Iron Dynasty

Xiao Ming signed the order to attack the British and French colonies. There is no major reason for the imperial decree to be used.

For some trivial orders, he is still used to signing documents.

Glancing at Cui Shangan, he said, How does it feel to be the chief of staff?

Thanks to the emperor's kindness, all this is bestowed by the emperor, and the last general's feeling is naturally grateful. Cui Shangan organized the language.

Xiao Ming smiled, We are a family, you are still my brother-in-law, so there is no need to say polite words.

Cui Shangan's heart was suddenly sweet as if it was filled with honey. Nothing was more important to him than this sentence. He was overwhelmed and said: Your Majesty...'

Hahaha, don't be nervous, I came to you today to formulate a war plan in Nanyang and make overall arrangements for the war. He handed over a plan he had drawn up to Cui Shangan.

Cui Shangan suppressed his excitement, took over the plan about Nanyang, and read it. On this piece of paper, he wrote the general direction of the attack, and more details still need to be perfected. After all, governing such a huge country, an emperor needs to deal with a lot of things. In government affairs, it is impossible to do everything in detail.

When I go back at the end of the day, I will organize the staff to formulate a battle plan and allocate materials and equipment. Cui Shangan said sternly, he cherished his current position and dared not make any negligence.

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction. In fact, he has been thinking about the use of Cui Shangan for a long time, and he has observed it for a long time. In fact, the suppression of Cui Shangan in the past few years was intentional. He just wanted to see Cui Shangan's temperament.

The result was satisfactory to him. Although Cui Shangan was a little disheartened because of this, he still did his duty and did not rely on his Huainan kingdom to provoke disputes.

After all, although the slashing of the clan was successful, if Cui Shangan had any orders, a large number of people would respond.

In terms of specific positions, Choi Sang-an is also conscientious, so he promoted Choi Sang-an after evaluation, but the General Staff Department looks very intimidating, in fact, it is just like his secretary in the army.

Cui Shangan has become his close minister, but he still has no military power in his hands, so there is nothing to worry about. In addition, the infighting in the court is getting worse and worse. He is unwilling to promote the person recommended by Pang Yukun, nor the person recommended by Fiji. People, only Choi Sang-an is the most suitable.

After all, Cui Shangan is also a relative of the royal family. He once participated in the crusade against King Yan, and King Zhao made great military exploits. Others can't say anything.

By the way, there is this! Xiao Ming picked up another signed order, This is for Qi Guangyi, the commander of the Northwest Military Region. Now that the lancers have taken shape, let him quickly go west to destroy the golden tent of the barbarians.

Yes, Your Majesty! Cui Shangan gave a military salute.

Xiao Ming nodded and then asked, Is King Huainan okay recently? I haven't seen him for a while.

Speaking of this, Cui Shangan was suddenly embarrassed, he said: My father has always been in good health, but recently I have been fascinated by dramas, and I go to the theater to listen to dramas every day in my spare time. However, something happened two days ago, and he gave an official to him beated.

The king of Huainan is old and strong, and his skills are the same as in the past. I have heard about this, and it is correct. Xiao Ming smiled. He just received a document yesterday, and the content of the document is to accuse the king of Huainan of beating people.

Since becoming emperor, Xiao Ming can no longer believe in memorials. As Concubine Zhen said, the most untrustworthy thing in this world is memorials.

The emperor was sitting in the palace, and the affairs of the world were left to the official's memorial, so he sent someone to investigate, and sure enough, the king of Huainan had indeed beaten someone.

But there was a reason for the incident. The cause of the incident was that the official's son was openly molesting the women in the theater, which provoked the King of Huainan to act.

Cui Shangan breathed a sigh of relief, and he knew that someone would definitely make a case.

After mentioning this matter, Xiao Ming asked Cui Shangan to go back. Over the years, he has been taking care of the South and the North, but his team has more and more problems.

He has to admit that this is the aftermath of his rapid development. In ten years, the country of Dayu has developed from a cold weapon country to an industrial country.

This kind of growth is too fast, and generally speaking, the faster it grows, the more problems will be ignored. Simply put, it means that people's thinking in this era lags behind the speed of national development, or that the quality of the people has not kept pace with development.

And this has caused the people to live in outdated ideas while enjoying the advanced material.

After all, the promotion of New Confucianism is most effective for those who have not yet accepted traditional ideas, and changes are limited to those who have been polluted by old ideas.

This is like the age gap of the age, just as the people in their 70s and 80s can't accept that they can't bear to see young people playing with their mobile phones all day long.

It is precisely because of this that the idea of ​​official standard is still strong in the empire, and the aristocracy of officials has always existed.

It is not just because of the incident of the King of Huainan that some officials' children are rampant and domineering.

This is still the case in Qingzhou, and the whole country does not know how many children of officials like this exist.

It's just that now he's attacking only the symptoms, not the root cause, because nearly 80% of the officials in the empire are former officials of the Great Yu Kingdom, especially in the south, receiving such a huge area, the School of Political Affairs is a drop in the bucket.

Now he can only wait for the growing new generation to replace them. Before that, he can only press with all his strength to prevent these people from causing worse effects.

Thinking of this, he specially instructed the Guard Office to arrest the troubled official's son. According to reason, it is ridiculous that he is an emperor who cares about such a small fact, but in order to remind the officials, he can only intervene in person.

Just as he was about to give orders to the guards, a Qian Dafu suddenly walked in and said, Your Majesty, Wang Xuan asks to see you.

Let him in.

Xiao Ming said that Wang Xuan has been building intelligence systems in Korea and Japan to deepen his control over these two areas.

Qian Dafu replied yes, turned around and went out, and shortly after Wang Xuan walked in.

After bowing and bowing, Wang Xuan said: Your Majesty, there have been some subtle changes in the Japanese country, which made the lower official a little uneasy, so I came here to report to the Emperor.

Tell me.

After pondering for a while, Wang Xuan said: The current Japanese civil unrest is on the rise, and now the rebels composed of farmers, merchants, and samurai classes have put forward the slogan of reform and asked Yamada Nobunaga to learn from the empire.

Reform. Xiao Ming frowned.

After the Japanese country signed the surrender document, the civil strife in the Japanese country has not stopped. Nobunaga Yamada has been suppressing the rebellion. He has not paid much attention to this. After all, the Japanese country has many famous names, and wars are common.

But now the rebels have put forward slogans similar to national reform, which is problematic, somewhat similar to the Meiji Restoration.