The World of Yellow Sky

Although he knew it was a tentative troop quota, Xu You was still a little surprised.

And all the generals and officials in the hall were also surprised, and their expressions were full of doubts and puzzles.

Xu You took a peek around, and he found that only Jia Xu and those heavy-numbered generals were still calm and composed. Apparently Xu An had already informed the people in the Zhongjun Mansion about this and other heavy-numbered generals. This may have been agreed upon together. the result of.

Xu You's eyes were slightly fixed, and he didn't stop talking. He continued to read the follow-up arrangements and arrangements, but he was thinking rapidly in his heart.

He remembered that after Xu An defeated Han Ting, he mentioned the matter of opening the sea many times, transferred part of the Haidong Fleet and Liaodong Fleet to the south, built a new port, and formed an ocean-going fleet.

The map of southern Xinjiang slowly emerged in Xu You's mind, and Xu You's expression was solemn.

He knew that Xu An would probably not allow those Piao and Panyue countries to exist independently in the future.

I am afraid that apart from the Southern Xinjiang Province, the current Daming will have one more province in the south.

919 Chapter Shangwu

In the Xuanzheng point, all the civil and military officials were thinking secretly.

Some are eager to try and have high fighting spirit, some have twinkling eyes and seem to be missing, while others are frowning and worrying.

Xu An sat on the purple seat, scanning the various civil and military officials in the hall, paying attention to their expressions.

The situation below is clear at a glance. Those who are eager to try and have high fighting spirit are mostly generals, and most of them are middle-level generals at the level of military commanders and school lieutenants.

Return the horse to the sun of Huashan, and herd the cattle in the wild of the peach forest.

Putting swords and guns into the warehouse, stopping the war, and recuperating with the people are the expectations of everyone, but for warriors like them, there is no way to reap military exploits without war.

In peaceful years, if you want to become a general, you need to rely on seniority, contacts, and various things.

But either way, it takes a long time.

The Ming army is a young team, from the youngest to the oldest, who are only in their forties. Many ordinary soldiers are in their 30s and 30s, including these military lords and school lieutenants. Most of them are in their early 40s. , rare [-]-year-old person.

As the head of the generals, Gong Du is only 42 years old now, and all the generals of the Ming army are also 34 years old, and they are in their prime.

They defeated powerful enemies one after another, and all opponents, whether it was the Huns, the Xianbei, or the Han and Wei courts, were defeated in their hands.

Their fighting spirit is high, their fighting spirit is high, and it is the time of high spirits.

They have all entered the Taipingdao military academy and experienced the study of the military academy, and even the outstanding ones have entered the lecture hall to learn tactics and knowledge.

They are not ignorant of the world, they know that there are many countries and many land boundaries in this world, and they know how vast this world is.

They know that China only occupies a part of it now, and further west, there is still an extremely vast land.

Some places have already been taken by other countries, and some places have not even been set foot.

It's fine if you didn't know it before, but now that you know all this, how can you be calm and composed.

Throughout the dynasties, those who opened up the frontiers and lands are all famous in the history and admired by all.

The sound can be entrusted to the string pipe, the name can be left on the bamboo silk, and you can be named a marquis and a general, this is a real man!

The Xianbei was destroyed, the three tribes of the Northern Land were subordinated, and the Dongyi surrendered. The overall situation of the overseas Yidao was settled, the threats from the east and the north had been eliminated, and there was no way to continue to expand.

If you want to continue to expand, you must travel across the ocean.

So their eyes were all on the Western Regions and Southern Borders.

There are large tracts of unclaimed land in southern Xinjiang, along with a group of archipelagos, and there is a huge island in the far south.

All the generals in the navy sequence wanted to go to those places to take a good look after they knew about it.

In the farther west of the Western Regions, there is an incomparably vast land, and there is even a unified country called Rome.The territory of its country is quite large, and even a sea is enclosed, which is called the inland sea of ​​its country.

Even its monarch even proclaimed himself the supreme ruler, such an act is simply ridiculous.

On the battlefield, they have to use swords and guns to educate these Yelang arrogant people to weigh their own importance.

There may be all nations in the world, but only China once!

Wherever the sun and the moon shine, and where the rivers and rivers come, it is the land of light.

This time, the Western Region Military Region was set up, with a fixed number of [-] troops. Xu Ansuo's intention to advance westward made them feel excited.

Those whose eyes twinkled and seemed to be missing were mostly high-ranking military generals, that is, those generals who followed Xu An's side very early.

People such as Guo Tai, He Man, Zhang Yang, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, etc., the reason why they are thinking and their eyes are flickering is not because they have no desire for military achievements, but because they are hesitating.

Their military achievements are enough to make them have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives, and even live a very comfortable life, but the temptation to go further makes them extremely hesitant.

They are considering whether they should take the initiative to fight and go to the Western Regions or the Southern Borders.

Frowning, most of the people who worry about Zhong Zhong are civil servants, and their thinking is different from that of generals.

The advantage of the separation of civil and military affairs is that after the functions of the two parties are sealed, it will be more systematic, so that the responsibilities will no longer be confused, the military will be in charge of the military, and the government will be in charge of the government.

But the disadvantage is that after the separation of civil and military affairs, opinions are often at odds, because the interests of the two parties are also different in many places.

The Ming Dynasty established the country with martial arts, and the style of martial arts prevailed, while the style of writing declined.

Most of those with excellent grades have the ambition to enter the Taipingdao Military Academy. Although Shiqu and Tianlu Academy are located in Yingtian Mansion, they are still only second-class choices.

In the court, a group of generals held far more power than the civil officials. Many civil officials were military generals themselves, and they had the same idea as the generals.

Today's Ming Kingdom is actually a military country in essence. Last year, three-quarters of Ming Kingdom's annual fiscal revenue was spent on the military, and the large amount of money collected from the powerful families was also used on the military. superior.

Among the six workshops in Chang'an City, only one workshop is a civilian workshop, and the remaining five are military workshops. Among these military workshops, there is still no sign of suspension or transformation after the end of the war. A large number of crafted armaments and weapons.

The difference from before is that the artisans no longer need to work overtime, slow down a bit, and return to normal life.

Shipbuilding factories also began to be built in Jiaozhou, Yangzhou, Nanjiang and other places, and a large number of new warships began to be built.

Coupled with the fact that the new military region is now established, all these make the middle-level civilian officials feel worried.

The world has experienced more than ten years of turmoil, and thousands of people died in this catastrophe.

The bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no cock crowing for thousands of miles.

Now that the world is united and the world is peaceful, both the Han, Wei and Xianbei are in the past tense. Today's Ming is the most powerful country in the world, and there are no enemies in the Quartet that can threaten them.

Now should be the time for the horse to release to Nanshan, the time to recuperate.

They have learned history in county studies and Chinese studies, know about the fall of the pre-Qin period, and also know about the past events in the Han and Wu period.

During the period of Emperor Wu, martial arts were excellent, but his extravagance was limitless, and his soldiers were extremely poor, which made the people exhausted and exhausted, causing frequent accidents in the country, but they were unable to solve them. The people at that time were very poor.

Now Xu An is very similar to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in many ways, with the same great talent and strategy, and the same emphasis on military affairs, maybe...

repeat the same mistakes...

Xu An sat on the purple seat and had a panoramic view of the expressions of everyone in the Xuanzheng Hall.

Among the thousands of people in the Xuanzheng Hall, only Yan Zhong was calm and composed, and his expression did not fluctuate much.

Xu An withdrew his gaze from the civil and military officials and stood up.

Xu You knowingly put away the imperial edict in his hand, he knew that Xu An had something to say.

Xu An stepped down from Bibi Dan and walked to the place where Xu You was standing before.

Xu An didn't make too many changes to the original layout of the Xuanzheng Hall, but changed the original throne to a purple one, and the Dan Bi was also lowered a lot.

The most change is actually to set up a facility under Majesty Dan, which is similar to the speech platform of later generations, with special speakers on it for sound amplification.

"Northern Territory, Anxi, Nanyang."

Xu An's eyes drifted away from the crowd.

"Although the Northern Territory is established, there are many remaining tribes. In the past, Hanwu expelled the Xiongnu to the north, but in less than a hundred years, Xianbei was replaced."

"During the former Han Dynasty, Xianbei repeatedly violated the frontiers, and the border counties of You, Bing, and Liangzhou were copied by Xianbei bandits, killing countless people."

"The establishment of the Northern Region Military Region is to prevent this from happening again."

For thousands of years, the wars between China and the nomadic tribes in the north have almost never ended.

In other words, this war lasted for thousands of years.

Now taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to finally occupy the vast land of the Northern Territory, Xu An naturally didn't want to give up.

The southern Xiongnu were removed from their names, and now they have gradually integrated into the Han land. Wuhuan of the three counties and Wuhuan of Shanggu also gradually moved south, learning Chinese, using Chinese surnames, and speaking Chinese.

The Xianbei and other tribes were all moved into the Central Plains as captives. Xu An's next plan is to recruit a large number of villagers from the Central Plains to the Northland, and turn the pastures there into Chinese pastures.

Not only that, those remaining tribes all need to have their hair tied right, learn Chinese, use Chinese surnames, and speak Chinese.

To lead all of this naturally requires military assistance, which is why Xu An set up a military region in the Northland.

"The northern military region is for maintaining stability."

"The establishment of the Anxi and Nanyang military regions is for expansion."

Xu An's voice was deep and deep, but with the addition of the loudspeaker, everyone in the Xuanzheng Hall could hear it clearly.

One stone stirred up thousands of waves, and all the civil and military officials in the Xuanzheng Hall raised their heads, and their eyes were all focused on Xu An. Although they knew it clearly in their hearts, what they said from Xu An's mouth still made them Feel the shock.

"I know that many of you feel that the world has been settled and the world is in peace. It is time to rest and recuperate with the people. It is not appropriate to use weapons and waste people's money."

"I think so too."

Xu An's words contradicted each other. He just talked about expansion, but then he said a truce with the people.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing why.

When Xu An said these words, he knew that everyone in the hall would react in this way.

"The world is in constant turmoil, and all people in the world are looking forward to the arrival of a peaceful world."

"But in fact, war and peace, the two do not conflict."

Xu An knocked heavily on the desk in front of him.

The dull sound echoed in the Xuanzheng Hall, and the sound echoed in everyone's chest and ears, making everyone feel a strange feeling in their hearts.

"Wars in the west and south are burning on the frontiers, but the country is still stable."

"I know what everyone is thinking. You are thinking, even though this is the case, if you want to continue to expand, military expenditures will also continue to expand. These military expenditures will eventually be borne by the common people, which will naturally increase their burden. Those who join the army, Casualties and deaths are inevitable."

After Xu An looked around at the people in the hall, he paused.

Regarding the establishment of a military region and continuing to expand the territory, he was actually very hesitant at first.

The main theme of war is bloodshed and sacrifice. Once the victory is over, the bones will be wiped out. The victory of the war is often only exchanged for the death of thousands, or even tens of thousands of people.

And now the territory of the Ming Kingdom has almost reached a limit, which is really too big.

The range is so large that it takes a very long time to send a message, even if it is an urgent [-] li, and it does not spare any horsepower to gallop all the way to the capital.

Regarding frontier matters, it was often too late when Chang An received them.

The order of the Ministry of Industry is to set up a post station every [-] to [-] miles, and in many places there is no condition to set up a post station every [-] or [-] miles.

If a post station is really set up according to this standard under such a vast territory, it would be an astronomical sum just to maintain the post station.

However, as long as there are research workshops for these problems, they will not be a problem in the near future.

"Although the old country is big, it will perish if it is warlike; however, although the world is safe, if you forget the war, you will be in danger."

Xu An's eyes narrowed slightly, and he spoke again.

"This world is vast and vast, and there are countless lands as fertile as my Ming Dynasty, and the countries that exist on its land may be far inferior to ours now."

"But it's not as good as it was before, it's not as good as it is now, and in the future?"

"In the future, in the future, who of you in the palace dare to say that it will be a thousand years later?"

Xu An stopped speaking, sometimes silence has power, and it is not a small power.

Everyone in the hall was lost in thought, they were all thinking about Xu An's words.

"As long as war exists, bloodshed and sacrifice cannot be avoided."

"Although the world is safe, if you forget the battle, you will be in danger."

"My Ming Dynasty can have today's territory, what is it relying on?"

"It depends on the sacrifice of countless soldiers and the bloody battle of countless soldiers."

"How do you think such a vast territory can be defended without a strong army?"

Xu An's sharp eyes swept over everyone, and all the civil and military officials felt like a light was on their backs, and felt a chill in their hearts.

His question fell on everyone's minds, and it also aroused everyone's reaction. Those civil servants who were originally somewhat resistant were even moved by it.