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The sun rises, and it's a new day.It is very cool in the early morning, which can ensure a clear mind when thinking.Gao Fei sat leisurely on the wooden chair in the house, with three books neatly placed on the table.These are the books that Gao Fei dug out from that box of books and thought they were the most useful.

Pick up one of them at random, and the title page of the book has the words "Kyushu Chronicles" written on it.Gao Fei is most familiar with this book, and there is no other reason, just because this book is one of the compulsory contents of the children's examination, a book on geography!Specifically talk about the style and features of Kaiyuan Kyushu.

Opening the somewhat worn cover, a slightly rough map was displayed in front of Gao Fei. Looking at this national map called 'Kyushu Travel Map', Gao Fei began to look through the memories that did not belong to him. Find everything about the geography of Kaiyuan Kyushu.

The shape of Kaiyuan Kingdom is like an open eye. The whole country is divided into nine state capitals, with Zhongzhou, where the capital Zhongdu is located, as the center of the circle, surrounded by the other eight state capitals.

Directly bordering Zhongzhou, which is located in the center like an eyeball, are Guazhou in the northwest, Minzhou in the southwest, Yanzhou in the northeast and Yuezhou in the southeast.Going further to the west, there are Cangzhou connected to Guazhou and Yunzhou connected to Minzhou, while to the east are Qingzhou connected to Yanzhou and Yizhou connected to Yuezhou.

Looking at this picture, several places caught Gao Fei's attention. The first is Cangzhou, which is located in the northwest corner. As the westernmost point of Kaiyuan, it directly communicates with Kaiyuan and the entire vast Western Region.After passing the last checkpoint at the west end——Jiaqing Pass, the vast Wanas prairie is outside the pass, and after crossing the prairie and going west, there is no end to the desert. From the perspective of Gao Fei's future generations, Such a geographical location is both an opportunity and a challenge. Of course, the challenge is the Qiang Yuan barbarians in Luo Shuyu’s mouth. They live next to the Ma people, and their military strength is not strong enough. Neighborhood has one of the biggest benefits, that is unlimited business opportunities!

Gao Fei looked at this area of ​​the Western Regions. In the entire Vanas prairie, there were three largest tribes, namely Qiangyuan, Rouran and Manzhen. They are very gentle, they live on pastures, and they seem to be indifferent to the world. Doing business with this kind of tribe can exchange for high-quality fur and strong cattle and sheep with a little salt and tea.And there should be a lot of small countries living in oases in the desert. From Gao Fei's point of view, such small countries are generally home to people with a lot of money and a lot of gems and gold. They will undoubtedly be the biggest buyers of some high-end consumer goods. Home, if you can do business with them...

Gao Fei shook his head, and stopped the unrealistic YY.His eyes turned to Yunzhou below Cangzhou. This state capital is also very special because it is the only area in Kaiyuan where foreigners live together—the settlement of Miao people!This is also the only place that aroused Gao Fei's interest. After looking at it twice, Gao Fei turned his attention to the east end of the map without seeing any other special places.

As Lin Yuchun said, there are three state capitals of Qingzhou, Yizhou and Yuezhou in the east facing the sea, and there are also unlimited business opportunities in sea trade, but this is not the place that interests Gao Fei the most. , and finally pointed to an island in the southeastern region of the entire Kaiyuan Continent.

Looking at the area named 'East Pole Islands', Gao Fei showed a playful smile.It turns out that the Kaiyuan Kingdom had only seven state capitals at the beginning, but a small country called Nanchen was located in the corner of Yuezhou and Yizhou. Included in Kaiyuan's territory.It's a pity that they were not completely wiped out. A small group of survivors of the Chen family fled to the East Pole Islands. Taking advantage of the convenience of the sea, they played hide-and-seek with the Kaiyuan Navy. Although a tear mole is extremely annoying, it takes a lot of money to get rid of it.

Slowly closing "Kyushu Chronicles", Gao Fei finally had a preliminary understanding of the country he was in.He raised his eyes and looked at the two remaining books on the table, one was "The Official History of the Kaiyuan", and the other was "The Legend of the Heroes of the Kaiyuan". It was Gao Fei's habit to read the official history and the unofficial history together, because it could read both books. As evidenced by this, Gao Fei jumped directly to the part describing the Taizu Emperor after flipping through the two history books.

The full name of this Taizu is Ji Taizu. He is the third emperor of the Ji Dynasty. The founding of the Kaiyuan Kingdom has reached the fifth generation. Among the previous emperors, he is the most outstanding one. Military and religious five aspects to summarize.

Politically, he reformed the administration of officials, abolished the post of prime minister, and introduced the system of three provinces and six ministries.With his support, the four great families of Zhang, Yuan, Xu and Wei stood out from the original eight great families and became the four most prominent clans in Kaiyuan, and also became the biggest guarantee for defending his royal power; economically, he improved the status of merchants and advocated agriculture, industry and commerce. The three peoples are equal, and vigorously develop commerce; culturally, he has plagiarized the essence of 5000 years of Chinese literature in all aspects.Established academies in various states to develop education and implemented the imperial examination system; in religion, Taoism was promoted as the state religion; in military affairs, a new method of military training was implemented, and two strong armies led by Zhang and Yuan were built.

Among these achievements, what Gao Fei admires the most is his political and military achievements, because at the beginning of Taizu's accession to the throne, the country was in an extremely turbulent stage. Incidents happened repeatedly, and Chen Xiaoguo in the south of the east was also ready to move. It is conceivable how much challenge this 12-year-old emperor has to face.

As soon as he ascended the throne, he issued several seemingly weak but very smart decrees. One was to appease the Miao people in Yunzhou, promote the equality of all ethnic groups, change the people's perception of them as aliens, and increase communication with them in culture and business. The second is to negotiate peace with the Qiang Yuan people by donating a large amount of property every year; the third is to marry a princess far away and make peace with Nanchen!These few actions undoubtedly made him bear the notoriety of being a faint king for a while, but they stabilized the situation on the periphery of Kaiyuan Kingdom to the greatest extent.

So Taizu, who freed up his hands, started drastic reforms, and finally, after more than ten years of forbearance, he suddenly launched an attack.First, relying on strong military power, Nan Chen was driven to the island.In order to truly unify the entire continent, his next target is undoubtedly the Qiang Yuan people who are raging in Cangzhou.He first blatantly tore up the humiliating agreement with the Qiangyuan people, and when the angry barbarian cavalry rushed into Jiaqingguan, he sent the troops led by the head of the Zhang family to encircle and suppress.

It's a pity that this great monarch failed to complete his plan in the end, and died suddenly before the Zhang family army started the war with the Qiang Yuan people!Ended his life at the young age of 32.

After watching the legendary life of Taizu this season, Gao Fei was silent for a long time. Gao Fei was deeply shocked by the supernatural powers of this traverser.Closing his eyes, Gao Fei spent three seconds remembering this wise and courageous politician, talented king, and extremely daring... gay!

That's right, it's gay!This is the only interesting part that Gao Fei dug out from the entire boring historical document.In fact, the Xing orientation of this Taizu is very easy to identify, because he didn't mean to hide it at all, and he openly promulgated the law to open the door for himself.This is the "Brothers' Law" that has been criticized by later generations.

What is the "Brother Brother Law", simply put, it is a law that allows two men to get married!This is undoubtedly extremely deviant in the ancient times that attached great importance to future generations, but Taizu Ji didn't care about these things, he pushed the decree against all opinions, and even married a male queen!And he was loyal, and never filled the harem again in his life!

After recalling the erotic message of this fellow traveler, Gao Fei picked up the book again and looked at the life of Emperor Gaozong, the successor of the Great Ancestor.The first thing that catches the eye is the Zhang's rebellion mentioned by Luo Shuyu.Goofy saw the official account of this historic event.

It turned out that the sudden death of the great ancestor left one of the biggest problems is heirs.Of course the male empress could not give birth to any heirs, so the panicked veterans finally had to choose a recent bloodline from the clan to be the emperor, and this was Ji Gaozong!Since Gaozong's throne was completely picked up, when his assistant came to the throne, he faced doubts from the ruling and opposition parties.

In terms of calmness, Gaozong obviously can't compare with Taizu this season. In order to keep the throne, the only way he can think of in a panic is to hold the army tightly in his hands!Therefore, at the beginning of Gaozong's accession to the throne this season, he also issued two decrees, ordering the Yuan family army who was resting in Yanzhou and the Zhang family army who was fighting in Cangzhou to quickly lead their troops back to Yuanzhou to assemble, and hand over the tiger talisman of the army!

And this was the turning point of the matter. After receiving the order, the Yuan family cooperated and handed over the command of the army.But the Zhang family is not the case, openly disobeying orders, and even colluding with the Qiang Yuan barbarians, intending to subvert the orthodoxy of the Ji family!So, after using force to quell the voices of doubt.Emperor Gaozong was furious, and sent General Yuan, who is now Yuan Ge, to send troops to bury the Zhang family and a large number of Qiang and Yuan barbarians on the land of Cangzhou!

Looking at this period of history, there are several places that aroused Gao Fei's doubts.First of all, the process of the Zhang family's collusion with the Qiang Yuan people is only mentioned in the history books, which is too vague; secondly, it is the questioning of the Zhang family's rebellion itself.Just because the time and place of this rebellion were not chosen correctly.In terms of time, the sudden death of Taizu was an unexpected event, and it is said that the Zhang family could not have foreseen this, so this rebellion can only be a temporary idea of ​​the head of the Zhang family after receiving the decree, which is too hasty up.As for the location, the only purpose of a large family's rebellion was for the descendants of the Mengyin clan. At that time, all the family members of the Zhang family were in Zhongdu, so it was extremely unreasonable to launch a rebellion at the risk of their clan being killed!The Zhang family association described in the unofficial history with the family motto of "protecting the family and defending the country" colluded with foreigners is also not convincing.

But Gao Fei understands that history is always written only by the victors, and only true witnesses can know how dirty and bloody it is.

Putting aside this history that has little to do with him, Gao Fei continued to turn back. Unlike the amazing and talented Taizu, this Gaozong really had nothing to show for his political achievements in his life, and some of the things he released In Gao Fei's eyes, the order was even more insane.

First of all, he abolished Taizu's strategy of appeasing the Miao people in Yunzhou for nearly 20 years, treating them as second-class citizens, prohibiting them from doing business with other states in Kaiyuan, and requiring them to pay heavy taxes year after year.Second, the country is closed to the outside world, foreign trade is prohibited, the coastal areas are prohibited from entering the sea, and the inland areas are prohibited from leaving the country with horses.Thirdly, at the place where Gao Fei was stunned, this Ji Gaozu distributed a large number of taxes that should have been nationalized and allocated to the local governments, ordering them to collect and use them for their own use!

Regarding the third point, Gao Fei could vaguely guess the emperor's irresponsible thoughts.He probably thought that it would be too troublesome to collect the money and then send it down, so he collected the amount he thought he needed, and he was not responsible for the rest.

Of course, this kind of thinking can only be summed up as "stupid", because in the absence of effective supervision, the only possibility for the local government to handle large sums of money is to breed corruption.However, how much money the country needs to spend each year cannot be a fixed number. Such an approach will only strain the central government’s finances and greatly reduce the regulation of the national economy. That is to say, if this approach continues, the central government’s lack of money will become inevitable!

The first two decrees, the former planted the root of internal conflicts and the latter closed the possibility of Kaiyuan's foreign exchanges.

After a hasty look at the emperor who has been in power for nearly 30 years, he has not made any major achievements.Gao Fei finally turned to the part describing the current monarch of Kaiyuan Kingdom, Emperor Dexing.Just as he was about to read on, the front of his clothes was suddenly pulled.

Gao Fei raised his head from the book, but saw Yue Luansheng was looking at him with dissatisfaction, put down the book, Gao Fei scratched the little guy's nose with a smile and asked, "What's wrong with Luaner?"

"Daddy, I'm hungry, when will I have lunch?" Yue Luansheng asked loudly.

Only then did Gao Fei notice that it was already noon before he knew it. He raised his eyes to look at Yue Qinlian who was on the side. At this moment, Yue Xiaomei was concentrating on her netting. When she noticed Gao Fei's gaze, she raised her eyes and smiled and said, "That's right, brother Let's go cook."

The aunt and nephew came early in the morning, they said they came to see him, they stayed in his hut all morning and didn't go back, and now they have to eat, but after what happened yesterday, Gao Fei also vaguely knew the reason for this, Thinking about the flour sent by Housekeeper Luo, he said to Yue Luansheng, "How about we make silver rolls for lunch?"

Yue Luansheng didn't know what this silver thread roll was for food, but the food made by his father was always delicious, so he couldn't help cheering, and followed Gao Fei into the kitchen. Yue Qinlian smiled and watched the interaction between the two of them for a while, He put his energy into the net in his hand again.

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