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Chapter 405 Grand Ceremony

After the banquet, in the square outside the imperial city, colorful lanterns were hung on the stage, palace dancers performed large-scale palace dances, and musicians performed large-scale palace music. Today, there was no martial law around the imperial city, and the people could watch it outside. Hou Xuanyan brought his concubines and accepted everyone's worship at Fengtianmen, which was also considered to be a joy to the people.

The royal weather is naturally different from ordinary people. Everyone is crowded in the square to watch singing and dancing performances. Jinling City is empty, and the yamen runners in the city are extremely nervous, and they patrol outside the square to maintain order.

The ceremony was the next morning, and the beginning of the new year, on this day, the emperor issued an edict to change the country's name to Hua and set the year name "Tianshou".

From today on, it is the first year of Tianshou. The people have also changed from Ming people to Chinese.

Among the people below, there are also many well-educated people. After listening to this year's title, they have learned about the future trends of the court.

"Your Majesty collects Baiyue in the south, opens up the desert north, kills Manchu in the east, and sanks the chieftains in the west, and still decides the year name Tianshou. He still has the intention of conquering the enemy. Look, there will be endless wars in the next few years."

A scholar who was well-educated was full of words, but the people next to him agreed and nodded.

After several foreign wars, the Chinese people who tasted the sweetness no longer regarded war as a disaster. There were countless families who made money because of the foreign wars of the court, and ordinary people also benefited more or less from it.

The celebration was noon, and the joyful atmosphere stopped, and today's project was a bit bloody.

After the Siam royal family was captured, they were detained in Jinling. Today, in front of the royal family of the Wanguo family, they were killed in Jinling.

The musician, dancer and musician who were still performing just now slowly walked off the stage. A team of guards wearing big red brocade clothes led more than 60 people of all sizes to the stage.

Some people have long read out their crimes, which are nothing more than resisting the heavenly soldiers, provoking the Chinese and the Chaozhou Dynasty, and being defeated and arrested. As the royal family of the two countries, of course, they have become the culprit of the war and need to be punished for this.

Swipe, dozens of heads fell to the ground, and the royal family in Myanmar and Siam were destroyed here. The kings and princes of the countries who had already been prepared in advance suddenly woke up. There were palace servants who had already prepared in advance to wash them on the platform with buckets and rags. The afternoon singing and dancing continued, on the color platform that had just been killed.

The celebration ceremony was carried out in a straightforward manner according to Gu Yanwu's plan. At this time, Hou Xuanyan had already discussed the conquest of Junggar with the important officials in the court in Nuanfang Pavilion.

The current loose alliance system of the Junggar Khanate is composed of tribes. Their leader is the leader of these tribes, and the current leader is Eziertu Khan. In fact, the patriarchs of each tribe have great autonomy, and they will only unite and unite to the outside world when war comes.

For a long time, their enemy was Tsarist Russia in the north. Now, due to the emergence of Jingbei Province, this situation has changed. The situation in western Mo was once very mysterious.

Hou Xuanyan pointed to the map and said, "We gave up the advancement of the Liaodong front, which means that we must achieve results from the west, and the snowfield will be easily pacified. Now the cavalry of Rakshasa continues to increase, and even Xiaohai (Lake Baikal) has given up, just to attack Huanglong. Starting from Junggar, we will go north and west to the capital of the Rakshasa people, and conquer Moscow and St. Petersburg."

"Moscow? St. Petersburg?" Everyone was confused and couldn't understand what it meant.

Hou Xuanyan coughed lightly and said, "These are two big cities of Rakshasa, just like our Jinling and Beiping."

The ministers then realized that they thought it was a new name that came back from the omnipotent Qianxiang Camp. In fact, the people in the court had very limited knowledge of Tsarist Russia or the Rakshasa in their mouths. After all, in their eyes, it was a barren land. In fact, there was no shortage of hair, and there were Russians everywhere.

Ma Shiying said, "Your Majesty, there are Xia Wanchun's 300,000 Jingbei Army in the north of the Mo, and Yang Zhan's 200,000 Sichuan soldiers. Zhang Huangyan brought Zhejiang and Hunan soldiers and no less than 150,000 troops. In addition, Yan Yingyuan, the marshal of the Liao Dynasty, rushed to the west of the Mo. By March of the next year, millions of soldiers were displayed in the desert. How could a mere Junggar resist? According to the superficial opinion of the minister, the only thing worth worrying about now is the supply issue of the army. As the saying goes, the army will go before the food and grass moves first. One million people are not a small number. Different from Liaodong, the sea transport is not feasible. Only opening up the food route is the top priority."

Hou Xuanyan nodded. He had never walked along the way, and he was not very clear about the specific efficiency of transporting grain. But Ma Shiying was right. No matter how many soldiers there were, they needed supplies, otherwise it would be better to have less. After all, Moxi and Nanyang are different, and it is difficult to fight and raise wars. He had to transport food there by himself.

The nine borders of Shaanxi and Gansu were unintentionally prosperous because they were on the channel for transporting grain, and countless business opportunities appeared in front of the people of Shaanxi and Gansu, such as Datong, which was revived, and was even richer than when Shanxi merchants were in power.

Now, transporting grain to the western desert is a good idea. Just building roads is enough to allow the court to digest the countless silver and gold brought by the Nanyang Sea. Once the Nanyang shipping routes were opened up, they instantly became the center of the entire East-West exchange and trade. The national treasury, which was collected by tariffs alone, had no place to bloom.

No matter how much money you make, it is no different from a stone piled up in the treasury. Only by spending it to build a place can it be considered as the best use of the goods.

"It is urgent to build the northwest, so we start with road construction. Send everyone in the soil and stone of the Craftsman Pavilion to escort them to the northwest, mainly Gansu, Shaanxi, and Jingbei, to study the soil quality and see how to build the road appropriately. It is best to create some materials suitable for road construction." Hou Xuanyan scratched his ears and heads, but he didn't know how to express things like cement asphalt. He knew nothing about these things, so it was impossible for him to invent. Only by deliberately guiding and setting up a generous reward system to create the best soil for skilled craftsmen. As for which step this nation has taken, it is not something Hou Xuanyan could decide.

Chen Mingyu was still the same, and he was worried about defeat before he was worried about victory and said in a deep voice: "It's only half a year, isn't it a bit hasty..."

Hou Xuanyan looked at this person, so you wouldn't think of any inspiring words from him, but the court really needed such a person. He was not sleek and somewhat conservative. In fact, this personality was very unsuitable for the officialdom. He could reach the highest position of all officials in the officialdom, relying on Hou Xuanyan's trust. Looking forward to him to mobilize pre-warly, it would probably make the soldiers think of unarmed on the spot and farming home. But with such a person, he could destroy the monarchs and ministers of the dynasty in a timely manner and be blinded by victory. Whenever everyone's mind was hot, they needed a basin of cold water to cool down.

Hou Xuanyan laughed and said, "You can fight and practice while fighting, or you can slow down the war for one year. Anyway, the decision and initiative are in our hands. Now the soldiers are practicing day and night in Wuliang Mansion in Mobei, like sharpening a knife. As for when to start, let this knife drink blood and kill the enemy, it depends entirely on those of us who hold the knife. Even if I sharpen the knife for three years, five years, or even ten years in Mobei, it is worth it to be able to kill the enemy with one knife when I swing the knife."
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