During the conversation with Lu Weihai, Lu Weihai also revealed a piece of news, that is, although the world is in chaos, the era of large-scale chaos has not yet come.
After Xiao Jingxuan's inquiry, Lu Weihai also explained the reason. It turned out that although the various powerful families established the country, their fortunes were not stable.
The ancestors of the major sects originally planned to use the power of luck to break through the realm of heaven and man.
Only when the national destiny is stable can these people have greater confidence in breaking through to the gods, so these people will have a tacit understanding.
After hearing this, Xiao Jingxuan knew what was going on.
It seems that his biological father is trying to calm his mind so that he can conquer the country with peace of mind.
However, this is also what I want. Among all the countries, I am the weakest. If a war really breaks out, I may not be their opponent.
After swiping away Lu Weihai, Xiao Jingxuan sat alone in the study room, looking at the map of the world.
The position of Yan State is too embarrassing. It is located in a remote place, bordering Zhao, Wei, Wei, and barbarians.
After all, the barbarians are nomadic people with no fixed abode. Even if the barbarians are conquered, it will not be of great benefit to the growth of Yan's strength.
Zhao and Wei are powerful, and with Yan's strength, they are not their opponents for a while.
As the saying goes, you have to pick the weak persimmon. Among the current countries, only attacking the Wei Kingdom is in the best interest of the Yan Kingdom.
Most of the land in Weiguo is suitable for farming, and the population is large. The military strength is not strong.
This is simply a piece of cake. What's more troublesome is that the terrain of Weiguo is too complicated.
At the junction with Yan State, there is a large mountain range that completely isolates the two countries.
These mountains are not conducive to the passage of large armies. It seems that I need to think carefully.
In the afternoon of the same day, Xiao Jingxuan transferred 500 guards with good water skills from the personal guard battalion, and then selected 10,000 soldiers with good water skills from each infantry battalion to form a navy.
Zhang Changning, the general of the personal guard battalion, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the navy. He was ordered to lead his troops to Luzhou for training.
He ordered Gu Youzhi, the assistant official of the construction department, to be appointed as the construction supervisor, responsible for building the port in Luzhou and supervising the construction of sea-going ships.
In order to speed up the process, Xiao Jingxuan also ordered to recruit three thousand skilled craftsmen from various places to go to Luzhou to build ships.
At the same time, Xiao Jingxuan also asked Luzhou and Dazhou to send scouts to investigate the route leading to Weiguo.
According to the information from the secret guards, although the territory of Weiguo is not large, the population of Weiguo has reached almost 600,000 households.
Due to the obstruction of the mountains, there were no wars in the Wei Kingdom, so the number of troops was not large, with only less than 100,000 standing troops.
Moreover, due to the fierce party disputes in the Weiguo court, the government was in chaos. The people's lives were also very difficult, and high taxes made the people miserable.
However, in order to reduce casualties, Xiao Jingxuan still planned to wait until all preparations were completed before launching a war of annihilation against the Patriotic State.
Xiao Jingxuan ordered Zhao Gang to increase infiltration into the Wei Kingdom and investigate the defenses of various cities in the Wei Kingdom.
He instigated rebellion in various parts of Weiguo and incited the poor people of Weiguo to revolt.
After arranging these things, Xiao Jingxuan is basically busy with the things in his hands.
So he began to restructure the Yan Kingdom's system. Since the country was already established, Xiao Jingxuan changed the six rooms to six ministries. Each ministry had one minister and two ministers.
Establish a cabinet, change the left and right chief ministers into chief assistants, and second assistants. At the same time, let the three Hanlin assistants be given bachelor's degrees and enter the cabinet office.
In order to better ensure his authority, Xiao Jingxuan separated the Yushitai and Dali Temple separately, making these two departments independent from the cabinet and reporting directly to him.
In addition, Xiao Jingxuan also gave some high-level officials the right to report directly to him.
After completing the reform of the official system, the next thing Xiao Jingxuan needs to do is to revise the law.
In order to limit the power of the aristocratic family, Xiao Jingxuan specially revised the laws on taxation.
First of all, the gentry pays the grain as a whole and divides the land into acres. In addition, Xiao Jingxuan has no mercy on the domestic business taxes.
Then came the changes in the household registration system, which abolished the so-called slave-registered servant system and did not allow wealthy families to keep slave servants.
Finally, in order to ensure the integrity of officials, Xiao Jingxuan stepped up efforts to deal with corrupt officials.
Xiao Jingxuan stipulated that any corrupt officials who embezzled more than fifty silver coins would have their homes confiscated, the men would be sent to the army and their female relatives would be sent to the Jiaofang Department.
The implementation of various policies is to break the monopoly of the aristocratic family.
Of course, in order to obtain more talents, Xiao Jingxuan not only greatly increased the salary of officials, but also made the imperial examination a regular practice.
Every other year, each prefecture will hold a prefecture examination to award the admitted students the status of scholar.
Every three years, the imperial court would hold a joint examination to award the admitted students with the status of Juren.
In the same year, a palace examination will be held to award the admitted students the status of Jinshi.
If you become a scholar, you can become a local official, and if you become a Jinshi, you can become an official.
However, all Jinshi generally go to various ministries to observe government affairs and learn to handle political affairs. After that, they will be assigned to official positions in various places.
All central officials must have local experience.
After arranging these things, Xiao Jingxuan completely relaxed. Next, apart from accompanying Yang Yi every day, Xiao Jingxuan devoted all the rest of his time to martial arts.
Time flies, time flies, and time soon comes to the spring of the 27th year of Jia'an.
At this time, Xiao Jingxuan can be said to be very satisfied. First of all, Yang Yi is pregnant, which is a great joy.
Since there was only one princess, Yang Yi, in the harem, there was no messy palace struggle for favors.
Of course, it doesn't matter even if it happens, Yang Yi's martial arts is higher than Xiao Jingxuan, and ordinary means cannot cause any harm to Yang Yi.
The second thing is that Xiao Jingxuan finally broke through to the realm of spiritual connection. Although it is only the early stage of spiritual connection.
However, with Xiao Jingxuan's combat power, he can already compete with the masters in the late stage of divine connection. Even if he is a peak spiritual master, Xiao Jingxuan has a great chance of escaping from his hands.
There is also a third thing, which is that due to the infiltration of secret guards, two small-scale peasant uprisings have broken out in Weiguo.
Although in the end the uprising was put down by the Weiguo official, it also caused more people to be disappointed with the Weiguo court.
Xiao Jingxuan believes that as long as some time passes, he can easily win over Weiguo.
On this day, Xiao Jingxuan took two hundred guards and a thousand tiger and leopard cavalry to Luzhou for inspection.
Because of the rugged roads, Xiao Jingxuan was destined to be unable to send large-scale troops from Dazhou to attack Weiguo. Attacking Weiguo by sea was Xiao Jingxuan's best way.
Although Weiguo has many fishermen along the coast, its maritime military strength is not developed.
This time, Xiao Jingxuan planned to personally go to Luzhou to supervise the army and supervise the construction of warships.
After arriving in Luzhou, Xiao Jingxuan did not go to Luzhou City immediately, but went directly to the port.
After arriving at the port, Xiao Jingxuan was stunned by the scene in front of him. The weather was still very cold at this time. However, in addition to a large number of craftsmen building warships in the entire port, there were also a large number of soldiers training on the beach.
Xiao Jingxuan's arrival soon alerted the production supervisor Gu Youzhi and the navy chief Zhang Changning.
The two people soon arrived in front of Xiao Jingxuan. After saluting, Xiao Jingxuan visited the entire port under the leadership of the two people.
The entire Luzhou Port is basically under construction. Currently, there are five large warships launched and ten fast ships. There are also twenty large warships under construction. It is expected that all of them will be launched in the autumn.
After boarding the warship and taking a tour, Xiao Jingxuan was very satisfied with Gu Youzhi's ability.
Each of these large warships can carry five hundred soldiers. The warships are also equipped with large crossbows, which can ruthlessly attack approaching enemy ships.
After the visit, Xiao Jingxuan encouraged Gu Youzhi.
Afterwards, after defeating Gu Youzhi, he and Zhang Changning began to discuss military strategy.
Zhang Changning has learned a lot about the sea areas around Weiguo. He has also drawn detailed charts.
Seeing Zhang Changning hand over the chart, Xiao Jingxuan looked at it very carefully.
After reading, Xiao Jingxuan pointed to an island not far from Weiguo and said: "Where is this?"
"Back to the king, this is a desert island. There are some criminal prisoners of the country gathered on the island. It is somewhat similar to a prison. There are currently about a thousand prisoners and hundreds of guards on the island."
"Well, before autumn, occupy this place, store up supplies here and defend this place. This place will become our outpost for attacking the Wei Kingdom."
"Yes, Your Majesty, I will make arrangements as soon as possible."
"Um."
After the inspection was completed, Jam Hsiao stayed in Luzhou for another five days. In addition to inspecting the port, Jam Hsiao also conducted a thorough inspection of Luzhou's offending people's livelihood.
Wang Zhiyi, the prefect of Luzhou, is still very good. The population of various prefectures and counties in Luzhou and the life of the people are still good.
Xiao Jingxuan kept it in mind that Gu Youzhi and Wang Zhiyi could be of great use in the future.
After the inspection was completed, Jam Hsiao hurried back to Illinois.
During this inspection, Xiao Jingxuan finally realized his shortcomings. It turned out that Xiao Jingxuan used Luzhou as a surprise soldier, and the main attack direction was still in Dazhou.
But after this inspection, Xiao Jingxuan found that he could definitely take Luzhou as the main direction of attack.
A powerful navy can land in any coastal area of the country. And as long as the soldiers can adapt to the roughness of the sea, they can avoid the pain of long journeys.
However, I have already asked Lei Ben to lead his troops to garrison in Dazhou. I'm afraid it won't be easy to change it for a while.
After much thought, Xiao Jingxuan ordered the Guards Battalion as the backbone, summoned 20,000 field soldiers, and 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry to form a right army, with Yang Xiong as the marshal of the right army, and marched to Luzhou.
After arriving in Luzhou, Zhang Changning was appointed as the deputy commander of the Right Army. The Right Army and the navy fought in coordination and launched an operation against Weiguo in the autumn.