After the red moon, Zejun returned to peace, and everyone was busy for their livelihood or interests. Formal establishment of diplomatic relations with the Lin tribe, the maritime trade representing Jiang's country will enter a prosperous period; peace talks with Liang states, representing Jiang's country will also be less exploited in the future.

It seems that as long as you use your brain and have some tricks, you can find money anywhere in Jiangguo.

Stabilization and prosperity will allow a large number of people to migrate into the territory of Jiangguo. This will bring a large amount of labor to Jiangguo and fill the artificial vacancies after the market has expanded. Among these migrant populations, there will inevitably be many talented people or painters.

The turmoil within the Great Wei Empire also caused many officials and wealthy businessmen to transfer their wealth to the Jiang Kingdom.

Investigating Jiang's true strength at this time is another task for Tang Mi to come to Jiang's country.

From Dijing to Zejun, Tang Mi did not choose to fly, so she just took a carriage south. After staying in Dijing for a long time, the situation outside was impossible to see the truth based on intelligence alone.

This time, Tang Mi really saw clearly what the Great Wei Empire looks like today.

To be honest, she knew that the empire was no longer as powerful as before, and natural disasters and man-made disasters continued to overdraw the empire's vitality. Empress Jing was determined to reorganize the court, but the aristocratic families had become powerful. The officials in the court were just puppets they supported, and no matter how many investigations were conducted, they would not hurt their roots.

Moreover, these aristocratic families have publicly and secretly supported rebels everywhere, making the empire exhausted and unable to deal with them.

Wars continue, and the people live in poverty... This is the most vivid description of the Great Wei Empire at this time.

Seeing that the entire village was out of sight, Tang Mi truly realized how far the crisis of the empire had reached.

If you want to solve the fundamental problem, you can only support the scenery and become emperor as soon as possible.

At that time, all enemies and friends will be cleared, and some things will not need to be covered up.

However, when becoming emperor, he had to consider the reactions of the nine vassal states. They all had their own troops and watched the rise and fall of the empire coldly. Now the remaining power of the empire can still intimidate them and dare not act recklessly. But if Empress Jing rashly proclaimed himself emperor, the entire internal chaos within the empire would have to consider the reactions of these vassal states.

Among the nine vassal states, Jiang Guo has the most important position and the strongest...

After walking into the boundaries of Jiang Kingdom, Tang Mi realized how powerful Jiang Kingdom was.

On the border between the Empire and the Jiang Kingdom, the imperial army could no longer maintain control of the border. A large number of troops were dispatched to suppress the rebellion, which made the organization of the imperial border guarding army barely maintain half of it.

Moreover, there was insufficient money and food, and the military pay was delayed for two months. The morale of the army was extremely low, and patrol was just a symbolic walk.

Tang Mi looked at the arsenal of the border towns again... It was so empty that even rats didn't come.

The military officers who were held accountable and on duty stretched out their hands: I paid the military pay I owe first. I tried my best to let my brothers have a meal. If you dare to arrest me today, I will guarantee that there will be no soldiers in this city tomorrow. The soldiers from Jiang Kingdom opposite him will have good food and good clothes, and the military pay will be paid in full. If it weren't for the family here and we wouldn't be able to bear the ancestral property, we would have wanted to vote over.

Information shows that Jiang State is luring outstanding officers and soldiers from the empire to join. It seems that this is true.

Of course, Tang Mi did not have the power to investigate and deal with military officers. This case is not as simple as investigating and dealing with a military officer. It is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it may end up in the end.

So Tang Mi wrote all his experiences and heard along the way to the imperial capital in a secret memorial, urging Jinghou to raise military salaries for the border troops as soon as possible to stabilize the morale of the army, and then cross the border and enter the territory of Jiangguo.

Compared with the current situation of the empire, Jiang Kingdom is really a world.

It is far from Zejun, the capital of Jiangguo. You can see a lot of things just by looking at the border town.

Outside the border town, refugees from all over the country were crowded with refugees from Jiangguo. The border troops of Jiangguo were fully equipped, and even the lowest soldiers had three scrolls in their painting bags.

On the top of the city, there were crossbows and cannons; in the sky, there were pegasus and cavalry and painters inspecting each other.

Under such military intimidation, the refugees did not dare to be at all casual, and they all lined up in line for the officials of the Jiang Kingdom to arrange their places.

Outside the team, there were more than ten large pots of rice porridge. The pot was boiled with sticky rice porridge and kept supplying them to hungry refugees. In addition to the porridge, each person could also receive a cake, and children and pregnant women could receive an extra fish or a piece of jerky meat.

At the end of the team were officials sent by various counties in Jiangguo to receive refugees. In addition to Ze County, the seven counties and cities in Jiangguo arranged stations here, and they were responsible for taking these refugees into their own counties and arranging residences and work for them.

Among them, Bonan County has the longest team and the most people.

When recruiting refugees in other counties, they will pick and choose when asking in detail what they will do, how many people in the family, whether there are elderly people and children.

Bonan County...if you are a person, you will accept it.

This is just a border town in Jiangguo. From here, we can see that Jiangguo has very sufficient food; a large amount of work lacks manpower, especially Bonan County, which has been in a state of expansion on the south bank of Taijiang, and is extremely hungry for the population.

Also, the Jiang Kingdom's army is well-trained and well-equipped. With this strength, it is hard to imagine what kind of strong army the Fourth Palace Guards and the Imperial Guards are among the elites of the Jiang Kingdom.

Tang Mi sent someone to present Jiang Guobian General with a clearance certificate and asked for a bowl of porridge, a cake, and a fish to eat in the carriage.

Alas...this is what refugees eat.

Many armies of the Empire cannot achieve this kind of daily meals. If they really fight... will they be opponents of the Jiang army?

On August 26, 623, the empire's special envoy Tang Mi arrived in Zejun. King Jiang held a pilgrimage to welcome the envoy to the palace, and held a banquet to welcome the envoys to the empire and praise the emperor.

At the banquet, Tang Bi wrote a complete chapter, and all kinds of ancient sayings and famous quotes were readily written. In a short time, he left the image of a handsome young man for the monarch and ministers of the Jiang Kingdom, and also made them know this Lord Tang Bi who had never appeared in the imperial officialdom.

Tang Mi, who was carefully disguised as a man, unfolded his own painting scroll of the heavens and performed a sword dance in front of King Jiang, which also made everyone realize that he was already a 14th-level painter.

It also reminded the monarchs and ministers of Jiangguo to think of Chunyu Jin who had traveled alone in the mountains.

She also became the master of painting at this age.

If Chunyu Jin was there, Tang Mi would definitely not be able to steal all the glory of today.

At the same time, the monarchs and ministers of Jiang Kingdom also felt that the Great Wei Empire was indeed profound. Although it showed signs of decline, the lean camel was bigger than a horse. He sent a special envoy who was not famous and was such a young painter. I wonder how many hidden talents there were in the empire.
Chapter completed!