While the land was nationalized and the imperial examination system was reformed, Yang Feng also began to carry out drastic reforms to the official system and military system of the Song Dynasty.

First, the cabinet system was established.

Only one prime minister was left, the left and right ministers, the assistant ministers and other officials were all abolished. The ministers of each department were members of the cabinet, but the number of departments increased significantly. At the same time, the functions of each department were originally re-established. For example, the Ministry of Justice became the Ministry of Justice, and the Dali Temple was the Supreme Court. The Ministry of Justice no longer had the power to manage trial, and even the power to arrest people was subscribed to the newly established police department. In short, it completely transferred the Song Dynasty court to modernization, and all the inexplicable official positions were all gone, especially the three ministers and other officials who had long become wages but did not do anything were completely abolished. In the future, the Song Dynasty court no longer had those false positions that would not be used except carved on the monument.

The Privy Council is still retained.

However, the Privy Council has actually become a special military institution, equivalent to the Supreme Command, with various departments such as the General Staff. The heads of each department serve directly as Privy Councilors. The Privy Councilors are appointed by the Queen from the generals of the army and included in the cabinet.

The Du Branch was changed to the Ministry of Finance, and the local generals and transshipment envoys were transferred to the Ministry of Finance.

Salt and iron allow the revocation.

The iron industry is no longer specialized, and the salt industry's salt industry's state-owned salt companies are not only the salt industry, but also a large number of monopoly enterprises, such as grain companies. These state-owned monopoly enterprises belong to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission directly under the Empress. Speaking of which, the Empress's directed not only has the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, but also has it! However, these two institutions were still very inconspicuous at this time, at most, equivalent to the Empress's internal minister nature. Well, in fact, the officials of these two institutions are indeed eunuchs. They are only responsible for managing those state-owned enterprises, and in addition to planning the development of these state-owned enterprises through a planned economic model. To be precise, they are the stewards of the Empress.

But how the private economy develops has nothing to do with these two institutions, they are only responsible for managing state-owned enterprises.

In short, Yang Feng's reform of the Song Dynasty actually...

In fact, it is a freak, a mixture of constitutional monarchy and feudal specialty, a mixture of planned economy and free economy, the vigorous development of capitalism and socialism coexist, but it coexisted in a feudal empire. Here, the compulsory education elementary school learns astronomy and geography, then the study where poetry and books are passed down from family to family, and here, the four books and five classics are read in front of the county government office, here, the elderly in public nursing homes walk by with crutches, everything coexist so strangely.

However, Yang Feng did not make much reform in the military. After all, the Song army had poor combat effectiveness because civil servants commanded the army, but in terms of things, it was not bad.

The Privy Council was renovated, and the system envoys in various places also became military positions in the Privy Council system, and the Xuanfu envoys had no right to interfere in the army. Those useless military governors in various places were abolished, and the military organization was clearly defined, and the command of the army was commanded by the commander of the war zone, and the Privy Council was the supreme commander. After such a system was established, it was basically almost the same. With a reasonable command system and perfect logistics and preferential treatment measures, it was important that there were cavalry to a certain extent, and then the heavy infantry armor of the Song army gradually became plate-armed, which was enough to crush the enemy with absolute population and economy advantages. There was no need to use muskets and cannons, heavy infantry with divine arm bows and battle axes and oars were enough to deal with this era, especially the bonus of primary firearms such as black gunpowder grenades, fireball arrows, and even three-eyed guns was even more powerful.

Cannons are really unnecessary.

The main reason is that Yang Feng offended too many people over the years and was afraid that someone would secretly give him a shot one day.

What's more, it takes copper to build cannons, and copper is still very precious to him. The entire Song Dynasty lacked this kind of currency in circulation. It was too extravagant to use it to build cannons before there was excess copper. As for the combing gun, it was not very meaningful. Yang Feng planned to evolve directly into the flintlock gun in a few years.

In short, the Song Dynasty entered an era of peaceful development.

The peace between the Song and Yuan dynasties lasted for a full twenty years.

During this period, Kublai Khan continued to expand westward.

He formed an alliance with Hulagu. As his vassal state, his heir Abaha accepted the title of Kublai Khan after Hulagu's death and cooperated to defeat Beergo, who tried to get involved in the Chaha Tai Khanate. The latter was the younger brother of Badu. The Shuchi and Tolei Khanate launched a war on the control of the Chaha Tai Khanate for many years. The Haidu of the Ogedei Khanate supported the Shuchi Khanate, including Alibug who was defeated by Kublai Khan, but the final result was the Shuchi Khanate failure. The Jin Horde temporarily withdrew from the struggle for the Chaha Tai Khanate. Haidu exchanged for recognition of Kublai Khan's status and became a vassal of Kublai Khan like Bala of the Chaha Tai Khanate. Alibug died of illness, and the Mengge Timur of the Jin Horde also symbolically recognized Kublai Khan's status.

The civil war between Mongolian tribes ended like this.

And Kublai Khan finally obtained the identity of the common ruler of various Mongolian tribes.

Although it is only symbolic.

After the end of the civil war, the coalition forces formed by the Yuan, Il Khanate, Chahatai Khanate and Ogedei Khanate immediately rushed south from Afghanistan to attack the Delhi Sultanate. The Delhi Sultanate, which had defeated the Mongolian army once before, did not block the Mongolian cavalry this time. After all, they had only defeated a partial division before, and this time they were elite troops from various Mongolian troops.

The 100,000 coalition forces led by the Khan Bala of the Chahatai Khan swept across the Indus River Basin.

The Delhi Sultanate fought decisively with the Mongolian army in Punjab, but was blown up by the Yuan army with gunpowder. The 200,000 troops of the Delhi Sultanate collapsed. The Mongolian coalition forces chased and captured Delhi, and then washed the city bloodily. Although the distance was uncontrollable, and the troops mobilized by the Delhi Sultanate arrived one after another, the Bala army still had to withdraw back to the river. The countless treasures looted in the city of Delhi still caused the Mongolian tribes, which had not had such good things for a long time, to fall into excitement. The legendary prosperity of India has been confirmed. For a long time after that, the coalition forces of the Ir Khanate, the Chaha-Tai Khanate and the Ogedei Khanate continued to move south through the strategic channel of Afghanistan, and the blood of the Ganges continued to flow. The Chaha-Tai Khanate completely controlled the upper reaches of the Indus River, that is, the Peshawar area.

The Mongol invasion made the Delhi Sultanate and the Song Dynasty natural allies.

The new merchant ships that were constantly launched also made a stable and reliable connection between the two countries. For the promise of the Queen of the Song Dynasty, once they had enough cavalry, they would attack from the east to alleviate the pressure faced by the Sultanate of Delhi. The latter gave the green light to the merchants of the Song Dynasty to purchase Mawari horses in their own territory. Such excellent war horses that were not inferior to Arab horses continued to reach the military horse farms in Hebei and Sichuan. In addition, Yang Feng had obtained Arab horses and even European horses from Hebei before, the Song army finally completely got rid of the embarrassing situation of lacking war horses, and they also had high-end war horses far superior to the Mongols.

Not only Mawari horses, Yang Feng is also purchasing Arab horses. He even specially built special merchant ships for transporting horses.

And of course Mawarima was bought from Egypt.

His painting cake that East and West cooperated to beat Mongolia not only attracted the Delhi Sultanate, but also Mamulik was attracted because of the temptation of Egypt's Golden Kingdom and the Southern Dreamy Grassland. Khan Abaha, supported by Kublai Khan, resumed his attack on the Fertile Crescent Land. Although Mamulik could still withstand it, it was also very difficult. They had only defeated Mongolian 10,000 teams. If Mengge had not died and Hulagu withdrawn, Mamulik would have lost if both sides continued to fight. The strength of both sides was not the same level. Mamulik was an elite cavalry, and their number could not have stopped the continuous Mongolian iron cavalry.

In this way, they also hope to see the Mongols attack from the east, and they also gave the green light to the merchants of the Song Dynasty to purchase high-quality Arab horses.

But there is one thing they don't know.

While these merchants of the Song Dynasty came from the sea to trade with them, several merchants of special identities also landed in East Africa and bribed the local chiefs with a lot of money. Then they went west to the inland Africa, reaching the legendary fantasy grassland...

It was rainy season when they went.

The East African prairie spread in front of them in a shocking way, and then through the brush of one of the painters, it turned into a spectacular painting. After tens of thousands of miles of twists and turns, it was displayed in front of Kublai Khan of the capital. The result of this painting was Kublai Khan's western tour and convened various meetings on the banks of the Sir River. At this conference, Kublai Khan used the excuse of conspiring to assassinate him, and killed the Haidu, Haidu, who had always had a bad relationship with him and annexed his territory. In addition, he used troops to force the Chagatai Khanate to offer him a large area of ​​land, and then began to build his Xidu in the upper reaches of the Chu River, and gave up the occupation of Dali. The Mongolian army in Dali retreated to the north and turned west. In addition, a large number of people were migrated from Guanzhong, Shanxi and Liaodong to the Western Regions...

He is planning a way out.

After all, he knew very well that the peace between him and Yang Feng was not indefinitely, and the latter would eventually take action against him. He could not stop Yang Feng until he could find a way to deal with Yang Feng.

Since you can't stop it, just hide away a little further.

If he wanted to stay away, he had to go west and clarify his identity as a full Mongolian Khan. After all, the only thing that could be conquered by him was the West. Whether it was the legendary rich Europe or the fantasy grassland south, he had to continue to attack west. Fortunately, except Mamulik, he had no enemy to fight against him at all. Mamulik could not resist hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops, and the western expedition would definitely be successful. But before this, the Khanate and his cousins ​​and nephews must be truly accepted by him. The most effective way is to establish a capital city in the West and migrate his most loyal subjects to the West.

The establishment of this Xidu represents a complete change in the strategic direction of the Yuan Empire.
Chapter completed!