When another year of spring came, Li Mu, the governor of the Western Regions of Zhao State, finally returned to Handan.

Like every war before, Li Mu brought back a lot of news that was extremely exciting.

After defeating the Huns, Li Mu did not pursue the Huns closely, but continued to advance westward and finally met Zhao Kuo.

This was also Zhao Dan's advance arrangement. As long as he took over the Western Regions, the Huns in the northern desert would be the target of Zhao's troops to attack at any time. Moreover, since the Western Regions were occupied, the Huns had no place to run, so it was impossible for them to go to Siberia in the snow, right?

So there is no need to rush to attack Mobei.

In fact, even Li Mu himself didn't know that those who arrived in Handan with him were also the three Xiongnu Chanyu's conscience.

After being defeated by Li Mu, the once temporarily unified Xiongnu fled back to the north of Mo and then split into many parts again. Among them, the four more powerful Xiongnu nobles each established themselves as Shanyu and conquered each other for survival.

Under such circumstances, it is extremely important who can get the support of Zhao. Therefore, these Shanyus were willing to submit to Zhao, just to get the support of Zhao and kill all the others.

Zhao Dan has made a decision to ask Li Mu to lead his troops to attack Mobei by then and completely include Mobei under Zhao's command.

Another aspect of Li Mu's Western Expedition to the Bactricia region is also worth mentioning.

During this Western Expedition, except for the mountainous areas in the south, there were still some resistance forces, more than 80% of the other areas had all population cities under the jurisdiction of the Protectorate of the Western Regions of Zhao State. Currently, a group of officials who set out with the army of Zhao State were responsible for the governance.

Of course, since the Western Regions and Baktria are very vast, Zhao will need to carry out a large number of immigration and dispatch officials to this part of the region in the future, and at the same time retain sufficient powerful force to achieve Zhao's rule over these two regions.

Otherwise, Zhao's rule over this area would only be as flashy as the Tang Dynasty.

However, considering that Seleugu's combat effectiveness was completely incomparable to the powerful Arab Empire in the Tang Dynasty, and considering that Zhao had super-era weapons such as armored cavalry and thunder, no one in Zhao felt that Zhao would not be able to defend these two areas.

In addition, Li Mu also brought back a long list obtained by auctioning oasis, slaves, horses and various specialty materials in the Western Regions. At the end of the list is the joint seal of the heads of the top 20 chambers of commerce in the world, and a huge number that makes Lu Buwei, the highest head of the Ministry of Commerce of Zhao, feel dizzy when he sees it.

Not only that, Li Mu also brought back tens of thousands of Hu slaves from the Western Regions, thousands of descendants of Macedonian craftsmen from the former Alexander Empire from the Bad Cretan region, as well as many books hidden in the Bad Cretan region, including news about Greek sages such as Plato and Aristotle.

Regarding the Indian Mauryan Dynasty, Li Mu also gained enough understanding in Bactricia, laying the foundation for the subsequent conquest of India.

Although India is now in the reign of King Ashoka, the strongest king of the Mauryan Dynasty, with the combination of Li Mu + armored cavalry + the elite Zhao army that pacified the six kingdoms, Zhao Dan felt that King Ashoka would not dominate India like in history and was called the eternal emperor of India.

Of course, it is necessary to eat rice in one bite, and it is necessary to transfer to India, but it will be after Zhao completely pacified the Western Regions and captured the northern desert.

The wars in the Western Regions and India are mainly left to Li Mu and assisted by Zhao Kuo. This is because the enemy in this regard is the most difficult, and it also requires someone to station for a long time. The combination of Li Mu and Zhao Kuo is both young and excellent enough, and is an excellent candidate.

In addition, the Yue tribes such as Dongyue, Minyue in the south, and Yelang in the southwest are also targets that need to be conquered. After all, this is the provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi in Chinese history, and they must be taken down.

Moreover, after taking this place, Zhao State was able to continue to go south to Vietnam and other Indochina Peninsula, thereby obtaining the best food crop that Zhao State could obtain in this era - Chameng Rice.

As for moving south, Zhao Dan decided to hand it over to Lian Po, who was still old.

After all, according to historical books, Lian Po died a few years before Qin Shihuang destroyed Zhao in 222 BC. If this is the case, although Lian Po is in his sixties, he will have at least twenty years of life.

With Lian Po, who is old and stronger, and with veterans such as Pang Nuan and Ju Xin, it is absolutely safe.

To take a step back, even if these veterans live a short life span, Le Cheng, who is still considered a Mesozoic generation, can still be responsible for this. After all, the south is not as powerful as the Seleucid or the Mauryan dynasty in the Western Regions, but mainly ethnic minorities and small countries in the mountains.

Such an enemy, a famous general of the world of Lian Po and Pang Nuan, is actually just relaxing his muscles and bones, and Le Cheng's ability is definitely easy to handle.

In addition to land affairs, Zhao State is also advancing orderly in the process of ocean affairs.

After destroying Qi, Wei, Chu and other countries, Zhao State acquired a large number of shipbuilding craftsmen. Now Zhao Dan concentrated these craftsmen in the Langya City of Zhao State, preparing to build a fleet that could go to sea. The head of the fleet was Li Mu's deputy general in history, Sima Shang, the current commander of the Zhao State Navy.

In the short term, Zhao Dan hopes that within ten years, the fleet of Zhao State can land on the Riben Islands and control the mineral resources of Riben, especially copper and silver mines.

Within twenty years, Zhao Dan hoped that Zhao's fleet could go south to the Spice Islands, which is later Indonesia.

Within thirty years, Zhao Dan hopes that Zhao's fleet can reach the Arabian Peninsula and the east coast of Africa.

Within fifty years, Zhao Dan hoped that Zhao's fleet could bypass the Cape of Good Hope, reach the west coast of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean, and even the Liberian Peninsula in western Europe, entering the Mediterranean Sea.

Within seventy to one hundred years, Zhao Dan hopes that Zhao's fleet can land on the Americas.

Within 150 years, Zhao Dan hopes that Zhao's fleet can complete the global voyage.

It sounds like it's too old, but given that it is still 200 BC, which is at least 1,600 years earlier than the era of the Great Discovery between Columbus and Magellan and others in history, and the situation in which there are many people in the Central Plains due to the thousand-year war, Zhao Dan is not in a hurry at all.

When the population of Zhao State exploded, Zhao State's foreign maritime industry reached a peak. At that time, the excess population on the Central Plains could be exported to newly developed colonies all over the world by immigrant conquers.

Under the most ideal situation, the entire Africa, Oceania and the Americas may even become completely colonies of Zhao, and the conquest of West Asia and Europe is the goal of Zhao's future land and military expansion.

Of course, will the continued foreign conquest split the Zhao State into four major khanates similar to Mongolia, or may there be such things as the United States becoming independent from the British colony? To be honest...

When this issue needs to be considered, Zhao Dan has been in a state of disgrace. There are so many dead people who care about it? I can't even take care of it if I want to.

Besides, if the whole world is conquered by China, then what's the point of whether the Zhao Kingdom is strong or even whether the Zhao royal family still exists in such a situation where "the whole world is Chinese and the whole world is speaking Chinese".

Anyway, Zhao Dan is the founder who laid the great cause of China for generations and eternal times, and is destined to be recorded in history and sacrificed by kings for generations!

Speaking of which, Zhao Dan was preparing to record all the memories of future generations in his mind in the form of an "oracle" and pass on them from generation to generation.

With such an oracle book claimed to be from heaven, and with many descriptions of the future that will surely be realized, Zhao Dan felt that as long as his inheritors were not kicked in the head, they would not do stupid things like those in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, which were like those in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, and would not stop Zhao's foreign expansion.

That's enough.

On the first day of June 248 BC, Zhao Dan officially climbed Mount Tai and held a grand Fengshan ceremony under the witness of the ministers of Zhao State, various schools of thought, representatives of the people of Zhao State from all over the country, and even envoys from many small border countries, tribes and other envoys.

That is, on the Fengshan Ceremony, Zhao Dan announced that he would change the year name to "United", and ordered the Zhao State calendar officials to modify the calendar, and promulgate the new calendar named the Chinese calendar and implement it from then on.

From then on, there was no more statement about 248 BC, nor any statement about the 16th year of King Zhao, but only the first year of the Chinese calendar!

The Chinese calendar has also become the only calendar used on the earth in later generations.

China's history has officially opened a new page!

In the third year of the Chinese calendar, the Seleucid king Antioch II led a large army to attack and fought with Li Mu in Suye County.

In this battle, Li Mu defeated Antioka II with 50,000 Zhao troops and 30,000 vassals, with 80,000 troops, and Antioka II was shot in the shoulder by Yiqusheng in the battle. After retreating to the country, he died of worries and anger.

After Antioch II's death, the princes of Seleucid were fighting for the throne and fell into civil strife. They were no longer able to advance eastward to deal with Zhao. The princes even cede land and pay compensation to get Li Mu, so as not to continue Li Mu's advance westward.

Under such circumstances, six years later, in the nine years of the Chinese calendar, Li Mu, who had been fully prepared, led a hundred thousand Zhao army across the mountains of Central Asia to India, and defeated the 300,000 army led by Ashoka of the Mauryan Dynasty on the banks of the Indus, and began to conquer the South Asian subcontinent of India.

At the same time, Lian Po, as the main general, began to lead the Zhao army in the Central Plains to conquer the Yue and the Southwest Yi. Although Pang Yan and Ju Xin died of illness in this process, Le Cheng lived up to Zhao Dan's expectations and successfully took over as Lian Po's best assistant.

In the eleventh year of the Chinese calendar, both the southwestern Yi and Baiyue were conquered by the combination of Lian Po and Le Cheng, and the ruling territory of Zhao State was completely expanded to the South China Sea and reached the entrance to the Indochina Peninsula.

At this moment, except for the Xizang, Jilin and Heilongjiang in history, the State of Zhao has completely occupied all the territory of China in later generations.

Moreover, considering the extra North Korea, the Desert North, the Western Regions, Central Asia, and the Ribian overseas colony that Sima Shang had just opened up for Zhao State, in fact, the territory of Zhao State has surpassed the later China State, and with the continuous expansion of Zhao State's foreign countries, Zhao State's territory is still expanding.

At this moment, Zhao State is already well deserved and undisputedly the most powerful country on the earth!

At the same time, the internal handover of Zhao's political arena is also operating in an orderly manner.

After establishing the term system of the prime minister, the first Yu Xin completed his five-year term abdication, and Lu Buwei became the second prime minister of Zhao. At this time, Lu Buwei's term had ended, and Li Si became the third prime minister. Another Zhao political evergreen Li Bo and Han Fei were regarded as the two most powerful competitors of the fourth prime minister.

At least for the present moment, this blood transfusion mechanism is quite effective.

In the 28th year of the Chinese calendar, Zhao Dan, who had served as the king of Zhao for a full forty-four years, announced his abdication at the 60th birthday ceremony. It is said that Zhao Heng, the crown prince of Zhao, became the second "master father" of Zhao after his grandfather, King Wuling of Zhao, and the Supreme Emperor.

Since then, the system that the king of Zhao could not be over 60 years old was fixed in the form of the ancestral system. Under Zhao Dan's personal demonstration, the Supreme Emperor's failure to interfere in the government affairs of the new emperor has also become a potential and rule that must be followed.

The retirement system at the age of 60 was completely established from top to bottom in Zhao State.

When Zhao Dan abdicated, Zhao's territory had expanded to the Arabian Peninsula and Eastern European plains. At the same time, most of India had been conquered. All of the archipelagoes were half of the Indochina Peninsula, and 30% of the spice islands had become the colonies of Zhao.

This is an unprecedentedly powerful Zhao State, a powerful empire that has never appeared in Chinese history, and a Zhao State destined to be a strong mark in Chinese history!

The glory of China continues, and the era when a great nation ruled the earth is slowly beginning and will become the main theme of the entire history of the earth for a long time!

The end of the book.

——Xi Meng's father was at 3:21 am on October 17, 2018.
Chapter completed!