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Chapter 819 Zheng Shuo (Second Change)

The main hall of Linshuo Palace.

"Your Majesty, this is the latest map drawn by the Ministry of Rites for you!"

An official from the Ministry of Rites reported to Li Chongjiu.

"Come up!"

"promise!"

At that moment, there were rustling footsteps outside the hall, and six officials from the Ministry of Rituals lifted a map as high and wide as the wall into the hall, and then slowly unfolded it in front of Li Chongjiu.

The map is mainly gray and yellow. The land is represented by yellow, while the sea area is represented by a gray area.

This is the territory of Da Zhao now!
Li Chongjiu sighed and walked to the map.This map is drawn very delicately, and it standardizes the counties and counties, as well as the large and small rivers and mountains, in addition to the tribes of the grassland in the north, and the tribes in the east, Li Tang.
The current territory of Dazhao extends to the desert and the vast sea in the north. This is where Zhao Guozheng’s Eastern Capital Protectorate and Baidao Capital Protectorate are located. When the Great Sui Dynasty was strong in the past, because the Eastern Turks were still there, they did not reach here.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not pacify this area during his lifetime. It was not until the Han Dynasty that the efforts of several generations of emperors extended the territory to this area.

Going further north is Mobei, where there are still the tribes of Tie Le. Due to the existence of the vast desert and vast sea, this is temporarily the limit of Zhao's military strength.There, Xue Yantuo, who was the most powerful in Tiele, has been destroyed, and now he is replaced by Huihe. In addition, there are many Tiele tribes, and further west are the Western Turks and Tuyuhun.
The territory of Dazhao extends to the Datong River in the east, which is the border of Goguryeo's hometown.Goguryeo, which was not conquered by the Sui Dynasty, is now the five counties in northern Liaobei of Zhao State, and Zhao State has restored the territory of the four counties of Han Dynasty.

In Silla, on the east side of the Datong River, Baekje and Baekje had surrendered to Dazhao, and they performed extraordinarily hard in the battle to quell Goguryeo, and they were already Zhao's solid allies.Seeing that the two countries have always been submissive, Li Chongjiu has no intention of including the two countries in the territory for the time being, but it does not rule out that future generations will have this plan.

Right now, Zhao Guojing is in Youjing, and has a strong control over the east and grasslands. Silla and Baekje now rely on the existence of Zhao Guo.Therefore, Li Chongjiu is not worried at all. After the destruction of Goguryeo in history, Silla will counterattack and unify the Korean peninsula.

Outside of Silla, there is the small Tamna Kingdom, which floats on the sea, which is today's Jeju Island.But at this time, he had already surrendered to Zhao Guo. Last year, his king even crossed the sea to Youjing to pay homage to Li Chongjiu.

To the east of Tamna Kingdom is Wa Kingdom, which hangs alone on the sea.Maritime merchants in Zhao State have surveyed and mapped Silla and Baekje waters very clearly, almost outlining the appearance of the Korean Peninsula as known to later generations Li Chongjiu, but for Wa State, there are still a lot of blanks on the map.

The four islands of the Wa Kingdom that Li Chongjiu knows are like a samurai sword, except for the roughly marked Kyushu Island, Honshu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido are all circled together, and then there is a huge blank.Li Chongjiu heard that the students in the Guozijian have been discussing whether the Wa Kingdom is the easternmost part of the world, and whether the three Penglai Islands where Xu Fu went to sea are on the Wa Kingdom.

After hearing the news of Goguryeo's demise, Prince Shotoku, who co-regented with Soga Mako, died of illness. When the power minister of the Wa Kingdom, Soga Mako, was seriously ill, he made the last important decision on behalf of Emperor Tuiko and officially dispatched the Zhao envoy. Plead ministers to Da Zhao, and promise that if you give up the territorial claim on the Korean Peninsula, you will never give up your status as the suzerain of Baekje.

At the same time, Emperor Tuigu decided to send Zhao envoys to Youjing every year to learn the culture of Zhao State. He also heard that Buddhism in Youjing was prosperous, so he was willing to send monks to Youjing to learn Buddhist scriptures and spread them to Wa Kingdom.

Li Chongjiu has already agreed to the request of the Japanese country. He knows that Japan's self-respecting Buddha, Soga Mako, has defeated the Monobe Moriya, who disapproved of the Buddha.The entire country has a policy of advocating Buddhism, which is the same as Baekje and Silla.Therefore, Li Chongjiu also intends to use the transmission of Buddhist scriptures and the exchange of monks to create convenience for exchanges between countries.

In addition to agreeing to the request of the Wa Kingdom, Li Chongjiu also put forward his own request to let the Wa Kingdom open Kyushu and draw three ports on it as berthing places for Zhao Kingdom's merchant ships.

The Japanese envoy was shocked after hearing Li Chongjiu's request.The political situation of the Wa Kingdom is relatively stable, and it is almost in a closed state. The merchant ships of the Zhao Kingdom have to go back and forth between the two places, which is no less demanding than the incident of black ships in the history of the Wa Kingdom.

Facing the hesitant Japanese envoy, Li Chongjiu let him visit the Zhao Guo Navy moored at the mouth of the Sancha River and the dock where the warship was being built. The emperor reported the matter.

In the south, Lin Shihong had been flattened, and after Feng Ang surrendered, the territory of Da Zhao extended to Zhuya County and Dan'er County, which is today's Hainan Island.In the land of Hainan, the three dynasties of Tang and Yu were paid by Nanfu Huang, and in the Qin Dynasty, it was the outer border of Yue County, which meant that it was the end of the territory and the place where the forces could not reach.

In the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he sent General Fubo Lu Bode and Lou Chuan General Yang Pu to quell the chaos in South Vietnam, and set up Zhuya County and Daner County. Hainan was incorporated into the Central Plains territory for the first time.However, after the war in the Central Plains, the Central Plains court was unable to govern Hainan, so it gave up local rule.It wasn't until the time of washing his wife that the civil unrest in Hainan was put down, and Nanliang went to Yazhou, and then he returned to the territory of the Central Plains.

Now Feng An returned to Zhao, and all the thousands of locals in Yazhou came under Zhao's rule. Kan Leng decided to set up a county in Shecheng County, which is today's Haikou, to govern the island.In the future, Yazhou will also exist as another holy place for Zhao to exile guilty people after Liaodong.

Further to the south is the vast ocean, which is far away. There is a country of Langyaxiu in that far away place. It once paid tribute to Nanliang, but there is no news after that.

As for the confrontation between Li Tang and Zhao Guo in the west, as Li Chongjiu's last opponent to sweep the world, Li Tang's territory is still not small.At present, the boundary between Zhao State and Li Tang lies in the Jingxiang area to the south, and Li Tang occupies the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, blocking the way for the Zhao army's navy to enter Shu.

Going north in Henan, the two armies surrounded Luoyang, and their battle lines were intertwined. After crossing the Yellow River, they were Hanoi and Hedong.On this dividing line that traverses the north and the south, the two armies each have more than 20 troops confronting each other.

Li Tang still exists stubbornly, becoming the last obstacle that Li Chongjiu has to overcome to calm down the world.

After reading the map, Li Chongjiu said to the officials of the Ministry of Rites, "How long does it take to make such a map?"

The official of the Ministry of Rites said: "It took more than ten painters for more than 20 days to draw this picture."

Li Chongjiu nodded and said: "You have done a good job in this matter, pass on my will, and give each of these painters ten pens."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Thank you in no hurry, I still need these painters to draw a thousand more maps of this size, one-tenth of the size of the map, and spread them to the officials of all counties and counties. The county school and the county school each have a map!"

After hearing this, the official of the Ministry of Rites said quickly: "Your Majesty, the drawing on this map is the work of our Ministry of Rites. Through the Ministry of War, the Secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the hard work of adopting maps from all over the world, this is the only one of the Great Zhao. If it is passed on, it is not for others to know. Is our country false or true?"

What the official from the Ministry of Rites said was not unreasonable, the maps were still very hidden. When Li Chongjiu wanted to attack Youjing, it was Wen Yanbo who presented a map of Youzhou to Li Chongjiu.But these maps are the secrets of military strategists, and most people don't need them.Only scholars who are too idle to discuss the general trend of the world, or ambitious outsiders who are planning to rebel, no one will need it.

Li Chongjiu had people draw maps to officials before, but it had no effect at that time, but now even county schools and county schools are required, which undoubtedly expands a lot, and even students, scholars and ordinary people can get in touch.

Li Chongjiu asked with a smile: "On this map, apart from the city walls, mountains and rivers, there is no description of the distribution of our troops, horses, money and food. How can we let others know our truth. If you are afraid of leaking secrets, I think Li Shimin's desk On the map, there will be no missing map of the territory of my Great Zhao Kingdom, at most it is not as detailed as ours."

"The reason why I want to pass this picture to the hands of the officials is just to hope that they will broaden their knowledge and let them know what the Great Zhao they have been working for all their lives looks like! As for the county school, the students in the county school, I just want to Let them know how vast the world is, and the territory I have conquered over the past ten years is only one of nine states in the world, and the men have ambitions in all directions, and they will be the ones to open up the territory in the future."

Having said that, Li Chongjiu turned around and said, "Do you understand?"

"Your Majesty, with a heart of the world, a humble minister is not as good as this, this is what to do!"

After the officials of the Ministry of Rites left, they reported to the officials of Qin Tianjian to see them.

The official of Zhao Guoqin Tianjian is Li Chunfeng, who was originally an official of Li Tang. Later, because of his discord with Fu Renjun, he has been depressed.Later, after Li Chongjiu proclaimed himself emperor in Youjing, he reformed the Yuan Dynasty and promulgated the calendar, but because there was no competent manpower.Li Chongjiu asked the Department of Rumors to poach people from Li Tang. Li Chunfeng once compiled ten sutras, and Zhou Xu appreciated the ten sutras after reading them, so he recommended them to Li Chongjiu.Li Chongjiu ordered the Department of Rumors to poach people. After contacting Li Chunfeng, he came to Zhao Guo to become an official without saying a word, also to show his ambition.

After that, Li Chunfeng worked in Qin Tianjian, calculating the calendar.

Promulgating the calendar is a symbol of orthodoxy.The prince claimed to be the Son of Heaven, just to promulgate the calendar on behalf of the heavens and make the farming seasons orderly.Therefore, when the emperor changes his year, he must promulgate the Zhengshuo, write down the almanac, and send it to the local people and officials.

Li Chongjiu asked: "Li Aiqing, you must have a clue about the new calendar when you come!"

Li Chunfeng said: "Exactly, this new calendar has been calculated. The Li Tang calendar, the Wuyin Yuan calendar usurped by Fu Renjun, although the moon can't be seen in the east, and the new moon can't be seen in the west, it can be determined by the method of the new moon." Replacing the method of Pingshuo, this is a pioneering work that did not exist in the ancient six calendars, but it has a little more reduction, and the time of Heshuo is earlier than the actual time, and it needs to be corrected after only two years of implementation. And the calendar established by the minister is better than that of Fu Renjun the calendar."

Li Chongjiu nodded happily and said: "I heard that from the ancient Liuli calendar, Xia Hou's family built Yin, Yin people built Chou, Zhou people built Zi, and since ancient times, each dynasty has changed, and each has its own date. Now I want you to revise the calendar and promulgate the world in the future. Just to tell the people , my great Zhao is orthodox, and your calendar must be more accurate than Li Tang's."

Li Chunfeng immediately said: "You must live up to His Majesty's trust!"

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