Wu is so old that he will die.

Although he lived for more than others, he was a mortal fetus after all, and could not defeat time or escape death.

Standing in front of a globe more than one person tall, Wu Haogu looked quietly with reading glasses, not sure how long he had been looking. A satisfied smile appeared on a face full of wrinkles and old-fashioned spots.

This year has been the Republic for forty years, which is converted into the Western calendar year 1154, and Wu Haogu is already 78 years old.

In the Middle Ages, seventy was already seventy years old, and it was rare since ancient times. Eighty years old, which almost meant being old and confused. However, although Wu Haogu was old, he was not confused, so when he turned 70 years ago, he no longer served as a senator. Before he officially retired, he passed a bill that stipulated that the age limit for the senator was 70 years old. If he was over 70 years old, he should retire instead of being a senator.

Two years before he withdrew from the Senate, that is, when he was 68 years old, he handed over the management rights of all the accounts controlled by the Wu family, including the Republican Bank and Tianjin Bank, to Wu Yijiu, who had retired from the position of head of state.

Wu Yijiu's head of state was not regarded as a lifelong man. After 22 years of reign, he also chose to step down before people were completely bored. Of course, this was also abdicated by Wu Haogu's repeated persuasion.

The successor to the head of state was not Wu Yiyong or Wu Yixin, but Zhang Zhifeng, who was more than teenagers older than Wu Yi!

Zhang Zhifeng was one of Wu Yijiu's closest assistants during his tenure as head of the head of state, and was also the father-in-law of Wu Yijiu's son Wu Deok-aki. Before taking office as head of the head of state, he was also the boss of Wu Haogula for 10 years. It can be said that he has faded out of politics, and his disciples and old officials have long been scattered.

In addition, Zhang Zhifeng has a weak influence in the army. The Zhang family is from Changzhou, and has been a scholar who has passed down from generation to generation, and has no family tradition of joining the army. Even in Xinzhou, there is no change. Except for Zhang Zhifeng himself who has been in the army (not a professional officer), no one of the children of the Zhang family has ever been an officer (some have joined the army). They basically graduated from Yuntai Academy and Yanjing University. They either went to business or entered the officialdom.

Therefore, Zhang Zhifeng was elected as the head of state with the support of the Wu family, which can basically be regarded as a transitional figure between Wu Yijiu and Wu Deok-aki.

The reason why such a transition was not only that Wu Dezhao was still young and only in his twenties was that Wu Haogu hoped to break the "hereditary" practice of the head of state.

The head of state was elected by the Senate, not a position passed down by the father and son of the Wu family.

Therefore, it is very meaningful to have a head of state who does not have the surname Wu after the Wu family's father and son monopolized the position of head of state for 30 years.

This is not to weaken the power of the Wu family, but to pave a way out for the descendants of the Wu family.

Since the position of the head of state is not hereditary, once the Wu family does not continue to monopolize the power of this position, there is no need to defend it with their lives.

In Wu Haogu's later years, how to let his descendants survive the various storms in the future became his most concerned issue.

In addition to persuading Wuyiku to arrange a "transitional head of state", Wu Haogu also sprinkled his descendants overseas as if sowing seeds. Among them, Wu Yiyong was arranged to serve as the governor of Japan's province for a long time, and Wu Yiyong's sons were also settled in Sagami and Musashi Prefecture, the Japanese provinces. They also took the daughter of powerful men of local Japanese descent as their concubines.

By the way, Japan no longer exists now! Instead, it has completely become a Japanese province!

The original royal family of Japan, Fujiwara, Hei clan, and Genji descendants were all moved to the north and south Zhili of the Great Zhou Kingdom. They also changed their surnames to the Han.

The nobles, warriors and powerful men who remained in Japan all changed to the Han surname and were loyal to the Great Zhou Republic. Ordinary Japanese civilians also became Han people in this movement to change their surnames Yi. At least on the surface, they were Han people!

The process of Chineseization will undoubtedly continue, because Japanese provinces are really important to the current Great Zhou Republic. The Great Zhou is now the "imperial of two continents", with the old continent to the west, the new continent to the east, and Japan is between the two continents.

It is no exaggeration to say that the world empire of the Great Zhou was centered on Japanese provinces!

This is not a charming day, it is reality!

In the sailing era, it would be impossible for China to occupy the New World without Japan. Starting from northeast Japan, sailing boats can reach Liangshan Town in Yinzhou by walking 4,000 miles. If you start from Jingdong City, Haizhou, the distance will be extended to 9,000 miles!

Moreover, the Kanto Plain in Japan, which produces rice a lot, can also exist as a rear supply base for the New World.

Although the New World is rich, it also has a development process. Not to mention anything else, just talk about the area around Wujia Bay (Vancouver and Seattle in later generations), there is indeed rich and fertile land. However, it is all covered with dense forests!

It is impossible to turn dense forests into abundant fertile farmland in just a few years to cut down trees, build water conservancy, and open up arable land.

In this process, the colonies of the Great Zhou Dynasty on the New World must purchase grain from Japanese provinces. If there is no Japan base, the grain transport ship must travel 5,000 more miles on the sea. The transportation efficiency will be reduced by more than 40%! If livestock is transported, the transportation efficiency will be reduced even more.

Therefore, without Japanese provinces, the cost of colonizing America in the Sailing Age of the Great Zhou would increase several times, and the efficiency would be greatly reduced, making it impossible to conquer America any economic possibility.

Therefore, thoroughly mastering Japan and permanently turning it into a part of the Great Zhou Republic became a prerequisite for conquering the New World and also the national policy of the Great Zhou!

Wu Yiyong became the executor of this national policy and devoted his life to the cause of liberation of the Japanese people...

Wu Haogu stretched out his palm covered with old man spots, gently pushed the globe, and turned the eastern hemisphere (the western hemisphere of another time and space) into front of him.

The vast North and South America have been painted, but they are still not very accurate, they can only take a look.

The voyage around the Americas has been put on the agenda and will be realized in the next few years.

The person who proposed this plan was Wu Yixin, the Governor of the Great Zhou Republic, and the future father of the United States of North America!

However, there is no United States of North America yet. There is only one North American Governor's District, four overseas provinces (Snow Township, Shanxi Province, Haidong Province, and Xinxiang Province), thirteen autonomous regions, fifteen autonomous commercial cities and seventy-seven military strongholds.

The easternmost stronghold has been placed on the east coast of the North American continent... It is located in the location of New York in later generations, now called Xinyue Town, a desolate place with no permanent residents and only a small number of Marines.

According to the latest statistics, the total number of citizens and civilians living in the Great Zhou Dynasty in North America has exceeded 1.5 million, and it can grow by about 100,000 every year!

While the number of Zhou people in North America continued to rise, the local Yin people were decreasing. According to the report of the North American Governor's Office, in the past decade, the Yin tribes in the Governor's area have experienced a major epidemic every year, and 80% of them died once they died, which is very terrible!

Moreover, the good doctors who rushed from the Zhou Kingdom were helpless!

The jurisdiction of the North American Governor ends in the tropical rainforest area south of Mexico in later generations. In the south of this rainforest, it is the territory of the South American Governor.

Because the distance is too far, the ocean currents and the wind direction at sea are not very favorable, so the development level of the South American Governor's District is far inferior to that of the North American Governor's District.

The Zhou people (citizens and civilians) in the entire Governor's district were less than 100,000, mainly concentrated in Yinshan Province, which was a silver-rich area centered on Yinshan City and New Yinshan City.

As for other parts of South America, they implemented banish rule and enfeoffed a large number of "Yin Family Princes and Dukes". The so-called "Yin Family" is actually a title, probably the meaning of the king and the emperor. I don't know if it has anything to do with the Yin and Shang dynasties?

However, the Great Zhou Republic did not care about this and directly used the title of "Yin Family" as evidence "Since ancient times", and also named a large number of princes and princes of the Yin Family, which were said to be descendants of King Zhou and Su Daji...

Wu Haogu's ears were now reminded of footsteps, and he turned his gaze to the door of his big study. Those who came in were Ji'ano, who was over 50 years old. Pan Qiaolian and Ximen Qing had passed away one after another a few years ago! The woman who serves Wu Haogu now is Ji'ano, the youngest daughter of Yelu Yanxi.

"Official," Okuno quickly walked to Wu Haogu's side, gave a blessing, and whispered, "Just just got the news that the Supreme Emperor of the Western Song Dynasty is seriously ill and is almost out of reach!"

"What?" Wu Haogu turned around and showed a sad and sad expression on his face. "Why can't it work? He is younger than me!"

Zhao Ji is a good match for martial arts. Gu is four years younger than that of Gu, and he is 74 years old this year. He has lived 19 years more than in history, and now he is finally coming to an end.

In the glorious and magnificent Qionglin Palace in Chengdu, the Supreme Emperor of Song Dynasty, who had been indecent all his life, was lying on the bedside, and the smell of Chinese medicine was everywhere in the bedroom.

Zhao Ji had just drunk a cup of ginseng soup that was surprisingly bitter (a life-threatening one), and now he felt a little more energetic. He opened his eyes and just looked at the roof steadily, looking back at the life he had walked through in his mind.

When he was about to meet his ancestors, Zhao Ji should indeed think about it carefully. How should he report when he met Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi?

Is the Song Dynasty corrupted in his hands?

Well, it seems to be broken! I’m a little sorry for my ancestors… Kaifeng Mansion was lost, and the good Song Dynasty was broken into two.

Hey, it’s not right! It’s true that Kaifeng Prefecture was lost, and a lot of territory in the Central Plains were lost, and the Song Dynasty was divided.

But... I got a lot! The land owned by the two Song dynasties is ten times larger than when the Song dynasties was unified in the past!
Chapter completed!