Cao Bin nodded, "That's true!" He glanced at Han Derang and asked, "Does the Liao Kingdom just watch Yan Yun destroy the Song Dynasty?" Han Derang said with a smile: "That's your business, don't care about ours. It’s a matter!” Cao Bin shook his head and said, “I’m afraid that’s not the case! The Prime Minister is extremely resourceful and must be able to understand the meaning of lips dying and teeth cold!”
Handerang's heart moved, he glanced at Cao Bin and said with a smile: "What do you mean when you say this to me?" Cao Bin became a little impatient and pointedly said: "If Yanyun annexes the south, the next target will be It must be your Liao Kingdom! Do you think you can face Yan Yun alone?" Han Derang frowned involuntarily.
Cao Bin continued: "Yan Yun is now like a fully grown ferocious beast, bloodthirsty and cruel, and his desires will never end! They will never stop after annexing the Song Dynasty, but will continue to conquer! It is impossible for them to coexist peacefully with any of our families, and it is impossible for any of our families to face Yan Yun alone. The only way to survive is to unite!"
Handerang sneered and said, "My lord, you are just saying such alarmist things because you want me, Daliao, to send troops to contain Yan Yun's troops for you!" Cao Bin nodded and said, "This is indeed my idea! But this is very important to your Liao country. For example, it can be said that our Song Dynasty restrained Yan Yun's troops for your Liao Kingdom!" Han Dejian said: "Everyone says that Lord Cao Bin is upright and upright, but I didn't expect that he could be so eloquent!"
Cao Bin said: "I'm not eloquent, I'm just telling the truth! Prime Minister, you should be very clear that if our Song Dynasty collapses, Yan Yun will definitely launch a Northern Expedition to attack the Liao Kingdom!"
Han Derang sneered: "Our Daliao Empire is not your Song Kingdom. Your Song Kingdom is afraid of Yanyun, but we Daliao are not afraid!" Cao Bin sneered: "Are you really not afraid? The Prime Minister is really not sincere in what he said!" Then he frowned and said: "I have already said what I should say. How your Liao Kingdom decides is your own business!"
Handerang was silent for a moment, stood up and said, "Now that I have finished speaking, I will take my leave." Cao Bin also did not stand up, and cupped his hands and said, "I won't send you off." Handerang led his two followers and left.
Today is New Year's Eve, and the whole Tianjing New City is very noisy. Fireworks keep exploding in the city sky, making the whole city gorgeous; dragon dance teams and lion dance teams perform along the streets, and gongs and drums are noisy. , the people watched with great interest, the children ran with the dragon dance team and the lion dance team; the performances on various stages also reached their climax, and there were crowds of people in front of each stage, and cheers came and went; and in this joyous scene In the lively atmosphere, the Tianjing New City City Defense Army has intensified its patrols. Groups of heavily armed patrols shuttled through the streets and alleys of Bianliang City, while sentries on watchtowers in the distance swept their gazes. A bustling city.
At night, Tianjing New City becomes even more lively. The sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums and cheers make the whole city boil; fireworks, fire dragons, fire lions and various light performances turn the entire Tianjing New City into a city that never sleeps. When the New Year's drums beat, all the fireworks bloom together, the sky and the earth are bright, the sound of firecrackers merges into one, and the noisy atmosphere reaches the designated point! Then the whole Tianjing New City gradually became quiet, but it was still very lively in the second half of the night. Many energetic people stayed up all night to party, and performances on various stages continued until the early morning of the next day.
On the first day of the new year, King Yan married the new princess, and the people lined the streets and cheered, creating another lively scene. That night, there was a grand wedding banquet in Prince Yan's mansion, which was lively and festive until midnight. Yang Peng woke up at three o'clock in the morning the next day. I just feel the pain in my head. Thinking of the scene last night, I don’t know how much I drank. I only vaguely remember that everyone seemed to have passed out. Then I had a beautiful spring dream, in which I dreamed that I, Yan Ji, An Qian, and a woman who was as beautiful as a fairy and transformed into a human being were in love with each other until death.
Yang Peng chuckled and patted his head, which was still a little dizzy.
Suddenly I felt that there were people sleeping on and around me, and I couldn't help but look. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it. When you look at it, you will be shocked. You will see An Qian, Yan Ji and the beautiful and beautiful woman whom you have seen in your dream, sleeping naked beside and on your body. Everyone is still in sleep. Among them, the hair is messy, and the aftertaste of passion remains on the beautiful face, which is particularly touching.
Yang Peng understood immediately, widened his eyes and murmured: "That's not a dream!" Then his eyes fell on that beautiful face, as beautiful as a fairy, and his heart moved, and he secretly said with joy: "This must be Yanran!" Is this her true appearance in the cloud? It’s like a fairy! I'm afraid even the immortals are not as beautiful as her! At this time, Luo Yanran was lying in Yang Peng's arms, and Yang Peng couldn't help but tightly hugged her slender waist.
His eyes immediately fell on Yan Ji's face, and he felt the bright light was compelling. Although she was clearly in sleep, she still exuded a charming temperament that made people want to stop. Yang Peng's body reacted involuntarily! She is simply a fairy who brings trouble to the world, a witch who causes people to commit crimes!
Yang Peng couldn't help but look at Yan Ji, then at Luo Yanran, and couldn't help but sigh to himself: "This is obviously a witch sleeping with an immortal in the same bed!" My love is so wonderful! '
Yang Peng looked out the window and saw that it was already three o'clock in the morning. Thinking of many things to do, he prepared to get out of bed. Unexpectedly, with a slight movement, the three women woke up one after another. Seeing the scene in front of them, An Qian and Yan Ji were fine, but Luo Yanran was so embarrassed that she almost wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
On the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, the annual meeting was held in the main hall of Prince Yan's Mansion. The chief officials and generals from all over the country have arrived. After everyone chatted for a while, Yang Peng asked Zhang Xiang to make a government report. Zhang Xiang immediately took out the prepared report and started reading it. Zhang Xiang's report is very long, so I won't repeat it here. I will only briefly introduce the contents of his report.
Zhang Xiang's government reports are mainly divided into finance, population, and the income status of the people in the land. In terms of finance, although the expenses were high this past year, the gains were also great. For all expenses, the surplus still exceeded an astonishing 90 million taels of silver. This does not include a large number of antiques, calligraphy, paintings and pearl treasures. The reason for this result is that first, Yanyun's entire fiscal and tax revenue reached more than 32.7 million taels of silver; secondly, Guan Yun and Guan Lin's fleet revenue was nearly 20 million taels; and finally, the annexation of Sichuan income as well as the income from excavation of imperial tombs. The value of each income is very huge. If the expenses were not too high this year, the year-end balance would be even more amazing. It should be noted that fiscal and tax revenues include profits turned over by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
Then there is the population situation and the income status of the people. Due to the annexation of Sichuan, the total population under Yanyun's control has exceeded 46 million, of which Sichuan has the largest population; the originally sparsely populated Guanzhong area of Shaanxi has been enriched due to the return of people who previously fled to Sichuan. got up. As for the income of the people, generally speaking, the average has reached the level of the most prosperous period of the Song Dynasty. However, because income distribution has become more reasonable, the actual income level of ordinary people has actually exceeded the level of the most prosperous period of the Song Dynasty. It can be said that the people of Yanyun today live and work in peace and contentment, and live a peaceful and happy life.
Finally, there is the administrative situation. This year, corrupt officials were arrested by the Ministry of Supervision in various places. Although the number was slightly smaller than the previous year, the number was still very large. Among them, those officials who remained in office were the largest, accounting for nearly 70% of all arrested corrupt officials. After hearing these data, Yang Peng couldn't help but feel a little emotional. He felt that the system he had established was already very complete, but why did so many people still have to try it by themselves?
After Zhang Xiang finished reading, everyone couldn't help but whisper, and everyone looked very happy. Yang Peng smiled and said: "Okay! The overall situation of the government is still in line with my expectations!" Then he frowned and said: "It's just that the situation of corrupt officials has not dropped significantly compared with the previous year? "
Yang Jing said loudly: "How can an official be so good? If this official was not greedy, sows would be able to climb trees!" Everyone laughed, and Yelu Hanyu said angrily: "Yang Jing, you are like this Even if you say that, we all scolded you!" Kou Yan glared and said, "You Yang Jing, you are talking nonsense! Do you think I am greedy too?"
Yang Jing glanced at Yelu Hanyu with a smile and said: "Sister-in-law is like a fairy, she must be a very good person!" Then he glanced at Kou Yan, snorted and said: "Are you greedy or not, I can't I don’t know! Maybe you are greedy for money, but the eldest sister of the Huang family hasn’t found out yet!” Kou Yan said angrily: “You black guy, you are just a slanderer!” Yang Jing rolled his eyes and said, Looks like he doesn't care.
Yang Peng said angrily to Yang Jing: "Don't make such baseless remarks!" Yang Jing said oh. Yang Peng looked at Han Bing and said, "Han Bing, please tell me about the military situation."
Han Bing agreed, stood up, and said: "At present, the number of our main troops has not changed. It is still the ten major legions, plus the Hanzhong Army. The battle losses of each army have long been replenished. As for the Junfu Army, an increase The Sichuan Military Palace and the Yanjing Military Palace currently have a total of 700 military mansions in seven areas in Shanxi, Henan, Weinan, Weibei, Sichuan, Datong, Ningxia and the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and all military mansions have sufficient personnel. Well, the total strength is about 700,000." Let me explain here that the situation of the direct-affiliated legions of Yanyun's ten major legions is very special. The current directly-affiliated legions have previously incorporated two troops from Yang Jiajun, Gao Jiajun, Cao Jiajun and Yedi Guanyin. Due to the 10,000 cavalry, the total strength now reaches 420,000, which is far from what other legions can compare with.
Han Bing continued: "The situation of the military units of the directly affiliated legion has undergone major changes. The 60,000 cavalry of the Yanjing Legion, which was originally directly under the direct legion, have all been transformed into heavy cavalry, of which 20,000 are the King of Yan's cavalry." The so-called 'directly affiliated legion' The Yanjing Legion' refers to the real direct legion, that is, the 200,000 army after Yang Yanzhao, Cao Jun, Gao Hu and 20,000 Khitan cavalry. Han Bing continued: "Cao Jun's Breaking Front Army and Gao Hu's Falling Army each have their cavalry increased to 10,000. Yang Yanzhao's Volcano Army's cavalry has been expanded to 60,000. These are the changes in the main forces. The other main forces have not changed as before. As for the navy, the strength has not changed, still 50,000, but the number of warships has increased a lot. Among them, the number of cruisers has increased to 120, and the number of other warships has increased by 20,000. More than a hundred.”
After a pause, he continued: "According to King Yan's instructions, the Military Committee discussed the establishment of an ocean-going fleet and passed a resolution. We believe that the navy can be expanded to 60,000 people and divided into two fleets, respectively. It is the main fleet and the ocean fleet. The main fleet still has 50,000 troops and one hundred cruisers. The brother and sister Wang Hai and Wang Rong serve as the chief and deputy commanders. They are responsible for defending Yanyun's ocean and fighting the main force of the enemy's navy; the ocean fleet has Thousands of people, with 20 cruisers, are mainly responsible for protecting our trade routes and defending key overseas fortresses." The so-called key overseas fortresses in Liang Hongyu's mouth refer to the Malacca Fortress currently located in the Strait of Malacca, located in the Kingdom of Ceylon The Ceylon Fortress (now Sri Lanka) is located at the southern tip of Tianzhu. The three overseas fortresses currently controlled by Yanyun are all leased from the local kingdoms. Yanyun is fully responsible for the military and administrative management of them. They are important transit bases for Yanyun merchant ships to conduct overseas trade. and supply base.
Han Bing took out an official document, walked up and presented it to Yang Peng with both hands. The two looked at each other and smiled. Yang Peng took the official document, read it again, and said to Han Bing with a smile: "Since the military committee has formed a resolution, I have no objection." Han Bing took out another book of resolutions and handed it to Yang Peng with both hands. He said: "This is the decision we discussed about the separation of security forces and military forces in various places. I also ask King Yan to take a look at it."
Yang Peng put the resolution in his hand aside, took another resolution book from Han Bing, opened it and read it. The general meaning of this resolution is to completely separate the local security forces from military forces and place them under the jurisdiction of local governments. Prior to this, the local forces responsible for public security in various places were military forces and were managed by the military. This caused a lot of inconvenience. Separating the local security forces and placing them under local jurisdiction has obviously increased the efficiency of local security management.
Yang Peng nodded, "I have no objection." He looked at Han Bing and asked, "Is there anything else?"
Han Bing said: "The last thing is the mobilization of the army. The Military Committee discussed it according to King Yan's proposal, and passed a resolution ordering the mobilization of all the military forces in Sichuan and Henan. At the same time, the Eighth Army Corps was mobilized into Sichuan, and the directly affiliated corps were mobilized. The captured army entered Nanyang, and the two armies were ready in the direction of Nanyang and Sichuan! The food, grass and baggage were also prepared. Some of the reserve officials prepared by the college and the government committee have arrived in Nanyang, and the follow-up work is still being stepped up. ." According to what Han Bing said, there are three legions of the Eighth and Ninth Hanzhong Army in the Sichuan direction, as well as the Xuanjia Army, with a total strength of more than 220,000, while in the Nanyang direction, there are the First and Fourth Army , fifth, sixth, seventh, and the trapped army, six legions, 360,000 troops, with a total force of nearly 600,000 in both directions. This scale can be said to be the largest since Yanyun destroyed Xixia.
Yang Peng thought and nodded. Duan Zhixian laughed and said; "This is really a thunderous momentum!" Yang Peng raised his head, glanced at everyone, and said: "Nanyang coach, I think I will be the one personally! As for Sichuan coach," he looked at Han Bing, "Let Han Bing take the responsibility!" Han Bing was very surprised when he heard this. Yang Peng said: "This matter will be put to a vote now. Those who agree with my proposal should raise their hands."
Except for Yang Peng, all members of the military committee raised their hands. Yang Peng nodded and said, "Okay! Passed unanimously, the matter is settled!" At this time, Han Bing returned to his seat.
Liu Zhiliang clasped his fists and said, "Brother, you and Han Bing's sister-in-law have left Tianjing New City. Who will take charge of Tianjing New City?" Yang Peng looked at Yelu Hanyu and smiled: "Didn't Meier take on this role before? ? This time, Mei'er will still be in charge of Tianjing New City!" Everyone smiled, but Yelu Hanyu looked sad. According to her own wishes, she didn't want to hold this position. She would rather be a small guard accompanying her. Big brother's side.
Yang Peng said loudly: "All cabinet members who agree with my proposal, raise their hands." Everyone present raised their hands, and it was unanimously approved again. Yang Peng looked at Yelu Hanyu and smiled: "Mei'er, I'll leave the important task of supervising the country to you." Yelu Hanyu stood up, came to the main hall, clasped his fists towards Yang Peng and bowed: "Last General Life!"
Immediately, Yang Peng discussed other military and political matters with everyone, including some reform issues. The meeting lasted until noon, and there were still many things that had not been discussed. Everyone had lunch in the main hall, and then continued the meeting and discussion. The meeting didn't end until dusk. The meeting finally set the tone for what should be done in the military and political aspects in the new year and also set new goals.
Yang Peng returned to the backyard and saw that his wives and children were already sitting at the dinner table waiting. Although the three brides had changed into their normal clothes, they were so gorgeous that they stood out. Yang Peng's eyes couldn't help but fall on the beautiful faces of Yan Ji and Luo Yanran, who were extremely beautiful but had completely different temperaments, and he couldn't help but feel intoxicated. The girls stood up to greet each other, Yang Peng sat down, and then the girls sat down again. Chai Yonghui glanced at Luo Yanran and couldn't help but admired: "I didn't expect that sister Yanran would be such a heavenly beauty who is as beautiful as any other in the world! We are all outclassed!"
Luo Yanran hurriedly humbled herself and said: "Sister, thank you. When it comes to being unparalleled in the country and the city, who can be better than my sister!" Chai Yonghui smiled sweetly, glanced at Yang Peng, and said quietly: "Me. , you are already old!" Yang Peng laughed and said: "Nonsense! In the eyes of my eldest brother, you are still the beautiful and refined woman you used to be!" Chai Yonghui was very happy and gave Yang Peng a soft look. Luo Yanran and Yan Ji saw this scene in their eyes and couldn't help but feel happy, because the eldest brother was not a heartless man who loved the new and disliked the old.
Xiao Rui'er opened her big eyes and looked at the faces of her father, mother and aunts, and then curiously asked her father: "Dad, who are you talking about, mother and aunts?" The most beautiful one?"
The beautiful eyes of all the girls looked at Yang Peng with hopeful expressions on their faces. Yang Peng was troubled. If he had to say the most beautiful things, it must be about Yan Ji and Luo Yanran, but he couldn't say this. If he said it like this, wouldn't it make everyone hate her two? Besides, in his own life, In my heart, every wife has her most touching qualities, such as Yang Erya's innocence, Meier's intellectuality, Zhao Jinxi's charm, Han Bing's straightforwardness, Yonghui's gentleness, Lihua's nobility, etc. It's hard to say who is the most touching. So beautiful!
Seeing all the girls looking at him expectantly, he smiled and said, "You are all the most beautiful in my heart! I really can't choose the only one!" Yang Peng's words were naturally being taken advantage of. He thought that everyone would be satisfied, but he didn't expect that after hearing this, everyone would all give him a blank look, looking annoyed. Yang Peng was stunned for a moment, then understood, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Late that night, Yang Peng, who missed the beauty of last night very much, begged the three brides to sleep with each other again, but Luo Yanran refused to do anything, her face was so red that it looked like she was about to bleed! Yang Peng had no choice but to ask her to draw three lots, but Luo Yanran won! Luo Yanran looked at Yang Peng charmingly, and then the two of them walked into the curtain together, loving each other, water flowing, and indescribably beautiful scenery!
On the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the entire Tianjing New City was still immersed in a lively and festive atmosphere, but Yanyun senior officials below Yang Peng had already started working. The governors and generals who came from various places to hold the annual meeting also returned to their respective stations one after another.
Han Bing quickly walked into Yang Peng's study and placed a letter in front of Yang Peng. Yang Peng raised his head, picked up the letter, and asked casually, "Where did it come from?" Han Bing said, "It was forwarded from Yanjing, information about the Japanese!" Yang Peng's heart moved, he opened the envelope, took out the letter paper and read it. Once again, he said with a smile: "Okay! The Japanese have started to do it themselves!" Then he handed the letter to Han Bing, "You can read it too."
Han Bing received the letter, read it over, and said happily: "The Japanese crown prince suddenly attacked Ping Qingsheng, this is really great! This is called 'dog bites dog with two mouths'!" Yang Peng asked with a smile: "Han Bing, What do you think we should do?" Han Bing thought: "Our current goal is to unify Jiangnan, so naturally we cannot be distracted by this matter. However, we can find a way to make it impossible for either of them to win easily!"
Yang Peng smiled and nodded, "It's what I thought!" Then he thought: "Ping Qingmori was first defeated by our army at sea, and then he was attacked by the Japanese prince. The situation was very unfavorable. The main fleet of the navy was ordered Attack the Japanese prince's army with the camera! In addition, Wu Xing can send people to contact Taira Kiyomori. Maybe we can take this opportunity to make a war fortune!"
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
