In the 100th year of the Great Song Dynasty, in the 1226th year of the Western calendar, when the news that Temujin, a genius in the West, once again surrounded Brusa, the last stronghold of the Western Liao Empire, reached Jiangning Prefecture, the United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty was under the rule of the fifth generation of kings, Zhao Kuang, who did not manage much.

The official name of the Eastern Song Dynasty was also "Song", not a United States. The naming method of adding political systems and national names was not popular in East Asia. Therefore, the official name of the Great Zhou Dynasty was not the Great Zhou Republic, but "Zhou".

However, the Eastern Song and Great Zhou dynasties marked their entirety in a special way, that is, the year name.

Unlike the emperor of the Western Song Dynasty who used several reigns, the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty used the same reigns from beginning to end.

The reign of the Great Zhou Dynasty was "Republic", which showed that its political system was a republic system for the whole world to be public.

The reign of the Eastern Song Dynasty was "Hezhong", which shows that the country must unite the power of the people to exist.

Since it is "universal", there is no possibility of "one man".

Therefore, Zhao Kuang, the official family of the Song Dynasty, was a constitutional monarch based on the standards of later generations.

He lives in a very luxurious palace decorated with enviable wealth, as well as a beautiful queen and concubine. He is served by a large number of servants every day, and lives elegantly and leisurely. He almost doesn't have to deal with any major national affairs... There has never been any emperor in charge of serious affairs in the Eastern Song Dynasty. Even the founding king Zhao Kai didn't care about anything. The major national affairs were discussed by the Queen Wu Meiniang and representatives elected by the 18 Hezhongzhou.

After Zhao Kai's death, Empress Wu was the governor of the court again, and he still negotiated with representatives of the states of Hezhong.

After Wu Meiniang passed away, the Eastern Song Dynasty entered the era of Prime Minister's administration.

The subsequent generations of Eastern Song emperors focused their main energy on enjoying their lives and managing the new Song Dynasty, and they did not care much about their own politics.

Of course, they don’t have to worry about usurping the throne or something. Because there is no unified power center under the united system, there is naturally no possibility of coup seizing power in the central government.

It was unimaginable that Zhao Kuangyin had done in Chenqiao Post in the Eastern Song Dynasty, and no one would buy it in the 50 Hezhong Prefectures.

Moreover, the military backbone force that maintained the Eastern Song Dynasty was not the army, but the navy.

The navy was born with inconvenience to engage in a coup. Navy soldiers got off the boat and went to fight Jiangning Castle? That was the largest and most solid bastion in the world! How could a group of sailors fight?

The army stationed in the bastion was in turn subject to the Yangtze River Fleet of the Eastern Song Navy.

Without the Yangtze River Fleet, Jiangning Castle is just an isolated island, and there is no supply of food. What kind of mutiny is there?

Therefore, under the system of unity and sea and land restraint, the emperor of the Eastern Song Dynasty had no possibility of being overthrown by ambitious people. You can trust the power to the Prime Minister and the Parliament of the United States to enjoy life by yourself.

However, there are some disadvantages in the long run away from power by the emperor, which is that the authority of the Central Committee of the Eastern Song Dynasty was unable to be established for a long time and the entire country was very loose.

Because the country is too loose, it is impossible to gather and form a strong combat power. Therefore, the Eastern Song Dynasty clearly had a population and financial resources comparable to that of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but it seemed very weak in the post-Three Kingdoms era.

This country has never launched an attack on the lands of the Western Song or Great Zhou. During the two Central Plains wars, the Eastern Song Dynasty was passively beaten.

Even if the Yangtze River Fleet beat the navy of the Western Song Dynasty, it would not cross the thunder pool and enter the Yangtze River surface owned by the Western Song Dynasty to fight.

Of course, the weakness of the Eastern Song Dynasty was only compared to the two super tyrants, the Western Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty. When treating other countries in the world, it was completely disgusting with imperialist powers.

In fact, during the century of the establishment of the Eastern Song Dynasty, this imperialist country launched more aggressive wars than the Great Zhou Republic!

Including Zhenla, Siam, Bagan, Ceylon, Polo, Zhunian, Pandiya, Zhalochi, Bali, Sanfoci, Zagvi (Ethiopia), Dashi-Seljuk, Ghana, Mali, and even the Caliphate territories of Portugal and Cordoba on the European continent have suffered from the invasion of Eastern Song imperialism... I don’t know how many unequal treaties have been taken.

As for those indigenous peoples that had not yet established civilized countries, more were bullied by the imperialism of the Eastern Song Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to describe the bad things they have done innumerable books!

Last night, Zhao Kuang, who had been fooled with a few Persian dancers until late at night, slept in as usual today, and did not get up until midnight. After washing up, he used lunch again. He was almost Shenshi and summoned Prime Minister Shi Miyuan in his Changle Palace.

Zhao Kuang, the emperor who ignored the government, knew that he was a foolish emperor who spent money and enjoyment. The prime minister used by the foolish emperor was naturally also a traitor. This Shi Miyuan is a recognized traitor!

The reason why he was elected was not because of his high moral character, nor because of his outstanding contribution or talent, but because of his good at party struggles.

A gentleman is not a party or something, but it has long been a joke in the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty.

The politics of these two countries emphasizes party struggles!

Among them, the administration and legislation of the Great Zhou Dynasty were separated to a certain extent. Although the head of state was also elected by the elders, the term of office of the head of state was as long as five years, and it was difficult to knock the head of state off before the expiration of the term of office.

Because impeachment of the head of state requires more than two-thirds of the veterans to vote for it!

Under such circumstances, the administration of the Great Zhou Dynasty was relatively stable, and the party struggles did not seem very fierce.

The Eastern Song Dynasty implemented a system similar to the responsible cabinet, and administrative legislation was tied together. The Prime Minister only needed to lose the support of a simple majority in the parliament and would face resignation.

At the same time, the 50 states united the political system is very conducive to the growth of local political factions. Therefore, the Privy Council of the Eastern Song Dynasty was full of small and medium-sized parties, unlike the Senate of the Great Zhou Republic, which was basically the "Republican Party" and "Publican Party" (the original monarchist faction). Instead, there are dozens of small parties, and no one can control the majority of the parliament.

In this case, politicians who are good at joining forces and engaging in political transactions can often stand out and get the opportunity to become prime ministers.

Therefore, many black box operations were inevitable in the politics of the Eastern Song Dynasty, and Shi Miyuan was a master of playing black box politics. Therefore, he became a tumbler in the political arena of the Eastern Song Dynasty and controlled the throne of prime minister for ten consecutive years.

However, after this politician who is good at engaging in black box politics has only been stumbled after he won the throne of prime minister. He has been in power for ten years and cannot produce any political achievements. The only thing that can be boasted about is that he has launched several wars of aggression against the Kingdom of Polo, Kingdom of Zhunian, and Kingdom of Zhenla.

Anyway, they are bullying the weak, extorting some compensation, occupying a few concessions, and signing several unequal treaties.

Today, Shi Miyuan appeared in front of Zhao Kuang again with a spring breeze on his face and bowed to Zhao Kuang according to etiquette.

"Qing Shi, is there any happy event?" Zhao Kuang asked Shi Jie with a smile.

"Report to Your Majesty," Shi Miyuan smiled, "The Ministry of Rites just received an urgent document from Egypt. The army of the Mongolian Khan Temujin surrounded Brusa, the capital of Western Liao for the third time."

"Oh, is this a happy event?" Zhao Kuang was stunned.

"Of course it's a happy event," Shi Miyuan explained, "According to Wu Zi'an's report, Brussala will most likely be out of control this time. The Western Liao Dynasty will only be destroyed. Once the Western Liao Dynasty is destroyed, the Mongols will attack Eastern Rome. At that time, the entire Europe will be involved in the war with Mongolia.

And our Song Dynasty has the opportunity to open up more concessions in Europe and sign more trade treaties."

Now Europe, especially Western Europe, has become the focus of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song colonial competition. Both countries are trying their best to knock on the doors of European countries. If Temujin attacks the territory of Eastern Rome, it will obviously be a good thing for the Great Zhou and Eastern Song colonial activities of Europe.

Zhao Kuang nodded, "This is a happy event, but it doesn't mean much... Shi Qing, is there anything else to say about fun?"

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Now, about 10 years have passed with Temujin in Yileiburg. During these 10 years, the Great Mongolian Kingdom wisely adopted the strategy of dragging east and attacking west.

The so-called Eastern Tow is to adopt scorched earth delay tactics to fight against the Western Song Dynasty on the battlefield in the Central Asian region in the East and resolutely avoid decisive battles.

Under the guidance of this strategic idea, the Mongolian army commanded by Chagatai never suffered a great loss like the Battle of Yiliebao. At the same time, it also effectively delayed the advancement speed of the Western Song army.

So far, the Western Song army has just advanced to the Chachi area and finally lifted the "long encirclement" of the new Liangzhou of the Xiliang Kingdom for more than ten years.

However, the Western Expedition, which lasted for more than ten years, also made the Western Song Dynasty feel a little tasteless and a pity to abandon it.

The reason why it was tasteless was that the Mongols' scorched earth tactics made it difficult for the Song army to obtain wealthy land and cities. The ones taken down were all deserted and sparsely populated.

It is very difficult to reclaim barren land. If it is a desert oasis, it will directly destroy the ecology and it will be impossible to restore it.

And the lack of people means that the military tyrants in the Western Song Dynasty have no targets of enslavement!

Without working people, the master has to work on his own. How fortunate is this?

It’s a pity to abandon it because the territory of the Ili River Valley, the Suye River Valley and the Chachi Plain is really good. These territory are all around the Tianshan Mountains and Gisar-Alay Mountains, and there are three major rivers, the Ili River, the Suye River and the Huzhang River (Sir River) that flow through the above areas.

In addition, there is also the melting snow from Tianshan Mountain that constantly replenishes water for these lands.

The land in the Western Regions is actually relatively fertile. Although it is not as good as the black soil, it is much fertile than the Guanlong Central Plains where the land power has been exhausted for more than 1,000 or more years. As long as there is water, it is a good place.

Moreover, the three lands in the Yili River Valley, the Zaiye River Valley, and the Chachi Plain are very open, and the three lands plus one are several times larger than the Guanzhong Plain. If all of them are reclaimed, there will be 100 million mu of arable land.

In addition, in the northwest of the Suye River Valley, there are the Qihe Land and the Qincha Grassland. It is an endless and prosperous grassland! Compared to the northern Mobei near the Central Plains, the grasslands in the south of the Mobei are much richer.

Because the grassland is too rich, the barbarians who originally lived there (the foreign Mongols are more fierce) were also easier to deal with. Before the Mongols invaded, handicraft products produced in Xinliangzhou and other places could be exchanged for many cattle, sheep and horses from those barbarians.

For the Western Song Dynasty, which did not have many good territory (only the Sichuan Basin and the Jianghan Plain in the Western Song Dynasty were considered good), these green lands in Central Asia were quite attractive.

Therefore, it is impossible to give up the Central Asian territory that the Western Song Dynasty has won, so it has to bite the bullet and develop it.

While occupying and developing, we also have to immigrate and set up vassal kings, and of course we have to argue with Xiliang.

The Western Song Dynasty's pace in Central Asia naturally slowed down.

In Chachi, west of Fergana, because the climate is dryer without the nourishment of the Tianshan Mountains of snow, there are no more moist areas like the Ili River Valley, the Zachi Plain, and the rich territories are all oasis of large and small, which are very easy to destroy. Therefore, the war in Central Asia has entered a stalemate.

Temujin, who doesn't have to worry about another change in Central Asia, can now devote all his energy to the conquest of the Asia Minor Peninsula.

By the way, Temujin in this time and space is not as cruel as history. He is not a barbarian born in the bitter and cold land by the Onan River, but a European who grew up on the Ural River.

The Eastern European grasslands and Mongolian grasslands are not the same as each other!

Although Temujin also lost her father since she was a child, she had never endured the real hunger and coldness, and she did not kill her brother for a fish. The Temujin family lived in Qiyan Castle. They had the inheritance left by Yesuge and did not have to worry about food and drink at all.

Moreover, he converted to Guangming Tian Poeticism since he was a child, received a good education in the school of Guangming Church, and his evil nature was greatly restrained.

Although Temujin suffered a lot in the Oishi Guard Youth League, the hardships of training and the sufferings of wandering the desert grasslands were simply incomparable.

Therefore, different growth experiences also gave Temujin a different understanding of the "scorched earth tactics".

Although he ordered the destruction of many oasis and cities in Central Asia, he did not massacre the residents there. Instead, he moved them to the Qiyanbao area and relocated them. As a monarch of a civilized country, he certainly knew the importance of population to the Great Mongolian Kingdom. He also knew the importance of agricultural production in fact that the Mongols who moved to the Ural River were no longer nomadic, but instead settled pastoral and farming, and became settled nations.

The migrated Central Asian farmers have obtained land in the Ural River Basin and the northern shore of the Caspian Sea. Handicraftsmen and merchants have become residents of Qiyan Castle.

Qiyan Fort has also developed and has become a big city in the lower reaches of the Ural River.

The nobles and craftsmen who were able to produce weapons were moved to Tabriz and became officials and craftsmen of the Khan.

With the help of craftsmen from Central Asia and Persia, Temujin's army was able to establish a temporary artillery casting workshop outside the city of Brusa, and cast more than ten super-caliber siege artillery on the spot. In addition, the heavy artillery produced by the Great Zhou and Western Song dynasties purchased by Mongolia through Egypt.

The Mongolian army now has the means to destroy the defense of Brusa City!

The end of the Western Liao Empire has finally arrived.
Chapter completed!