The heavens start from Quanzhen swordsmanship

Chapter 137 Wu Guoli, the situation of the Three Kingdoms

In the second year of Lizong Baoyou in the Southern Song Dynasty,
The Fengxiang Mansion, Pingliang Mansion, and Lanzhou that originally belonged to Mongolia were taken down by the Daowu Army.

At the end of the next year of Baoyou, the Guanzhong Second and Third Armies joined forces to take down the Central Plains.

In just one year, the territory in Guanzhong has more than tripled in size.

Even in Mongolia, which was fighting for the Khan throne, there was no civil strife for a while.

Kublai Khan stationed troops outside the Central Plains, trying to curb the expansion of the Daowu army.

Among them, Brother Ali, came with troops and wanted to regain the lost land.

Instead, the Southern Song Dynasty, which was previously attacked by Mongolia, was on the sidelines.

In Jingzhao City, Xu Zhiqing sat firmly at the back. Apart from dealing with people's livelihood, he spent more time practicing martial arts.

In the main hall, Xu Zhiqing received the battle report from Guo Jing, knowing that he had successfully liberated the land of the Central Plains.

There was a look of joy on his face.

The larger the territory, the more resources, the faster the development.

Another thing worth mentioning is that the head teacher Boqiu Chuji ordered Zhen Zhibing to lead a team to search for sweet potatoes, corn and other crops, and there was good news.

In Xu Zhiqing's view, everything is moving in a good direction.

In addition to the good news, the most unpleasant thing is that brother Ali finally couldn't sit still at the back and led the troops to come.

Xu Zhiqing didn't know what kind of person Alibu was, he probably couldn't compare to Kublai Khan.

I don't know if he is a good talker!

Brother Ali's mobilization caused panic in the newly conquered territory.

After all, everyone saw the tyranny of Mongolia, and they were worried that the Daowu Army would not be able to withstand it.

If Xu Zhiqing was just an ordinary citizen, he would also have such worries.

But he wouldn't go head-to-head with Brother Ali. Generally, when their Daowu army joined the battlefield, the opponent's high-level generals were killed all over the place.

The Daowu Army used to be just the straw that broke the camel's back.

The role of the Dao Wu Army is more to recruit the opponent's surrendered soldiers, and to restrain those who take advantage of the chaos to commit crimes.

After Xu Zhiqing read the battle report, besides the Mongolian soldiers in the past, the officials standing below him also had some Han faces.

For a year, the situation in Guanzhong was watched by many people.

Therefore, Xu Zhiqing also recruited some talents.

Xu Zhiqing was not too soft on the people who were not very suitable for occupying the position before. Those who should give way should be given up, and those who should be killed should be killed.

He put away the battle report and glanced at the officials below.

In the end, his eyes fell on Yelu Chucai and Lu Zhijia.

"Let's talk about rest first. Two months ago, our second and third armies took down the Central Plains!"

His words brought joy to the faces of the officials below.

The Central Plains has a large amount of land, especially the climate in that place is particularly suitable for planting.

If they win the Central Plains, their capital in Guanzhong will be much stronger.

"The good news is this, and the bad news is that Brother Ali has dispatched [-] soldiers. In addition to trying to regain Pingliang and Fengxiang, he wants to destroy our emerging power!"

His words shocked the ministers below again, a hundred thousand troops.

Isn't that similar to when we attacked the Song Dynasty?

They don't have much background in Guanzhong. How can they survive the attack of a [-] army?
After Xu Zhiqing finished speaking, he cast his eyes on the officials below, and asked softly, "I don't know if you have any good strategies to defeat the enemy?"

After he finished asking, the officials below were silent for a while.

It's not that they choose to remain silent, but that most of the officials belong to the people's livelihood, and they don't understand if they are asked to fight!

Xu Zhiqing had already expected it, after all, he knew the people he recruited.

He felt a little pity, why can't these people be omnipotent?
He thinks about it and thinks too much, how can there be so many all-around talents
Even Guo Jing is not an all-around talent.

Xu Zhiqing didn't get an answer from these people, and finally looked at Yelu Chucai.

At the same time, what he thought in his heart was that more military talents should be cultivated.

Otherwise, when the time comes to encounter an invasion, there will be no one who can carry the tripod.

Not to mention anything else, don't look at the poor physique of the Southern Song Dynasty, but some of the generals can still fight when they are pulled out.

But it is a pity that the current Southern Song Dynasty is basically a foolish emperor and treacherous ministers.

It's a pity that Xu Zhiqing didn't want to be an enemy on both sides, so he didn't choose to attack the Southern Song Dynasty.

It's just that in his heart, the Southern Song Dynasty is already prepared in the kitchen, and sooner or later it will become a dish on the table.

When Xu Zhiqing was thinking about this, he was also waiting for Yelu Chucai's answer.

But Yelu Chucai didn't answer, and asked him instead.

"Pavilion Master, compared to this, I think we should have a new name in Guanzhong?"

These words made Xu Zhiqing's heart twitch. He knew what Yelu Chucai meant, which was to let him be crowned emperor.

In the past, there were only Guanzhong sites, which seemed relatively small.

It doesn't matter if they don't have a name to the outside world. Now that the territory has grown all of a sudden, others only call them Guan Zhongjun.

and not the other.

For example, the Song Dynasty is the Song Dynasty, and Mongolia is Mongolia.

Xu Zhiqing has also thought about this matter, and he can indeed call the country.

He thought about this, and the officials below suddenly bowed down.

"I invite the pavilion master to be the emperor!"

Yelu Chucai also walked in front of the officials, and then slowly bowed down.

Seeing this scene, Xu Zhiqing waved his hands: "Everyone, get up first, what you said is indeed going to be finalized!"

"In addition, if I become an emperor like the Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia, will Guanzhong be mine in the future?"

Guan Zhong was done well by him, but he didn't want to be tied up by Guan Zhong.

His words made the officials below a little confused.

Isn't Guanzhong the Pavilion Master's?
Isn't the Pavilion Master the Lord of Guanzhong?

Could it be that there are others?

Seeing everyone's confused faces, Xu Zhiqing didn't need to explain.

Many of his words, probably only Yelu Chucai can understand a little bit, and it is limited to a few.

In their minds, isn't it their own private property?
It was as if the ministers like them all obeyed Xu Zhiqing's orders.

One word lives, one word dies.

Invisibly, these people put Xu Zhiqing above the law.

He didn't explain it, but it really should have a name for the outside world.

He glanced over the group of officials below, and finally landed on Yelu Chucai again.

"Xiangguo, please choose a good day, it's really time for our Guanzhong to establish a country!"

Yelu Chucai, who was kneeling on the ground, trembled slightly because he was excited.

There was joy on his face.

"Sir, take the lead!"

When Xu Zhiqing heard Yelu Chucai's words, he felt his body go numb, which immediately put him in the position of emperor.

He is currently only the supreme leader of the country, and the country is not just his.

"Okay, everyone, please get up!"

"Also, there will be no more etiquette of kneeling and worshiping in the future!"

"Whoever kneels down is kneeling to the sky, kneeling to the ground, and kneeling to parents and elders for their kindness!"

"Since the law is the core of our Guanzhong, then everything should be based on the law! Even if it's me, I don't have any privileges!"

Xu Zhiqing asked someone to promulgate the law. If he didn't take the lead, who would take the law seriously?

In the current Guanzhong, the various rights and interests of the people can basically be guaranteed.

Anyone who dares to violate the laws of Guanzhong will be officially punished.

After he said this lightly, he asked these people to stand up.

People in the Jianghu didn't bow down very much, basically they all bowed down to their masters and elders.

In this dynasty, is it going to be like this?

Xu Zhiqing was not used to it.

His side is fundamentally different from the Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia.

I have been standing here in Guanzhong for a long time, will I still get used to bowing my head and kneeling when I go to the Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia in the future?
After he gave Yelu Chucai the day to choose the name of the dynasty, he no longer cared about it, but continued to discuss the next development of Guanzhong.

Xu Zhiqing didn't wait too long for the national title.

The date was quickly determined, the next year, the second day of February.

That is, the third year of Emperor Lizong Baoyou in the Southern Song Dynasty, the second day of February.

Celebrities in Yelu Chucai wrote letters and sent them to Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia.

I want them to celebrate together, Guan Zhong Li Guo.

In addition, when Yelu Chucai was still thinking about the name of the country, Xu Zhiqing directly decided on Wu.

Later it will be the Kingdom of Wu.

All forces in the world soon received the news that the Quanzhen sect was going to establish the Wu Kingdom.

The disciples of the Quanzhen Sect also celebrated incomparably.

They do know that the Emperor of Wu Kingdom is their chief senior brother.

The court of the Southern Song Dynasty sent people to send gifts to celebrate after they received the time when Wu Guo established the country.

According to their thinking, with this so-called Wu Kingdom at the forefront, Mongolia would not spare energy to fight them.

Therefore, they are very willing to support Wu Guoli.

There is another point, that is, the Southern Song Dynasty sneered at the system of Wu State.

Distributing the acquired land to those people who don't know anything?
What can those people do?
Where can it compare to the family?
Being an official in the Southern Song Dynasty, more or less has his own power behind him.

On the contrary, some honest officials and good generals became silent after they learned about Wu Guo's policy.

If the court of the Southern Song Dynasty dared to learn Wu Guo, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty might be the first to refuse.

There are also people with equal rights, how many fertile land they and their relatives have occupied.

That policy is simply asking for their names.

Wu Guo's policy did not go out much in the Southern Song Dynasty.

That's because of the Southern Song Dynasty's restrictions on the Wu Kingdom.

In the minds of those people in the hinterland of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was no concept of Wu Kingdom at all.

On the contrary, where the two countries are in contact, there is more or less such a concept.

Such as Hanzhong, such as Sichuan and so on.

The people in these places have heard of some policies of the Wu Kingdom, and they are particularly envious of the people of the Wu Kingdom.

Because they have their own land.

In addition to allocating land to foreign countries, Wu Guo will also open up wasteland accordingly.

All the land that can be reclaimed will be cultivated by the people themselves.

In addition, Guanzhong does not have much taxation for the people, but instead provides strong support.

To be precise, there are clear regulations in Wu Kingdom's documents on farming for the people.

In the first few years, the taxation will be slightly heavier, and in the later period, it will be weaker.

In addition, all major industries in Wu Kingdom are controlled by Wu Kingdom itself.

Xu Zhiqing relies more on professional talents for the operation of a country.

For example, the currency of the Wu Kingdom, Xu Zhiqing knew the importance of the currency system, so he asked Yelu Chucai and some people to find talents who could mint currency.

Xu Zhiqing always gathers all kinds of talents, planting, breeding and so on.

The Wu Kingdom does not refuse any talent.

Xu Zhiqing didn't stay in the hall all day to deal with things, he also had his own private space.

On weekdays, he doesn't have much personal space, and he is always by the side of Xiaolongnv and Cheng Jiayao.

That is to accompany the two to practice exercises, plant flowers and plants and the like.

The days are plain and happy.

Time flies to the second day of February.

A few days ago, Guo Jing, Shi Zhilei, Yelujin and others who were at the border came to Jingzhao City after arranging military affairs.

They are not worried about the enemy breaking in.

They liberated these places basically without much effort.

Not to mention the enemy coming in, the enemies on the border are all in a defensive posture and dare not attack Wu country at all.

On this day, Xu Zhiqing wore a yellow robe and took the name of Wu Kingdom.

There will be no other numbers in the future, with Yuan as the first year, and then one year, two years, three years and so on.

It's not like in the Southern Song Dynasty, after changing the emperor, just get a year name.

After Xu Zhiqing announced the establishment of the Wu Kingdom, he set the second day of February as the National Day of the country.

According to the national practice in the Southern Song Dynasty, this kind of nation-building should be amnesty.

In Xu Zhiqing's place, there was no such thing.

There is no amnesty for anyone who violates a crime except that those who behave well will have their sentences reduced.

But on this day, those prisoners were allowed to eat two more corn buns.

Xu Zhiqing established the Wu Kingdom, and he called him Emperor Wu.

And establish titles at various levels.

He uses the levels of country, government, county, town, and township.

Positions are divided into principal positions and deputy positions.

He just established the ranks and titles first, but did not directly implement them uniformly, but slowly changed them.

Because Wu State is fundamentally different from other countries, some officials in Wu State still think about the scenes of those officials in the Southern Song Dynasty.

When these officials go out, the people in Wu's country still bow down.

Because when they were ruled by Mongolia, they had to kneel down when they saw those officials.

After kneeling for a long time, even if they were told not to kneel, no one dared not to kneel.

Xu Zhiqing didn't force this, because there were still some officials who were also afraid of him and couldn't help but kneel to him.

He also took his time, not in a hurry.

Policies come slowly.

For example, he is Emperor Zhengwu, and he originally wanted to make Yelu Chucai the title of Deputy Emperor Wu.

Immediately frightened Yelu Chucai half to death.

Even if he is a job, Yelu Chucai simply got sick and asked for leave to stay at home and dare not come out.

Therefore, Xu Zhiqing didn't insist anymore.

If it wasn't too far-fetched, he wanted to directly establish a republic and move the national team from another world over.

He didn't move directly, because he was worried that the climate would not acclimatize, and the Wu Kingdom would collapse directly.

Not directly, but it is also catching up with other countries in the world.

With a good leadership team and a correct system, with the joint efforts of everyone, the goal will always be achieved slowly.

The reason why Xu Zhiqing dared to play like this was that he could flip the table at any time.

He doesn't need to care about the feelings of those so-called aristocratic families, what he does is that you aristocratic families must follow his rules to survive.

Either destroy this rule.

This is precisely because of this, after Lanzhou and Fengxiang Mansions were defeated by Wu Guo's army, they also had to slowly gather together.

Fortunately, they have experience in dealing with it. First, they sent propagandists to prefectures, counties, towns, and villages.

Promote some policies of the Wu Kingdom, so that those people who don't even know the words know what the Wu Kingdom is going to do.

At the same time, tell those landlords and the like.

Hand over your own land to the Wu Kingdom as soon as possible, and then the Wu Kingdom will distribute it uniformly.

As for the family property, Wu Guo will not collect it, but will contact them to find other ways to make money for them.

Even so, there were quite a few bloody moments in places.

No one wants to hand over their own land, especially some big families with good land.

However, Wu Guo is not used to them, and should be suppressed.

A set of procedures is to publicize the policy first, and the Wu Kingdom officials who are willing to cooperate will provide support, and those who do not cooperate will be directly eliminated.

Then census population, fields and so on.

These processes were relatively unfamiliar before, but they quickly picked up speed after getting used to them.

Xu Zhiqing ascended the throne as an enemy this day, except for being more formal, there were not many other changes.

One thing that has changed is that the main hall was directly changed by him.

For example, the place where the dragon chair should be placed was turned into a table by him, and ordinary chairs were placed.

Tables and chairs were also placed below, and chairs were provided for all officials.

In this way, he is still following in the footsteps of another world.

At the beginning, those officials didn't do much work, but under Xu Zhiqing's several times of force, finally no one dared to say anything.

He was also tired, and he didn't listen softly. Instead, he forced them to do it, but these people didn't dare to resist.

Co-authored to improve the status of these people, do you have to force them?

He hasn't proposed a rotation system yet?
He found the low point of these people, that is, he couldn't discuss with them nicely, and forced them to do it.

Xu Zhiqing sat on the chair with his hands on the table, and he looked down at the ministers sitting on the chair tremblingly.

It's quite funny, these people are really scared to death.

Could it be that standing up all the time doesn't hurt your waist?
The table below is divided into left and right rows. There are not many officials at present, only about a hundred people, and this includes people from other cities.

Left and right a move job division.

For example, the first person sitting in the first column on the left is Yelu Chucai, and beside him is Guo Jing.

After discussion, Guo Jing was appointed as the first Marshal of the Wu Kingdom and concurrently as the commander of the Second Army.

It's normal for Guo Jing to serve concurrently. Apart from him, no one in Wu Kingdom is capable of commanding the Second Army.

Shi Zhilei had no objection, he was very convinced by Guo Jing.

The entire Central Plains was taken by Guo Jing.

Although he also won a lot of places, compared to Guo Jing, he is still much weaker in the military.

He is similar to Xu Zhiqing, he is good at individuals, but he is a bit weak in military affairs.

Next to Guo Jing was him, and once was Shi Zhilei, Lu Zhijia and others.

In Xu Zhiqing's mind, the rank of a marshal is basically that of a senior official, and he is considered equal to him in terms of position registration.

For example, while he was Emperor Wu, he also served as the deputy marshal.

Others didn't know what Xu Zhiqing was going to do, but Guo Jing and Yelu Chucai understood Xu Zhiqing's thoughts.

This one really doesn't like to be an emperor.

Others have worked so hard to be an official, but this one is good. He tried every means to lose the high position of emperor.

Instead, they stopped this one from throwing it away. This one was good, but they thought of ways to curtail their own rights.

Other emperors concentrated power in their hands, but this one wanted to throw it out.

Military power, if it is said to be lost to Guo Jing, it will be lost to Guo Jing.

The rights that others value are not even as good as playing with flowers and plants in this person's eyes.

(End of this chapter)