The cloud sideburns and flowers are shaking, and the hibiscus tent is warm for the spring night.

The spring night is bitter and short, and the day is high, and the king does not rise early from then on.

These poems are the most vivid to describe the current Li Ke, but after Irina arrived, the two of them stuck together almost every day, and even some major military and political affairs, Li Ke pushed others to do.

In addition, after Li Ke learned about the situation in the Eastern Roman Empire through Irina, he always felt that this internal dispute in the Roman Empire should not end in a short time, and now the two sides are only fighting, but Li Ke's intuition told him that a more intense conflict is likely to break out between Theodosius and Constans II.

During the period when Li Ke and Irina were forgetful of staying together, the only city that was not conquered by the Romans who revolted was soon captured by Wang Fangyi's army, and all the Visigoths in the city were executed, and the Visigothic forces of the entire Iberian Peninsula were finally completely eliminated, and the next step was to start preparing for a more important thing, that is, the establishment of the state.

At this time, Li Ke finally couldn't dodge, because the founding of the country is not just a founding ceremony, and there are countless things to prepare behind it, such as the establishment of administrative institutions at all levels and the garrisons in various places, all of which need to be handled by him personally. At this time, Irina also showed the intelligence of a woman, she not only took the initiative to persuade Li Ke to take state affairs first, but also began to appear frequently in the city of Barcelona, and made her identity public, which made the original Romans ecstatic.

Especially through some secret channels, the relationship between Li Ke and Irina slowly spread, which made those Romans shocked and at the same time, they no longer had any prejudice against Li Ke's rule. After all, now reign over them. It was the lover of the Eastern Roman Empress, which was in the hearts of the Romans. has regarded Li Ke as his own.

There are also some infatuated girls, but Li Ke is secretly portrayed as an infatuated prince. For the sake of his beloved Empress Irina, he came to the Iberian Peninsula in order to be able to see the Empress again one day. This infatuation touched the hearts of countless Roman girls, and at the same time made Li Ke the dream lover of unmarried girls or married young women throughout the Iberian Peninsula.

It's a pity that politics is politics, it can't be as romantic as the girls fantasize, Li Ke and Irina do have real feelings, but Li Ke still values the location of the Iberian Peninsula and the future development prospects, as for whether he and Irina can stay together. This kind of thing is not to be forced.

The Iberian Peninsula is not small, even close to half the size of Tianzhu, and has been ruled by the Roman and Visigothic kingdoms, which has made it highly civilized. Half of the peninsula is a plateau region, and the climate is relatively cool and pleasant, suitable for growing grapes, olives and wheat, and handicrafts and commerce are also relatively developed, but because of the barbaric rule of the Goths, the various industries on the island have shrunk to varying degrees.

After bringing the entire peninsula under its own rule. Li Ke finally agreed to the founding of the country proposed by Cen Changqian and others, after all, he went overseas alone and urgently needed a righteous name, and at the same time, the civil and military officials who followed Li Ke also needed a greater reward. Therefore, the matter of statehood is naturally urgent.

After several months of busyness, Li Ke finally established the state of the Iberian Peninsula and proclaimed himself emperor, with the name of Wu. The capital is tentatively set as Barcelona, but it has now been renamed Xijing by Li Ke. The original Wu princess Yang was the queen of Great Wu, but Yang took her children in Taiwan. is not by Li Ke's side. Irina attended the founding ceremony as the Roman empress, but when the ceremony was held, she kept standing by Li Ke's side, which was supposed to be the position of the empress.

In addition, at the founding ceremony of the Wu Kingdom, the three major empires of the Tang Dynasty, the Great Qi and Tianzhu all sent envoys to congratulate them, and Rome, Persia and Dashi, as well as some other countries also sent envoys, but except for a few envoys such as Persia who sincerely congratulated them, the envoys of Rome and Dashi and other countries had very different expressions, which made people look at it with endless aftertaste.

After the completion of the founding ceremony, the state of Wu imitated the administrative structure of the Great Qi and divided the entire Iberian Peninsula into several states, with counties under the prefectures, townships under the counties, and villages under the countryside for administration. Moreover, all levels of officials are divided into administrative structures, and there is no boundary between officials and officials, and the system for selecting officials is also the same as that of Daqi.

In addition, the central government system is almost copied from the system of Daqi, and the post of prime minister is also established, although Cen Changqian is young, but an administrative master, coupled with a flexible brain, the prestige is enough to convince the public, so he was appointed as the first prime minister by Li Ke.

From the above, it can be seen that Li Ke almost completely copied the system of Daqi in terms of administration, and the government at all levels also vigorously promoted the development of local industry and commerce, and at the same time introduced a large number of shipbuilders from Daqi and Datang to build shipyards in the coastal ports of the peninsula, apparently wanting to follow the same path as Daqi.

However, Li Ke and Cen Changqian are not only plagiarists, according to the different internal conditions of the two countries, they have also made changes to some policies, such as the most important ethnic policy aspects. The 300,000 people recruited by Li Ke have been sent to the Iberian Peninsula by Li Ke one after another, of which only 80,000 are Han talents, plus the Han people who came voluntarily later, the total is only about 120,000 people, and the rest are all steppe Hu people, Sanhan people, Japanese people, etc.

In addition to the more than 300,000 people, the rest is the most populous original Romans, who account for more than 60% of the total population of the peninsula, reaching more than 2 million people, and the rest are all local ethnic groups on the peninsula, so now the total population of the peninsula is close to 4 million, and the ethnic group is very complex, and the most important thing is that the number of Han people is less than one-thirtieth of the total population.

In the face of this situation, if the four-level alien system of Daqi is directly implemented, it is likely to cause a backlash from the locals, after all, although Li Ke's military strength is strong, but if he wants to govern the Iberian Peninsula well, he also needs to rely on the strength of the locals, otherwise if he implements strong rule, there will be an uprising here, and a riot will be there, then he might as well go back directly to be his own peace prince.

It is precisely because of this consideration that Li Ke did not implement a four-level alien system on the peninsula, but declared that all different races in the country were equal in law, and the Han people were no exception, and they were collectively called Wu people. However, the Wu people do not include the Visigoths, this barbarian people during the rule of the Iberian Peninsula, all the ethnic groups on the peninsula have a high pressure to rule, it can be said that all the ethnic groups are very hostile to the Goths, especially the largest number of the original Romans, and they are eager to kill all the Goths.

However, after all, the Goths have ruled on the peninsula for hundreds of years, and the population is also very large, and it is the second largest nation on the peninsula except for the Romans.

For the Goths, the local peoples represented by the Romans are opposed to giving them equal status, and Cen Changqian, who is next to Li Ke, was also humiliated by the Goths when he first arrived at the Strait of Gibraltar, which made him resentful, who has always been cautious, so he also proposed to Li Ke that the Goths must not be given an equal status.

So in this case, in the end, Li Ke finally decided to reduce all the Goths to slaves and engage in some coolie labor such as mining, road building, and city building, which was also the first batch of slaves in the Wu State. And after tasting the sweetness of slavery, Wu also began to introduce slaves to Africa, which made the entire Wu State soon develop rapidly like Daqi, but this also made the various industries of Wu also begin to accelerate their development.

It's just that after the law of ethnic equality was determined, Li Ke began to reward him, and almost all of them were knighted, especially the European aristocratic plan he implemented, not only for the immigrants who moved from the Tang Dynasty and the Great Qi later, but also for the Han people recruited before, so the vast majority of the Han people have titles, and the lowest is also a baron, which makes the Han people in actual status higher than other nationalities, but because other nationalities are also knighted. So it did not arouse the resentment of these peoples.

It's just that this method of sealing the title also brought certain disadvantages, that is, it led to the decline in the gold content of Li Ke's domestic title later, for example, the same earl, the earl of Wu will feel a little shorter when he meets the earl of the Tang Dynasty or the Great Qi.

As for the military aspect, there is nothing to say, the original 50,000 troops suffered very little losses in the conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom, and they were quickly replenished, this all-firearms army as the core of the Great Wu army, was given the name of the Royal Guards by Li Ke, stationed in Xijing in peacetime, and was transferred to the front line in wartime, and was an armed force mainly engaged in foreign conquests.

In addition, in the previous campaign, he has organized a lot of Roman troops, and now based on these armies, after reorganization and expansion, temporarily organized an army of 200,000, but these new armies still need strict drills, and there are not many veterans on the battlefield, so the combat effectiveness is not strong, and now it is mainly stationed in various places to maintain local order.

At the same time, Li Ke also established a military academy in Xijing, and selected young and outstanding officers in the army to study in it, in addition to the professional courses of the military academy, the most important thing is to strengthen the education of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, after all, the army is the foundation of a country's existence, and if you want to control the army, you must control the thoughts of the officers, which has long been reached in the high-level of Daqi and Datang.

It's just that when Li Ke was carrying out a vigorous transformation of his newly established Wu State, a great event happened on the side of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the consequences of this incident affected the entire Mediterranean Sea and even the whole world. (To be continued......)