Time flies, and in a blink of an eye it has been the 16th year of the Great Zhou Republic, that is, the fifth year of the Hezhong period of the Eastern Song Dynasty, the sixth year of the Jingkang period in the Western Song Dynasty, and the 1130th year of the Western Liberation Period.

For most Chinese people living in this era, this year is definitely not a good year.

Because the situation of the three-point division in the world continues, and war broke out again in Henan and Hedong!

In Huang, Huai and Yun governance projects finally came to an end. Wu Yijiu, who was preparing to be re-elected as head of state, launched an attack on the Western Song Dynasty in Hedong and Henan.

According to the vision of the Great Zhoudu Military Control Commission, this would be a limited war with the goal of capturing the entire Hedong and Henan.

Before the war began, the east of the Western Song Dynasty (referring to the east of the Yellow River, excluding Fulin Road located west of the Yellow River), still controlled the volcanic army, Baode army, Kelan army, Lanzhou, Jinning army, Xizhou, Cizhou, Jinzhou, Jiangzhou and other ten prefecture troops, posing a serious threat to the security of the Hedong Autonomous Province of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In the Henan direction, the Western Song Dynasty also controlled the entire territory of Henan Prefecture and Dengzhou, as well as Ruzhou and Tangzhou, and also built Luoyang in Henan Prefecture and Nanyang in Dengzhou into solid bastion-shaped fortresses, as support for the Western Song Dynasty in the Central Plains battlefield.

However, the reason why Wuyijiu launched a war was not the election. In the past five years, Wuyijiu's head of state has done a very good job. Land reform in Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Nanzhi and other places has achieved great success. The funds obtained through land reform (issuance of land mortgage bonds) have effectively guaranteed the construction of the "Huang, Huai, and Yun Water Conservancy Project" and the conquest of Japan.

Therefore, the "Huang, Huai, and Yun Water Conservancy Project" also passed the acceptance at the end of the 14th year of the Republic and was fully completed!

Although the conquest of Japan did not have a final victory, the progress was also quite smooth. Following Kanto and Northeast, five countries including Echigo, Sado, Ekima, Nodon, Kaga, and other five countries in Hokuriku, as well as Suruga, Torii and Kagami along the East China Sea coast, and Kafai countries in Kashishi were all captured by Wu Yiyong!

On the Japanese battlefield, Wu Yiyong's army still maintains a record of complete victory so far.

While winning streaks in military affairs, Takeo Yoshiyong also adopted many political means of inducing surrender. For example, allocating the land of Echigo, Sado, Ekina, Nodon, Kaga, Suruga, Tomyo, Kata, Kata, Kata, Kata, and Kata to Japanese samurai who had made contributions in the Japanese dispatched legion.

Moreover, while dividing the feudal, they also cooperated with the transfer of the feudal, which means enfeoffing the rich families in Kanto and Northeast to Beilu, Jiaxin, Yuanjun and other places.

In this way, more land was freed up in Kanto and Northeast China, which could be allocated to the knights and soldiers of the Central Plains in the past.

According to the plan of the Japanese dispatched military commander, in the future, Japan will have a "one province, two systems", East Japan implements a military citizenship system, and West Japan implements a samurai feudal system.

Any samurai family who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty could obtain a fiefdom in the Western Japan Province and become a vassal under the Japanese province of the Great Zhou Republic.

Through this method, the Great Zhou Dynasty could turn some middle and lower-level samurai with weak national concepts into their own ruling foundation in Japan.

At the same time, Western Japan, which is relatively densely populated, has a very rugged terrain, and has no large plains to be reclaimed, was entrusted to feudal lords to govern, in order to reduce management costs.

With the "Huang, Huai, Yun Engineering" and "Japanese War" as the foundation, Wu Yijiu's second term can be said to be almost certain. There is no need to use the victory of Henan and Hedong to speak.

There is only one reason why he launched a war in Henan and Hedong, which was that the Western Song Dynasty court, which completed the land reform in Guanzhong, Hanzhong, Shaanxi border, Shuofang and other places, was preparing to carry out land reform within the jurisdiction of Henan and Hedong!

Once the land reform in Henan and Hedong is completed, the Western Song Dynasty's power in the Central Plains will be strengthened, and it may pose a threat to the Great Zhou Republic.

So Wu Yijiu was about to take action first and secretly mobilized 300,000 troops to launch a sudden attack on the Western Song territories in Henan and Hedong.

In the direction of Hedong, the war was subject to rugged terrain and proceeded at a slow pace. During the 16th year of the Republic, neither side had much action, but simply used small-scale attacks to constantly test the opponent's trump card.

At the same time, Wu Yijiu also offered generous conditions for the Fulin Zhe family, hoping to win over the pillars of the Song Dynasty in the battlefield in northeastern Hebei.

On the Henan battlefield, the Zhou army's offensive was very fierce. 200,000 troops divided into two groups and rushed straight to Luoyang and Nanyang. They also fought two battles in Xingyang and Ye County, defeating the West Song Jing Road Army that was rushed to mobilize, and soon surrounded Luoyang and Nanyang.

However, these two castles are very difficult to chew and have sufficient reserves. So from the siege of Luoyang and Nanyang, the Henan battlefield also began "slow motion" - now it is in a period of great development of the bastion, and defense is better than offense. Defending a solid bastion does not require much force, but it will be difficult to break it.

In Europe in history, the era of battalions appeared in the 16th and 17th centuries, when wars were often long and inefficient. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the pace of war was significantly accelerated due to the development of artillery technology. Later, static wars such as trench warfare appeared, until the era of mechanized warfare came...

This is how the war model continues to change with the advancement of technology. It is beneficial to defense for one period of time and to attack for another period of time.

In an era that was conducive to defense, the separatist situation of the Great Zhou, Eastern Song and Western Song dynasties could not be changed.

And when the era of attack as king comes, there is no way to avoid the war of unity...

However, people who lived in the early days of the "Post Three Kingdoms" called by later historians far from seeing the hope of unity in the world.

There are still a long and chaotic world waiting for them!

However, it was this long and chaotic era that made the New Zhou and Eastern Song rise into two world empires in the fierce competition in the ocean era.

The 1130th year of the Western calendar was the era when the legends of these two world empires began to reach climax.

In this year, the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou also formulated a plan to explore the new continent that seemed ambitious in later generations and completely changed the world.

It's really exciting!

It's also a bit ridiculous...

The person who is surging is Wu Haogu, and the person who is ridiculous is also him.

Because most people in this era, including Wu Yijiu, the head of the Great Zhou Republic, did not think that the "New World" would have a brilliant future. They did not expect what it means to the Chinese nation to occupy this continent?

Only Wu Haogu knows that the future of all mankind already belongs to China!

The ridiculous reason is that he knew that the Great Zhou Republic had not actually discovered a new continent... Wu Tiexin, who had just been promoted to a lieutenant general because of his contribution to discovering the New World, actually discovered the Kamchatka Peninsula once when he arrived in the Tang Dynasty - the Tang Dynasty called it the Liugui Kingdom, and the chief of the Liugui Kingdom sent people to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute.

In addition, the confused geographers of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty still believe that the new continent they discovered - the Kamchatka Peninsula and Australia - belong to the same continent!

So you have to seize more territory before the other party, or you will suffer a loss...

Looking at a world map of unknown planet, Wu Haogu was really amused and crying... and even had a little doubt: Have you traveled to an alien planet?

"Sir, Zhao Sanlang's letter said that the New World may not be called "Xin Song", but it cannot be called "Xin Zhou", because this continent does not completely belong to any of our two countries... He suggested that the New World be named America!"

"America?"

"The Continent of Beauty." Wu Yijiu said, "You can use the word "Big Sister" to name the newly discovered mainland."

"Oh..." Wu Haogu nodded and thought to himself: The Kamchatka Peninsula and Australia are now both of the Americas? You guys are really good!

Wu Haogu paused and said, "I think it's OK, just call it America!"

Wu Yijiu smiled and said, "In addition, the two countries should also avoid conflicts on the American continent."

Wu Haogu was almost amused by this topic - one is on the Kamchatka Peninsula and the other is in Australia, conflicts are so bad? It takes intercontinental missiles to reach it! Do you have that thing?

Looking at Wu Haogu's smiling face, Wu Yijiu thought to himself: The old man still feels sorry for his daughter, but he is afraid that his elder sister will be angry...

"So the two countries plan to sign an agreement." Wuyi said, "my country is from Japan to the northeast to explore the Americas. The Song State went south from Bali and Sandalwood Island to explore the Americas.

The dividing line between the two countries on the American continent shall be based on the location where the two countries' pioneering groups meet."

Then it's not accurate... Wu Haoguxin said: How could one meet from the Kamchatka Peninsula and the other go to Australia?

"Okay, that's fine." Wu Haogu nodded.

Wuyi Jiuji continued: "So we have to start quickly, otherwise the territory will be snatched away by the people of Song."

"It's faster." Wu Haogu asked, "Where is it going now? Should a chamber of commerce be established for development?"

Wu Yijiu shook his head: "The chamber of commerce does not need it... Because there is no fuel and no businessman is willing to invest money in it. Therefore, the initial development will be undertaken by the government."

"The stronghold has been established in Yinzhou," Wu Yijiu said again, "The name is Liangshan Town, and there are 108 immigrants."

"Liangshan, 108..." Wu Haogu thought for a while, "Who are they?"

"It's all rebels!" Wu Yijiu said, "I should have been beheaded, but now I'll send them to Yinzhou once they die. This year, I'm going to send another group of criminals and Japanese women to the place so that Liangshan Town can be more popular. The next step is to reclaim or fish around Liangshan Town. If food self-sufficiency can be achieved, Liangshan Town will become a stronghold for us to continue to explore eastward."
Chapter completed!