It was because he realized that he could make money that Xiao Ruxun decided to launch a subversive action against Siam.
Siam and a few other countries had the ability to make their own firearms. Xiao Ruxun did this to prevent them from having this ability, so they had to buy from Daqin.
Siam was the first target. There were a few other countries that could produce firearms on their own. Although the quality and output were not high, they could produce firearms on their own. Xiao Ruxun wanted to get rid of them. It was only interesting to monopolize them.
The good days of these countries were coming to an end. Daqin was not a Daming. Daqin needed far more than a Daming.
Taking care of Japan was the first step to frighten the vassal countries. Xiao Ruxun announced to the outside that the Emperor of Japan refused to accept the title of King and still called himself Emperor internally. He was very dissatisfied, so he wanted to conquer Japan and destroy it. This was the greatest deterrence by force.
Letting those countries participate was not because he wanted to rely on their military force, but to let their armies and people see the unparalleled fighting power of Daqin and the death of Japan. He wanted them to know what would happen if they went against Daqin.
Showing off military force and diplomatic ability at the same time, there should be a lot more obedient godson.
Daqin could also accumulate relatively rich foreign experience. Later, after opening new routes and participating in the world's big waves, they could also do a lot of things. It was more convenient for the Daqin government to accumulate rich foreign negotiation management experience.
In addition, the existence of Japan was also very important. After destroying the government, Japan would be a pure colony. As for how to manage a colony, the officials of Daqin still had little experience.
Xiao Ruxun planned to keep a piece of land directly under the jurisdiction of the central government around Kyoto in Japan, responsible for the overall management of the surrounding land given to the meritorious officials, so that the officials of Daqin could accumulate enough colonial management experience and lay a foundation for the future.
Compared to the Ying people, Xiao Ruxun thought that Daqin was more qualified to be an empire, whether it was the size of the country, the population, or the experience of management.
Therefore, everything now was planning for the future. Right now, there were a lot of things to do, but after a few years, everything would become management. With rules and regulations, everything would become a little easier. At least, they wouldn't have to do everything themselves like now.
Xiao Ruxun basically ate and lived with his ministers. The relationship between a monarch and his ministers had not been this close for more than a hundred years.
If he didn't do this, he really couldn't. The distance was close, and anything could be discussed with a shout. Therefore, Xiao Ruxun thought of the administrative service center system later on. He planned to set up a contact point for the officials of the various administrative departments in the Palace of Heavenly Purity. Each department would send people to be stationed there, so that it would be convenient for them to directly report to the Emperor.
The Cabinet officials had not returned to the Cabinet Office for a long time. They ate, lived, and worked in the Palace of Heavenly Purity. They had a meal in the Imperial Kitchen with the Emperor and had a good meal. Many officials had gained weight. Except for the fact that they often could not go home for the night, everything else was quite good.
In order to make it convenient for the officials to go home, Xiao Ruxun also arranged for carriages to pick up and drop off the officials. However, most of the time, because of the urgency of the war, they couldn't be used. Instead, they were used to pick up the children and wives of the officials to reunite in the palace and relieve the pain of longing.
But every official knew that there was a possibility of promotion if there was something to do, and there was a possibility of further advancement if there was something to do. If they did a good job, the Emperor would not be stingy with rewards and official positions.
Now, there was no rule that only Hanlin could enter the Cabinet. Basically, as long as the officials did a good job and had good political achievements, anyone could have the opportunity to enter the Cabinet to work.
Therefore, how could they not take more energy to do things seriously?
Some young officials who had not married directly used the Palace of Heavenly Purity as their residence. The longest record was a young official of the Ministry of Finance who did not go home for 27 consecutive days.
Generally speaking, Xiao Ruxun gave the officials who did not go home the preferential treatment of taking a bath. He specially built a large bathhouse for them to take a bath. But this guy took advantage of the cold weather and did not take a bath for seven days. His body smelled, and he was despised by his colleagues, so he had to go home to take a bath and change clothes.
There were too many things to do, and there was a shortage of manpower. Although the central government of Daqin had expanded unprecedentedly, there were still not enough people.
It was already very tiring to manage the domestic affairs, not to mention that Xiao Ruxun still had to fight wars and manage affairs abroad. He was fighting with Japan in the northeast, and he had to cooperate with the Vertical and Horizontal Alliance to deal with the Siamese Empire in the south. The matter of the chieftain in the southwest was still going on, and it was not finished yet. It was really more intense than ever.
But it was really fulfilling. Often, as soon as he woke up in the morning, he would go to work, and then in the blink of an eye, it would be lunchtime. After an hour of lunch break, in the blink of an eye, the sky would be dark, and it would be time for dinner.
There were very few officials who could get off work on time at night and go home for dinner. Either they had nothing to do, or they were too powerful and worked too fast, or they missed their families too much. Generally, most of the officials would eat in the imperial kitchen and then continue to work.
It was not until the Emperor was ready to rest and the eunuchs came in to turn off the lights that they would find their simple beds and fall asleep. The next day, they would come again, and the cycle would repeat.
Sometimes, if Xiao Ruxun wanted to work at night, they would also follow, and only go to rest when they really couldn't take it anymore.
Because of this, Xiao Ruxun also stated many times that when things were done, they would go to sleep or go home to see their families. There were endless things to do, so they had to pay attention to rest and ensure their health.
However, it was clear that they were fascinated by the honor of working with the Emperor. Xiao Ruxun could only provide them with sufficient nutrition in terms of food, such as milk, fruits, meat, and so on.
Anyway, it was better than what they ate at home.
In such a palace, government and military orders were issued one after another, remotely guiding the development of the world's general trend.
The war in Japan, the diplomatic action of Siamese, the land reform in the southwest, the locust control in the north, the education reform in the southeast, and the construction plan of the Grand Road that ran through the country.
Every matter was important, and there was no room for negligence.
Under the coordination of the central government, the Daqin was united like never before, concentrating on operating the administrative machine and the war machine at high speed.
Under such high-speed operation, the mobilization ability of the Daqin was fully demonstrated, which was the mobilization ability of any country in the world could not be compared to.
In comparison, the mobilization ability of the Toyotomi clan and the Tokugawa clan was trash.
When the Daqin army had arrived at the Korean sea, the intelligence agents of the Tokugawa clan discovered it, but they were not sure what they were going to do, so they first reported to the Tokugawa Ieyasu to let him know.
When the huge navy fleet finished resupplying in Korea and set sail in the direction of Japan, the agents panicked and confirmed that the target of the Daqin navy fleet was Japan.
But it was too late. When they confirmed that the target of the fleet was Japan, it was too late.
On the seventh day of the fourth month of the second year of Yongmu, the vanguard of the Left Army under Chai Guozhu landed on the Gojima Archipelago in Songpu Prefecture. With the help of the secret agents on the island, they quickly began to attack and sweep the military facilities and troops belonging to the Tokugawa clan on the island.
On the eighth day of the fourth month, more troops landed, and the small garrison of the Tokugawa army was quickly wiped out.
On the ninth day of the fourth month, Chai Guozhu landed and began to set up the enemy command center in the Gojima Archipelago, set up supply points, left troops to garrison, and began to lead the army to attack Kyushu Island.
On the same day, the main force led by Ma Wei began to land on Tsushima Island.
On the eleventh day, Chai Guozhu's troops landed on Kyushu Island and began to attack.
On the same day, Li Rusong's troops arrived at Yinqi Island. After resupplying, they set sail again and prepared to attack.
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