"It's natural."
Zhao Jun smiled and was already thinking about what position he should give Jia Changchao.
As he was speaking, Jia Changchao suddenly remembered something important and took out a document from his pocket and said, "Oh, I just passed by the Jinzouyuan on my way here. I happened to see that they had an urgent document to deliver, so I took it."
"Oh? What urgent article?"
Zhao Jun became interested. Generally, ordinary official documents reported to the central government from various places are not under the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court, but are sent to a certain department based on the content.
For example, a water conservancy company wants to plan a water conservancy project, such as a river dam, which requires a large amount of steel bars and cement.
However, the productivity along the way is limited, and central coordination is needed to allocate steel and cement powder from Wuan Iron and Steel Plant, Bianliang Cement Plant or other steel and cement plants. What should be done then?
At this time, the report should not be submitted to the Constitutional Yuan, but to the Ministry of Water Resources, its immediate superior.
The Ministry of Water Resources will send people to investigate. If they think the project is feasible, they will contact the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Finance, Wu'an Iron and Steel Plant and Bianliang Cement Plant to negotiate, including costs, project design, production capacity supply, etc.
If these departments determine that there is no problem with the plan, they will jointly report it to the Constitutional Yuan.
When the Constitutional Yuan sees that these departments can provide the financial expenditure, project planning and production capacity, it will sign and approve it. In this way, the project can officially start.
This procedure may seem cumbersome, but it also eliminates the need to report directly to the Constitutional Council, which would then have to send several lower-level departments to investigate and then jointly issue a report. This greatly reduces the workload of the Constitutional Council, and prevents a matter from having to be discussed with the Constitutional Council for a long time.
Simply put, it means delegating power to lower-level departments so that they can work freely. The Constitutional Yuan is mainly responsible for the general direction and the final power of approval, review, and verification.
Therefore, ordinary matters actually cannot reach the Constitutional Court at all. The matters that can truly be called urgent and sent to the Constitutional Court are generally national affairs.
really.
Jia Changchao handed over the document and said, "Di Qing defeated the main force of the Western Region Uighurs in just half a day, annihilated them, and recovered most of the Western Regions."
"oh?"
Zhao Jun raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and then said, "It's not the entire Western Region?"
"It's not that simple. This isn't the future where transportation is advanced."
Fan Zhongyan smiled bitterly and said, "You've never been to the northwest. You don't know how difficult it is to provide logistical supplies, as there are often thousands of miles of desolate land there."
"Of course I know that in later generations, we sent countless construction corps to Xinjiang to build it up."
Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "I just think that with Di Qing's ability, it shouldn't be a problem to recapture the entire Western Region in a short period of time."
"In fact, it's pretty much the same as saying we've recovered the entire Western Region."
Jia Changchao said, "In the official document, Di Qing explained that most of the territory of the Black Khanate was not within the traditional Western Regions, but in what would later be called Central Asia. It was thousands of miles away from Gaochang. Even if he wanted to attack, he would have to do it step by step."
"I see."
Zhao Jun finally understood the reason. He had always thought that the Western Regions were actually occupied by the Gaochang Uighurs and the Black Khanate.
Now we know that the Gaochang Uighurs actually occupied most of the Western Regions, and the Kara-Khanid Kingdom only occupied a small part of the Xinjiang border area of our country in later generations.
This is also because the ancients really did not understand the situation in the Western Regions. Even in later generations, discoveries often relied on archaeology, so it was normal that he did not know the situation in this country that was almost 4,000 kilometers away from him in a straight line.
Zhao Jun then looked at the official document submitted by Di Qing, which detailed the situation in the Western Regions. Di Qing was currently planning to continue his advance and station troops in the direction of Qiuci, which would later become the area around Kuche City in Xinjiang.
If the Kara Khanate refuses to submit to the Song Dynasty and the King of the Kara Khanate does not go to Bianliang to meet the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's army will continue its westward expedition, even if it is thousands of miles away, to destroy the Kara Khanate.
"Di Qing does have the style of the Han and Tang dynasties."
Zhao Jun finished reading the document and said with a smile, "Isn't this kind of culture lacking in the Song Dynasty right now?"
"What's wrong?"
Fan Zhongyan asked curiously.
Zhao Jun said, "Han officials have already gone to Kucha. If the Black Khan King does not come to Bianliang for an audience, we will send troops to destroy the Black Khan. This is quite a bit like the Tang Emperor issuing an edict and having all nations come to pay homage to him."
"Yes, at the beginning of the 13th year of the Zhenguan reign, all nations came to pay tribute, but only King Qu Wentai of Gaochang was absent. So Emperor Taizong of Tang said to his envoys, 'For several years, Gaochang has neglected its tribute and failed to observe the proper etiquette of a vassal. The emperor has appointed officials to the throne and allowed all our officials to pay homage to others. How can this be allowed? Now, at the beginning of this year, all nations have come to pay tribute, but King Wentai has not arrived. We are building deeper moats in preparation for our attack.'"
Zheng Jian sighed, "If you don't come to pay homage to the great state, you will be destroyed. This is the foundation of the Han and Tang dynasties' prosperity."
"Yes, although the Song Dynasty has become powerful now, it has been weak for too long and still cannot stand up straight. What we need is this kind of spirit and courage."
Zhao Jun looked around and said, "The reason why the Han and Tang dynasties were so powerful was due to their frequent military activities. They destroyed the Xiongnu and defeated the Turks. If anyone in the Western Regions refused to submit, even the Dayuan and Turgesh thousands of miles away would not be spared. Now, for our Great Song, it is time to revive the spirit of the Han and Tang dynasties."
“It seems we’ve achieved it.”
Xia Song, who had been silent, smiled and said, "Under the leadership of the Zhiyuan, we defeated the Yue and Li in the south, conquered the Japanese in the east, defeated the Liao Kingdom in the north, and destroyed the bandit Xia in the west. Now that Gaochang has been destroyed, who in the world can rival us?"
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