yellow and orange corn cobs were collected from the experimental field, Li Yan's heart finally fell to the ground!
Maize was successfully transplanted in China!

Li Yan rewarded all agricultural researchers.

Not only that, after the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Health, Li Yan established the Ministry of Agriculture, and focused on the establishment of the Agricultural Research Institute, which is dedicated to improving all existing crops, and Li Yan will personally handle this matter.

in fact--

At first, Li Yan separated the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Agriculture from the six traditional departments, just to show his importance to these departments.

But in the eyes of many politically sensitive people, Li Yan is preparing to reform the system.

Wen Huanzhang, Zhao Ding and others who were most politically sensitive asked to see Li Yan immediately and talked about this matter.

After this chat, Li Yan really came up with the idea of ​​restructuring.

At present, Dazhong's territory is not small.

The key is to spread out.

Moreover, the current transportation and communication are relatively backward.

Therefore, it is very difficult to manage.

Therefore, in order to manage this huge territory well, we must start from the system.

After chatting with his ministers repeatedly, Li Yan separated some departments from the traditional six departments.

For example:

Li Yan broke the practice of thousands of years and set up a Ministry of Commerce to be in charge of domestic and foreign trade, and handed over the Ministry to Zhongshu's subordinates for direct management.

Li Yan specially set up the Ministry of Development and Reform, which is responsible for the country's development and reform, and is also affiliated with Zhongshumen.

Li Yan separated taxation from local powers and established a separate taxation bureau, which was managed by the third division.

Li Yan separated the customs from the local powers and established a separate General Administration of Customs, which was managed by the third department.

Li Yan specially set up the Supervision Department, which was managed by Yushitai.

Li Yan specially set up the Audit Office, which was managed by Yushitai.

Li Yan officially established the Ministry of Science and Technology to vigorously develop science and technology—although the Ministry of Science and Technology is nominally subordinate to the Ministry of Industry, it is also managed by Li Yan himself.

and many more……

In this restructuring, Li Yan mainly refined the power of the central government based on some departments he knew in later generations, dismantled the traditional six departments, and turned them into more than a dozen departments, allowing them to check and balance each other and supervise each other so that one party does not dominate. At the same time, it collected the local financial power and increased the power of the supervision department, making it the fourth largest power department in Dazhong, second only to Zhongshumenxia, ​​the Privy Council, and the Third Division.

To put it bluntly, Li Yan is to further strengthen the centralization of power and increase the cohesion of the country.

Because Li Yan did not change the power of the Zaizhi this time, and even increased their power, this made the Zaizhi full of enthusiasm and continued to help Li Yan improve the framework Li Yan made.

Time passed slowly in the process of restructuring Dazhong.

During this process, the battlefield situation on the northern front seemed to be delicately balanced—Eastern Route Army, Yue Fei tried many times in a few months, but failed to conquer many dangerous hurdles and was defeated by the No.1 general in the world. Xie also personally garrisoned Yanjing.After the West Route Army, Liu Kai and Han Shizhong captured Shuozhou and Yingzhou, the Jin Army changed their tactics. They relied on having the world's first cavalry, and never confronted the Chinese army head-on. They just kept harassing the left and right. In other words, if you can fight well, the Golden Cavalry will fight, if you can't, the Golden Cavalry will run away, and the Shuobei Plain is flat, which greatly benefits the Golden Cavalry's tactics. Therefore, there is not much progress on the western front. .

At the end of September, Xixia's send-off team sent Princess Yinchuan, Princess Xiping (Liang Xianxian), and Princess Huining (Liang Shishi) of Xixia to Bianliang, Tokyo.

The Dazhong court held a grand concubine ceremony for Li Yan, Li Qinglu, Liang Xianxian, and Liang Shishi.

At the same time, Zhongxia also began to fulfill the Zhongxia alliance.

The treaty of alliance is roughly as follows:

Dazhong recognized Daxia as one country, and the two sides interacted on an equal footing. They were brothers (Dazhong was the older brother and Daxia was the younger brother). Li Yan is eight years old, but he is a younger brother), that is to say, Dazhong is a little bit taller than Daxia.

The Xia army withdrew from Shaanxi and returned the previously occupied Zhenwu City, Xi'an Prefecture, Linzhou Jianning Village, Huaide Army, Tiandu Village, and Lanzhou.

Dazhong admitted that the prefectures outside the Great Wall, such as Tiande and Yunnei, were summer lands.

The most important one is that the Chinese army withdrew from Hengshan and ceded Hengshan to Daxia. The two sides took Hengshan-Tiandu Mountain as the national boundary-in fact, the Chinese army did not have any troops in Hengshan, only Fuzhou Zhejia still guarded a few fortresses. In addition, the Western Song Army also occupied some Hengshan areas.

In addition, out of political and economic needs, the two sides opened a forum to carry out trade, and reopened the Silk Road, which had been cut off by Xixia for more than 100 years, and the trade between China and the West has been in full swing since then.

It can be said that this is a rare and great victory for Xixia diplomatic envoys.

Before this, Xixia had never received such a high degree of recognition, such a high nominal status.

Not to mention, Dazhong gave Xixia the most important mountain Hengshan.

It is precisely because of this that Xixia is very active in this alliance, and accompanied the three princesses Li Qinglu, Liang Xianxian, and Liang Shishi with a large amount of dowry - cattle and horses. Zhang, [-] pieces of Xixia porcelain, [-] catties of top-quality Helan stone, etc... In short, it is full of sincerity.

In addition to these, Xixia also sent [-] elite soldiers to attack Tiande, Yunnei and other places currently occupied by the Jin army.

Of course, it's not as simple as it seems on the surface.

The reason why Xixia fell to Dazhong was not only that Dazhong was stronger and more fierce, but also because the Jinren broke the contract and snatched back the Tiande, Yunnei and other places promised to Xixia, and then threw it to Xixia. , that is, northern Shaanxi, wanted to draw Xixia into the battle and muddy the water, which caused a lot of enmity between the two sides, and this was one of the reasons that prompted Xixia to form an alliance with Dazhong.

Unexpectedly, Li Yan didn't care about the gains and losses in name at all, and directly recognized Xixia as a country, and was willing to give something real (Hengshan Mountain, which Xixia people valued most), and then formed an alliance with Xixia.

Not much to say about the benefits Xixia has gained from the alliance between China and Xia, such as saving Xixia, having a powerful ally, gaining the status of a big country, being able to trade with big and medium-sized countries, and developing safely for a few years, etc., the benefits are real It's too much.

As far as Yu Dazhong is concerned, the alliance with Xixia is actually very important.

First of all, Dazhong temporarily stabilized his west side, and could draw out part of the west side of the army.

Secondly, Dazhong got Xia Jun's support, which has increased a lot both in terms of strength and deterrence.

In addition, Dazhong and the Southern Song Dynasty negotiated peace before, and the south has been stabilized for the time being, and some troops in the south can also be drawn out.

Now, Dazhong can finally let go and fight with Dajin to determine the ownership of Yanyun.

Li Yan quickly ordered that [-] troops be transferred from the southern and western routes to reinforce the northern route, and all the existing [-] reserve troops in Dazhong were transferred to the northern route to supplement the battle losses of the East Route Army and West Route Army.

In addition, Li Yan ordered the Ministry of War to recruit another 20 reserve troops to prepare for a protracted war.

From the formation Li Yan put on, anyone can see that Li Yan is bound to win Yan Yun!

At this juncture, envoys from the Kingdom of Jin came to Bianliang City, Tokyo...

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(End of this chapter)