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As Yanyun's Sixteen Prefectures were taken into his possession by Ye Qing, Wanyan Jing now knows that Ye Qing has great ambitions, and even Temujin gradually feels a little crisis. Even Ye Qing himself, after occupying Yanyun's Sixteen Prefectures, had a passion of "willing to be the top of the mountain and looking down on all the mountains".

The Lin'an court also didn't know whether Ye Qing's ambition was at the end. Since the beginning of the Northern Expedition, waves of surprises have made the court dumbfounded. People can't help but ask themselves: What will Ye Qing do next? Can the Song court still tolerate the king of Yan Ye Qing?

Ye Qing was obviously more confident than before. Throughout these years, he could unswervingly achieve his goals according to his own ideas, ignoring the ridicule and contemptuous eyes of others, and the many small actions of the court behind him.

Now, he naturally doesn't care how the people in the world will define him. Everything he wants has just begun at this moment.

Even in geographical location, Yanjing was still very different from later Beijing. It was not until the Yuan people later took over Yanjing that Yanjing gradually had the outline of later Beijing.

Yejing today is obviously not comparable to the so-called Yuan Dadu, and even more so than the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Now the large flat open space north of Yanjing has naturally become a place that Ye Qing coveted. Yanjing is still too small after all. Under the rule of the Jin people, it seems that they don’t care about the size of the city, and even the construction of the city is more like a routine.

When Ye Qing returned to Yanjing, the first thing he thought of was to rebuild Yanjing. He admired the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but also respected the capitals of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Of course, more importantly, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun led by Yanjing really needed a powerful city to support the defense line of the entire Sixteen Prefectures.

Just like Taiyuan's role in Yanmen and other fortresses, just like Chang'an's importance to the Hetao Third Route, it is also like Xiping Prefecture and Xingqing Prefecture to the Anxi Protectorate. It requires a powerful city to turn this area into a real important town.

Give up the administration of Jinan Prefecture, which means that the Andong Protectorate began to move northward, and Yanjing naturally became the first choice.

As Xin Qiji and others were sent to Huainan Road by Ye Qing, the important task of the Andong Protectorate of Yanjing Prefecture naturally fell on Ye Qing's shoulders.

I wanted to put my ideas on Yelu Yue, but Yelu Yue was not interested at all, which forced Ye Qing to hold back what he said.

Yelu Yue was not interested in Ye Qing's inspection of the large open spaces in the north of the city since she returned to Yanjing, but she seemed extremely gossiped about what happened between Ye Qing in Dading Prefecture and Wanyan Jing.

A square area was initially demarcated by Ye Qing. When Yelu Yue returned to the mansion where King Wei Shao was lived in the city, and transformed it into the mansion of King Yan, Yelu Yue had been waiting for him again, waiting to hear him say that when he left the content of the letter to Wanyan Jing.

Looking at the majestic mansion, the majestic and domineering King Yan, Ye Qing shook his head silently and sighed. He didn't know that Wanyan Yongji, who had already died in battle, knew that he had taken his mansion for himself in Jinan Mansion. Now that he has arrived in Yanjing, he has taken his mansion for himself, sometimes, will he crawl out of the coffin and settle the score with him?

In just two months of transformation, the mansion, which was originally full of golden aura, has become a mansion full of Jiangnan style. It can be regarded as one of the best mansions in the entire Yanjing City. It is like a garden, and there are a stream of demeanor and extraordinaryness that only a prince should have.

"Then is Wanning Palace. When are you planning to leave there empty?" In the hall, after the maid brought tea and left, Yelu Yue couldn't wait to ask.

Ye Qing's current mansion is close to the Jin Dynasty Palace Paradise. It is precisely because of this that Ye Qing's mansion can get the moon first. After clearing the lake water of the Wanning Palace Paradise, Ye Qing's back garden also has mountains and water, towers, pavilions and winding paths.

"The court must have known that there is a Wanning Palace in Yanjing, so the court naturally has to be empty before it is ordered. However..." Ye Qing, who returned to Yanjing, looked at the great beauty Yelu in front of him, thought for a while: "But no matter whether the court has any objections or not, Wanning Palace may eventually become the office of the Andong Protectorate."

"Yard office? Such a big yamen office? How many elite soldiers do you want to raise in the city?" Yelu Yue widened her eyes, a little incredible. The huge Wanning Palace was wasted by him so much? It was simply a waste of resources!

Ye Qing looked at Yelu Yue with a hint of disdain on his lips, and curled his lips and said, "What do you, a woman, know?"

"You..." Yelu Yue stared at Ye Qing, suddenly smiled again, and said relaxedly: "I am a woman? Yes, I am a woman. Don't think that you are so agitating me, I will take it over in Anton's Protectorate."

Seeing Yelu Yue see through his provocation, Ye Qing sighed slightly and then said, "Yanjing should not be so small, so Wanning Palace will sooner or later become a useless person. It will be considered as the office of the Andong Protectorate Office."

"You won't really want to build a brand new Yanjing city, right?" Yelu Yue's eyes widened again. Since returning to Yanjing, Ye Qing would go to the large open space north of Yanjing City almost every day to inspect, saying that he wanted to build a new Yanjing city.

At first, Yelu Yue did not take it seriously, and even felt that the reason why the current King of Yan was like this was because he became a little arrogant after being named king by the court.

But when Ye Qing realized the difficulty of rebuilding a city, he would give up this whimsical idea, but he didn't expect that. Looking at the current appearance of Yan King Ye Qing, he seemed very determined and did not intend to retreat.

"Why can't?" Ye Qing asked back

, and then said: "What is the richest in the Song court? Naturally, it is the richest in money, so building a new city is not difficult."

"Will Lin'an agree?" Yelu Yue asked disbelief.

"Of course I won't agree so easily." Ye Qing sighed and frowned slightly, "If you want to convince the current emperor... I'm afraid I need to go back to Lin'an, and..." Ye Qing looked at Ye Lu Yue who was waiting for the following text, thought for a while and said, "It's not just a simple construction of a new city, but a new capital for Song Ting."

"What should I do with Kaifeng?" Yelu Yue asked without hesitation.

"Kaifeng? When did Kaifeng City move soil?" Ye Qing looked at Yelu Yue with a faint smile on his lips and asked.

Kaifeng is just a temporary solution. Now after taking over the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, is Kaifeng still that important?

Naturally, it is no longer important. Kaifeng is now in the hearts of the people of the world, including the court, at most it is a city with a different meaning from other cities. As the territory expanded to a territory that had exceeded the time when the Song court was founded, the status of Kaifeng Prefecture naturally became dispensable, and its symbolic meaning was more important than the actual meaning.

As the saying goes, one is rising and the other is declining. Now that the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which Song Ting has been obsessed with, is now being taken into account by Ye Qing, the status of Yanjing must be much higher than that of other prefectures. This is why Li Fengniang was able to bargain with Ye Qing firmly at the beginning.

It is precisely because Li Fengniang knew the importance of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Song court, and even the importance of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun itself that she used Ye Qing to control the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to bargain with Ye Qing for other roads in the northern region and return to the court.

If Ye Qing wanted to make Yanjing the capital, it would be difficult to judge the attitude of the court. After all, the matter of accompanying the capital was quite a bit serious. In addition, because Ye Qing's control, the court could not even intervene. So if he placed the capital, would Ye Qing's unjust heart be even stronger? This is something that the court had to worry about.

So if Ye Qing wants to make Yanjing the capital, he must go back to Lin'an. Whether this trip will make the court clear the doubts, or whether he will take the prestige of the King of Yan and test the pressure on the court, but in general, Ye Qing still needs to rely on the financial resources of the Lin'an court to build a real world city.

"No wonder you summoned Liu Keshi to Yanjing. It turns out that you didn't plan to stay in Yanjing for more?" Yelu Yue's eyes were cold, and even a faint sense of threat.

I just returned to Yanjing, and it seems that I am going to leave. What is he who is in Yanjing? Is he Ye Qing's passerby?

How could Ye Qing not know Yelu Yue’s thoughts? Since returning to Yanjing, he has been with Yelu Yue in his mansion, and even enjoying the afternoon sunshine and starting to look forward to the family living a reunion life.

Looking at Yelu Yue's gradually cold eyes towards him, Ye Qing reached out to hold Yelu Yue's hand, shook his head and smiled, "It's still early. Even if I want to go to Lin'an, I'm afraid it will have to pass the New Year. At that time, Qingcheng, Zhongqing, Bai Chun and the others may have already moved into this mansion."

"But now... Bai Chun seems to have not set off yet. Zhong Qing and the others are said to be in Jinan Prefecture and will come north to Yanjing together." Yelu Yue said, holding Ye Qing's hand.

Ye Qing sighed with satisfaction, felt deeply satisfied, and said, "No matter what, from now on, we will no longer have to separate from all over the place."

"All of them come here?" Yelu Yue looked at Ye Qing and asked.

Ye Qing nodded firmly and said, "Yes, all five children will come here."

Not only did Ye Qing get tired of living in different places, but Bai Chun, Yan Qingcheng and Zhong Qing were also tired of living in the separation of several places and could not be reunited. However, now the northern region is in a state of peace, and Ye Qing also started to prepare to buy a complete home in Yanjing at the first time.

Just when the two of them were silent and the atmosphere in the hall was quite warm, Jia She appeared at the door for the first time. Yelu Yue quickly pulled her hand back and sat upright quickly, while Ye Qing didn't care. He looked at Jia She and said, "What's wrong?"

"Mr. Liu is waiting for you in the front hall. The Three Thousand Battalions have been withdrawn from Wuzhou. For seven consecutive days, the Mongolian army did not attack Wuzhou and other prefectures again." Jia She stood at the door and said to Ye Qing.

Ye Qing smiled knowingly. All this was almost expected. When he returned to Yanjing from Dading Prefecture and was killed in battle when Yelu Liuge from Shangjing Road and the Jin people quelled the rebellion on Shangjing Road, Temujin must have felt like he was attacked by Song and Jin. At this time, if he still attacked Wuzhou all the time, then he would naturally have to worry about the battle between Beijing Road and Xijing Road.

So after Ye Qing returned to Yanjing, he did nothing even, which was a considerable pressure for Temujin.

In this case, he was even sure that before the New Year and Day this year, the Jin Kingdom would likely completely quell the rebellion. As for the territory at the border between the Mongolian and Jin dynasties, Temujin would probably leave it to Yelu Sibu and others to resist the Jin people in a while.

If the situation can be as inferred by Ye Qing, it means that after more than a year of war, the Mongolian, Jin and Song will once again enter a short period of peace.

Of course, in the past year, the Jin people were the most damaged, and the Song people benefited the most. Although the Mongols had not made any progress, at least they had an army of Khitan Liao people who absolutely obeyed their Mongols, which could be regarded as helping the Mongols stabilize their defense against the Jin people.

Between the three, the situation of both the Mongols and the Song people was very clear, and even the strategic goals of each other were very clear. Only the situation of the Jin people was slightly complicated, and there was even a danger of destruction in the event of chaos.

Between the Khitan Liao people and the Jin people,

However, there will continue to conflict, but the internal worries of the Jin Kingdom are what Ye Qing is most worried about, and he is not very clear whether Wanyan Jing will pay attention to his warnings to him.

Liu Keshi led the three thousand battalions led by Wang Chong and Xie Lun, who had withdrawn from Wuzhou to Yanjing. This is Ye Qing's current priority, which is to build a real military camp in Yanjing.

The Longcheng camp will naturally remain, thus forming a large rear for the Anxi Protectorate's troops, baggage and other sources. Yanjing needs to be listed as the top priority by Ye Qing, and even build another army that can form a huge advantage over the Mongolian cavalry in the future. Such an army must be three thousand battalions.

Ye Qing was not sure whether the current strength and technology of the Three Thousand Battalions could create guns that do not seek accuracy in a short period of time, but no matter what, the most urgent task at the moment was to give the Three Thousand Battalions more important and urgent tasks, and in a short period of time, they could use guns to equip half of the Hua Family Army's troops with guns.

Liu Keshi, Wang Chong and Xie Lun looked at Ye Qing as if they were looking at a monster: "The Sanqian Camp was renamed to the Breaking Camp? Then, in a year, we will build at least three thousand guns for the Huahua Army?"

"Is it very difficult?" Ye Qing asked knowingly.

"It's not very difficult, it's...yes..." Liu Keshi looked at Wang Chong and Xie Lun, who were also helpless, and then looked at Ye Qing and said, "This is simply impossible. It took Sanqian Camp more than half a year to build those fourteen guns. If he wanted to build three thousand guns in a year...it's completely impossible."

Ye Qing looked at Lianlian and shook his head, indicating that he was helpless, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

If even Master Liu Ke feels it is almost impossible, then there is probably no possibility, unless he is willing to continue to lower the technical requirements.

Although the Sanqian Battalion has been following Yelu Yue to fight, the Sanqian Battalion has extremely limited combat power. To put it bluntly, their role in the army is to attack the city and break the formation, that is, to use the killing weapon and gunpowder they have in their hands to blow up all the city walls that block the army's progress.

If the Three Thousand Battalions Xiang Zhuanghua Family Army went to fight to kill the enemy, it would be equivalent to giving it to you for nothing. The few people came up to give them heads to the enemy.

So at this time, Ye Qing had to settle for the second best. When Liu Ke and the other two were staring at the thoughtful Ye Qing, Ye Qing was silent for a while and asked: "Has the camp that broke the camp now been built according to the Longcheng camp?"

Liu Ke nodded: "It has been built long ago. It is built on the basis of the camp left by the Jin people, saving time, labor and labor, mainly to save money."

"Okay, since that's the case..." Ye Qing pondered and began to give up some things in his heart. It is natural to be feasible to retreat, but if he just retreats, it is equivalent to retreating: "Tomorrow I will go to the camp, Wang Chong and Xie Lun will find a few smart and capable people to follow me to think about it and see if I can create a slightly simpler one."

Liu Ke and his three men looked at each other again, obviously not expecting that Ye Qing would actually go on the battle in person. The three of them were surprised and naturally filled with excitement. Of course, they believed that if Ye Qing had come to personally guide the Three Thousand Camps, no, they should have changed their name to the Breaking Camp. Then the Breaking Camp can definitely create what Ye Qing wants in a short period of time.

Ye Qing fell into deep thought again. It was obviously difficult to imitate the gun in his hand with current technical means. Moreover, even for these dozen guns, the cost of each gun made him feel so painful and heartbreaking.

So if you want to equip a large army, you must take the path of good quality, low price, and durability.

Dai Zi should have a higher and more respectful position in the history of weapons, but because of a dream and various reasons, his achievements have become more bizarre in the long river of history, and it is even hard to distinguish between true and false.

The sky-storm cannon he transformed was named "General Weiyuan" by Kangxi. He made great contributions when he pacified Galdan. Another achievement, the continuous bead gun made by Dai Zi, dreamed of the dreamer rebuking him: God has the virtue of being alive. If you present this weapon to "flow on earth", your descendants will have no living people.

It is precisely because of this dream that Dai Zi had to "hide the weapon in his home" the beaded gun he made.

And this so-called continuous bead gun is even called the first machine gun in the world!

Gunpowder and projectiles are stored in the buttstock, with a total of twenty-eight rounds. With two machine wheels as the opening and closing, when the first trigger is pulled, the gunpowder and lead projectiles automatically fall into the barrel. The second machine rotates randomly, rubs flint, and ignites the gunpowder to fire lead projectiles. Although its accuracy is not as accurate as the rifle made by Ye Qing, compared to this era, it is already an absolute killer. In addition, it has a range of nearly 300 steps, and can still shoot through the enemy's heavy armor. For Ye Qing today, it can be regarded as an absolute killer for both infantry and horse wars.

Of course, the cost of this kind of killer is naturally extremely high, but compared with the only fourteen rifles in the world today, the price is naturally within the range that Ye Qing can absolutely accept. Similarly, because the more complex process of the fourteen rifles will inevitably make the Three Thousand Battalions theoretically not more difficult than building rifles when building this continuous bead gun.

So whether it is the bead gun or the sky cannon, Ye Qing has now put it on the agenda. Before going to Lin'an after the New Year, he must seize the time to implement these things so that he can make all necessary and sufficient preparations for the future conflict with the Mongols.
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