In early December of the third year of Zhenghe in the Song Dynasty, Tianjin City.

Although the Jiehe River has been frozen, the streets of Tianjin are still bustling as always. Tianjin citizens are wearing winter clothes made of wool or filled with cotton, surging shoulder to shoulder on the streets. There are also many travelers and merchants from foreign countries, wearing their own ethnic costumes, walking on the streets while looking around. It is also a unique scenic spot in Tianjin.

Tianjin is undoubtedly an open city now, with a wide range of rivers and a great place to accommodate. This city does not reject any visitors from afar.

Merchants from the Song Dynasty, the Great Liao, the grassland, the Jin Dynasty, Goryeo, Annan, Dali, Tubo, the Western Regions, the South Ocean, the Indian, and even the extremely distant Dashi, Persia, Sinai, and Rome were all looking for opportunities to make a fortune in this dreamlike metropolis located at the intersection of the Maritime Silk Road and the Land Silk Road. At the same time, they also brought the knowledge and technology they mastered.

By the way, Tianjin has many ways to encourage technological innovation and reward inventions, such as issuing bonuses, granting patent rights (executed through guilds). At the same time, it also encourages pirated copies of unique external technologies. For example, high-value rewards have been offered for advanced foreign technologies such as "glass" and "Uz Steel". Now some gains have been made, and some glass craftsmen and blacksmiths from India, Cairo, Persia, and Damascus have become new Tianjin people. They have brought relatively mature crucible iron smelting and the process of making glass by hand blowing drum.

In addition to merchants and craftsmen, there are also scholars, warriors, advocates, monks, and even politicians and nobles who took refuge, who all regarded this place as their second hometown.

Today, Tianjin has vaguely become the style of Chang'an City in the heyday of the Tang Empire.

Oh, in fact, except for the population that is not as good as Chang'an, other aspects of Tianjin, such as handicraft production, commercial environment, transportation, legal system, academic research, etc., are all far surpassing the imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty.

If we look at it from the perspective of civilization progress alone, Tianjin, which is about to become the capital of the bourgeois republic, has stood at the peak of China's three thousand years of history, and at the peak of the world!

Standing by the windowsill of the large study on the fourth floor of the Zheng Government (who will soon be the Head of the Palace) building in a corner of Republic Square, Wu Haogu looked at the city he created with satisfaction.

There were a few people sitting in the study, including He Tianran, Zhang Zhifeng, Lu Renjia, and Zhao Jiaren who had just arrived from Yanshan Prefecture (he was the prefect of Yanshan for a while).

"In power, the draft of the new version of the Republic Constitution has been drafted according to your wishes. Too specific items have been classified into small laws such as Civil Law, Criminal Law, Citizen Law, Political Law, and Official Law. The Constitution explains why the emperor should be abolished and the republic should be implemented in a pledge, and regulates the rights and responsibilities of the governments of the Republic, citizens of the Republic, and common people, and particularly highlights the concept of the government serving the people and citizens serving the country..."

The person who was speaking was Zhang Zhifeng, who presided over the drafting of the Constitution. Although he was considered an expert in the law and had participated in the legislative work in Youzhou, he still had no experience in drafting the fundamental law such as the Constitution, and even lacked concepts.

So at the beginning, he wanted to create an all-encompassing law in accordance with the "Song Zhengtong" method. As a result, the first version of the "Constitution" draft was very complicated, with many fragmented provisions, like a hodgepodge.

However, with the revision of one edition after another, and the drafting of small laws such as "Civil Law", "Criminal Law", "Citizen Law", "Control Political Law", and "Official Law". Zhang Zhifeng, He Tianran and others have become clearer and clearer.

The so-called fundamental Dharma is more like "contract", "swear" and "discussion" than "fa", etc.

The latest version of the Republican Constitution is really quite good.

However, Wu Haogu seemed a little absent-minded today. From the beginning of the meeting, he had been wandering around the window, and from time to time he would open the window and look out.

Outside the window is the Republic Square. Since Tianjin Bei City has developed rapidly in recent years, it has a vague sense of being comparable to Nan City. Therefore, the Republic Square, located at the northernmost part of Tianjin Nan City and backed by the Border River, has become a veritable city center.

A wide Gonghe Avenue passes through Gonghe Square, and crosses the north and south cities of Tianjin, from Xuanwu Gate, the north gate of Tianjin Beishi, and all the way to Chongwen Gate, the south gate of Tianjin Nanshi. Because the road is wide and directly leads to the important place of Gonghe Square, the Yima and cavalry that conveys the message from the Dujunmaster usually enters the city from Xuanwu Gate or Chongwen Gate, and then goes straight to Gonghe Square along Gonghe Street.

Wu Haogu occasionally opened the window and looked out, obviously waiting for the Yima to send him some news.

But what important news will spread to Tianjin recently?

The few people in the room were a little strange.

It's winter now, and the north has been frozen for thousands of miles, and it's not the time for war.

Kaifeng Prefecture, which is in the south, is probably busy celebrating the New Year Festival now? There shouldn’t be any big moves.

Could it be that Tao Jiefu, the immortal man, is still planning a conspiracy?

When a few people were wondering, a few strong horses passed over the Republic Bridge (actually several floating bridges) and rushed into the empty Republic Square. The first knight had a white flag on his back. It should be the 600-mile emergency transmission sent by the Xuanhua Prefecture Defense Department!

Xuanhua Prefecture is a newly established prefecture in the process of Yan and Liao sorting out the prefectures. It is located on the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain and on the north side of Yanshan Prefecture. It is almost the area of ​​Zhangjiakou City in later generations. It is the gateway to Yan land and is also an important town connecting the Xijing Road of Liao Kingdom.

The person who served as the defensive envoy there was Wu Haogu's confidant Wu Chenglan. He sent 600 miles of emergency transmission today. I don't know what urgent matters happened?

...

A burst of rapid footsteps sounded, and then the voice of Wu Zhijie, a son of Wu Chengjiu (Wu Haogu's early follower, now the head of Wujiakou Commercial City).

"In power, Wujiakou urgently reported."

Wujiakou urgently reported?

Could it be that Empress Xiao of the Khitan took the wrong medicine and sent troops to attack Wujiakou and was almost at the pass?

The few people in the room, except Wu Haogu, were all confused.

"Come in!"

Wu Zhijie pushed the door and walked in. This was a young man who looked very agile. He had just graduated from the Knights Academy and had not left the army. He went directly to Wu Haogu as an opportunity.

He handed a wax-sealed envelope to Wu Haogu.

Wu Haogu took it over, tore off the wax seal, took out the letter paper inside, first looked at it ten lines at a glance, then looked at it carefully word by word, and finally laughed.

"What happened to rule?" Zhao Jiaren looked at Wu Haogu with some surprise.

Wu Haogu smiled: "Empress Xiao gave birth to a son!"

Did the Queen Mother give birth to a son?

Why does this matter sound so wrong?

The few people in the room were staring at Wu Haogu in a daze.

Wu Haogu smiled and explained: "It's Yelu Yanxi's posthumous son."

Posthumous son...

A few people are still strange. Yelu Yanxi has a posthumous son. Why are you so happy with Wu Haogu?

This is strange!

Wu Haogu also felt that he shouldn't be so happy. What's there to be happy about? Empress Dowager Xiao's son could not be surnamed Wu. He helped Yelu Yanxi pass on his family line, just like a living...

Although this matter is a bit of a loss, Wu Haogu still misses Empress Xiao these days. She has a broad mind. Now that she has a child, I am afraid she will be more generous, right?

Well, he coughed, Wu Haogu was already serious.

"Empress Xiao is going to go to Yuanyang to have a winter vacation," said Wu Haogu, "and I also want to meet with me in Wujiakou Commercial Market to discuss the affairs of the three alliances."

It was not only Wu Haogu who was in a hurry to meet, but also Empress Dowager Xiao wanted Wu Haogu to see the illegitimate son as soon as possible.

At the same time, she had a lot of troubles and asked Wu Haogu for help.

During these days, her life as the empress dowager was really hard, and she had a lot of internal and external troubles. The Khitan nobles were dissatisfied with each other, and the three tribes of the Seijin, Menggu and Kelie were attacked. Even the city of Linhuangfu in Beijing was defeated by Wanyan Agu in the autumn!

As soon as he was thrown into the capital, Empress Dowager Xiao faced great pressure from the Liao Dynasty. Therefore, the reason why the Yuanyanglu and his party claimed to the outside world was to gather troops to recover Linhuangfu in the spring of the following year!

"Three alliances?" Zhao Jiaren asked, "Which three are they?"

"Of course it's our Zhou Kingdom, Empress Xiao's Liao Kingdom, and the Song Dynasty in the south." Wuhao Ancient Road, "Empress Xiao hopes to form an alliance of three families and no longer attack each other in the future."

"Reign," Zhao Jiaren frowned, "We have an alliance with the Jin Kingdom..."

Wu Haogu said: "In the alliance with the Jin Kingdom, we only have the joint attack on Liao, and there is no provision that peace should not be made separately.

Now the Liao people have withdrawn from Yan territory, and the Han family in Liaodong has also withdrawn from the Jurchen territory. We and the Jurchen have both established a country, and the purpose of the alliance has been achieved, so it should naturally be invalid."

The Youzhou and Jurchens covenant were drafted by legal experts, so of course they would not put too many rules and regulations on themselves.

Moreover, even if Wu Haogu turned against the alliance and abandoned the righteousness, the Jurchens had no choice but to do anything to him. Zhou State was the violent Zhou Dynasty that was so happy when he heard the war, and it was not a weak Song Dynasty. The Jurchens hurried in the bitter and cold land in the north. Wu Haogu might have no choice but to do anything to them. He really wanted to go south and keep it until they were extinct!

Wu Haogu paused, "The new version of the Constitution is very good. You can go to the senators to discuss it. If everyone agrees, when I come back from Wujiabao, I will pass in the senate. I won't be there for too long, and I will definitely come back before New Year's Eve.

With the Constitution, we can establish the Zhou Kingdom by choosing a day in the first month of next year... The year name will be established as a republic, and it will not be easier in the future. Next year will be the first year of the republic, and the future will be until the thousandth year of the republic, and ten thousand years of the republic!"

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Chapter completed!