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August.

When the yellow-cold corn cob was put away from the experimental field, Li Yan's heart finally fell completely!

Corn transplantation in China was successful!

Li Yan highly rewarded all the agricultural researchers.

Not only that, after the Ministry of Transport, Education and Health, Li Yan established the Ministry of Agriculture and focused on establishing the Agricultural Research Institute, committed to improving all existing crops, and Li Yan wanted to personally take charge of this matter.

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At first, Li Yan separated the six traditional ministries from the Ministry of Transport, Education, Health and Agriculture, just to show his importance to these departments.

But in the eyes of many politically sensitive people, Li Yan is preparing to restructure.

Wen Huanzhang, Zhao Ding and others, who had the highest political sensitivity, asked to meet Li Yan at the first time and talked about this matter.

After this chat, Li Yan really had the idea of ​​reform.

At present, Dazhong's territory is already quite large.

The key is that it is very scattered.

Moreover, the current transportation and communication are relatively backward.

Therefore, it is very difficult to manage.

Therefore, if you want to manage this huge territory well, you must start from the system.

After Li Yan talked repeatedly with his ministers, he divided some departments from the traditional six ministries.

For example:

Li Yan broke the tradition that had been around for thousands of years and specially established a Ministry of Commerce to be in charge of domestic and foreign trade, and handed over the Ministry to the Secretary of the Central Committee to the direct management.

Li Yan specially established the Development and Reform Department, responsible for national development and reform, and is also under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Central Secretariat.

Li Yan divided taxation from local power and established a separate State Administration of Taxation, which was managed by the Three Departments.

Li Yan delegated the customs from local powers and established a separate General Administration of Customs, which was under the management of the three departments.

Li Yan specially established the Supervision Department, which is under the management of the Censorate.

Li Yan specially established the Audit Office, which is under the management of the Censorate.

Li Yan officially established the Ministry of Science and Technology and vigorously developed science and technology. Although the Ministry of Science and Technology is nominally affiliated with the Ministry of Industry, Li Yan was also personally in charge.

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In this restructuring, Li Yan mainly refines the power of the central government based on some departments he knew in later generations, breaking up the six traditional departments and turning them into more than a dozen departments, allowing them to check and balance each other and supervise each other, so as to avoid one party being dominant. At the same time, he collected the local financial power and increased the power of the supervision department, making its power second only to the subordinates of the Secretariat, the Privy Council, and the Three Departments, and became the fourth largest power department in the Dazhong.

To put it bluntly, Li Yan is to further strengthen centralization and increase the cohesion of the country.

Because this restructuring Li Yan did not have the power to slaughter the priests, and even increased their power, which made the priests very motivated and constantly helped Li Yan improve the framework formulated by Li Yan.

Time passes slowly in the process of reforming Dazhong.

During this process, the battlefield situation on the northern front seemed to have a delicate balance - the Eastern Route Army, Yue Fei tried many times in several months, but failed to capture Yanjing, which had many dangerous passes and was stationed by the world's first general Wanyan Xie himself. After the Western Route Army, Liu Qi and Han Shizhong captured Shuozhou and Yingzhou, the Jin army changed their tactics. They relied on their first cavalry in the world, never confronted the central army head-on, but just kept harassing left and right. In other words, if they could beat them, the Jin cavalry would fight. If they couldn't beat them, the Jin cavalry would run away. The Shuobei Plain was a flat horse, which was greatly beneficial to the Jin cavalry's tactics. Therefore, there was not much progress on the Western Front at present.

At the end of September, the Xixia bride-sending team sent the Yinchuan Princess, Xiping Princess (Liang Xianxian) and Huining Princess (Liang Shishi) from Xixia to Tokyo Bianliang.

The Dazhong court held a grand ceremony for Li Yan, Li Qinglu, Liang Xianxian and Liang Shishi.

At the same time, Zhongxia also began to carry out the Zhongxia Alliance.

The alliance treaty is roughly as follows:

Dazhong recognized Daxia as a country, and the two sides had equal contact with each other, and were a country of brothers (Dazhong was brother and Daxia was younger). Li Yan and Li Ganshun became brothers of different surnames (although Li Yan was young, he was still brother, and although Li Ganshun was eight years older than Li Yan, he was younger). In other words, Dazhong was a little taller than Daxia.

The Xia army withdrew from Shaanxi and returned the previously occupied Zhenwu City, Xi'an Prefecture, Linzhou Jianning Village, Huaide Army, Tiandu Village, and Lanzhou.

Dazhong admitted that Tiande, Yunnei and other states outside the Great Wall were Xia soil.

The most important thing is that the central army retreated from Hengshan and handed over Hengshan to Daxia. Both sides used Hengshan-Tiandushan as their national borders. In fact, the central army did not have any army in Hengshan, only the Zhe family in the Prefecture and Prefecture still guarded several important places. In addition, the Western Song army also occupied some Hengshan areas.

In addition, due to political and economic needs, the two sides set up courts and carried out trade, and opened up the Silk Road, which had been cut off by Xixia for more than a hundred years, and trade between China and the West has been fully launched.

It can be said that this is one of the rare great victory for the diplomatic envoys of the Western Xia.

Before this, Xixia had never been recognized so highly and had such a high nominal status.

Not to mention, the Hengshan, the most important thing for Xixia, was given to Xixia.

It is precisely because of this that Xixia was very active in this alliance. She gave Li Qinglu, Liang Xianxian and Liang Shishi a large number of dowries - 10,000 cattle and horses. In addition, there were also a large number of Xixia specialties, such as 100,000 sheets of beach sheepskin, 100,000 pieces of Xixia porcelain, 100,000 kilograms of top-quality Helan stones, etc.... In short, it was full of sincerity.

In addition to these, Xixia also sent 30,000 elite troops to attack Tiande, Yunnei and other places currently occupied by the Jin army.

Of course, this is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

The reason why Xixia turned to Dazhong was not only stronger and more fierce, but also because the Jin people breached the contract and robbed Tiande, Yunnei and other places that had been promised to Xixia, and then threw it to Xixia for a four-war place, that is, northern Shaanxi, and wanted to bring Xixia into the battle situation and stir up the water even more. This made the two sides form a great hatred, which was also one of the reasons that prompted Xixia to form an alliance with Dazhong.

Unexpectedly, Li Yan didn't care about the gains and losses in name at all. He directly recognized Xixia as a country and was willing to give real things (the most favored by the people of Xixia), and then formed an alliance with Xixia.

I won’t say much about the benefits obtained by the Sino-Xia alliance. For example, if Xixia has been preserved, she has a powerful ally, has gained the identity of a great power, can trade with Dazhong, can develop safely for a few years, etc. There are so many benefits.

As for Dazhong, forming an alliance with Xixia is actually very important.

First of all, Dazhong temporarily stabilizes his west side and can draw some of the troops in the west.

Secondly, Dazhong received support from the Xia army, which increased a lot in terms of strength and deterrence.

In addition, when Dazhong and the Southern Song Dynasty had previously negotiated peace, the south was temporarily stabilized, and some troops in the south could be drawn out.

Now, Dazhong can finally let go of the battle with Dajin and confirm Yan Yun's belonging.

Li Yan quickly ordered that 50,000 troops be transferred from the southern and western fronts to reinforce the Northern fronts, and all the existing 100,000 reserves in Dazhong were transferred to the northern fronts to supplement the war damage of the Eastern and Western fronts.

In addition, Li Yan ordered the Ministry of War to recruit another 200,000 reserve troops to prepare for a protracted war.

From the formation set up by Li Yan, anyone can see that Li Yan is bound to win against Yan Yun!

At this moment, the envoy of the Jin Kingdom came to Bianliang City in Tokyo...
Chapter completed!