Hanhou

Sunset and moonrise, starlight all over the sky.

A gust of night wind blew across the stone steps, and the eunuchs with lanterns hurried past, their sleeves rustling.

Weiyang Palace is brightly lit.

In the propaganda room, several bronze lamps stand side by side, and three of them are placed on a low table, illuminating the room as bright as day.

Liu Che sat alone facing the case, with dozens of volumes of bamboo slips piled up in front of him.Unfolding a volume at random, it is the report of Hedong County. This year, there is a severe drought in the county. After the drought, locusts will grow and eat crops and vegetation.

"There are many hungry people in the counties and townships, and all of them are starved to death. The old man and the woman are desperate to eat, the boy is as thin as a stick, the strong man gathers as a bandit, and the women and children are brought together on the road. In just half a month, the locusts are flying all over the sky, and the disaster is getting worse. The governor of Hedong County, Fu Your Majesty please..."

Halfway through the memorial, the eunuchs in front of the hall reported, and the captain of the Siying school was ordered to see him.

"Xuan."

After reading the entire content, and handing over the pen to the prime minister and the general for discussion, Liu Che put down the bamboo slips, pinched his forehead, his young face rarely showed a trace of fatigue.

He has expended a lot of energy in promoting the new currency, and he is naturally tired.

This policy is not trivial, and it has too much to do with it. Even with the full support of Queen Dowager Dou, there are also Dai Wang, Jiaodong King, etc. who have come forward one after another. It is by no means an easy task to suppress all opposing voices.

On the surface, the implementation of the policy was quite smooth. The kings of the Liu family responded to the emperor one after another and took the initiative to separate the mines and salt farms, accept the iron officials sent by the court, and return the minting rights to the central government one after another.

But there is a premise that the emperor promises to exchange with sufficient benefits.

The wages of avarice is death.

It is true that Liu Che has a strong army in his hands, but it does not mean that he can take out people's pockets casually, and he can take out all the money.If there is no compensation at all, it will inevitably lead to dissatisfaction and resentment.Even if the mines, saltworks, and coinage rights in the hands of princes and kings are all bestowed by the emperor, the result is the same.

The good news of the Southern Expedition Army came quite timely.

With the emperor's promise, the empress dowager's endorsement, the imperial court withdrew the salt, iron and coinage rights, and the princes and kings received equivalent benefits, which is not a disadvantage.

More importantly, exchanging sugar and trade profits for coinage greatly weakened the threat of the vassal states to the central government, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone, and all parties to the transaction were happy.

Afterwards, there was no blush, nor did they turn the table, but the royal family members were very close, and the uncles and nephews were very affectionate.

Liu Che summoned a few people in his busy schedule, on the day when Xinying arrived in Beijing, in order to learn more about Baiyue's situation.

For Liu Che, who is full of curiosity, the expressions in the battle report alone cannot satisfy his thirst for knowledge.He needs to redraw the map collected in the propaganda room, detailing every river and stream, every forest, and every piece of fertile soil that can support the people.

Under Zhao Jia's several suggestions, Liu Che's thinking gradually changed.

The dominance remains the same, and the determination to push across the grassland remains firm.For foreigners who refused to accept the Han Dynasty and jumped to death, the trend of breaking their legs and then trying to reason became more and more obvious.

But there is one point, before and after the war, the young emperor began to think more about people's livelihood.

When it comes to military supplies, the first thought that flashes through my mind is not to increase taxes, but to try to make money with money.If you can't give birth for a while, you have to work hard on outsiders. If you have to, you will never add a burden to your own people.

Feed on the enemy and support war with war. This has existed since ancient times.

It's not his own territory, even if the search is clean, Liu Che has no pressure.On the contrary, heavy taxes on the people of the Han Dynasty will inevitably cause many problems and even lead to domestic instability.

With the examples cited by Zhao Jia, before acting, Liu Che will definitely think more about it, and try not to do it if he can.

However, Liu Che is not short of money now.

The young emperor has learned that it is not the best policy to pile up copper coins in the treasury until the ropes that string them rot.Money must be circulated to be money, and it will be more beneficial to enrich the country and the people.

In the Battle of Mayi, the Han army surrounded and wiped out nearly [-] Xiongnu, and even the military officials Shanyu and the four corners of the royal court almost capsized and were directly left in the Han territory.

Fanbang in the Western Regions made many inquiries, and when they learned that the news was true, they immediately followed suit and lined up to pay tribute to Chang'an.The people here seem to be competing for thick skin. You bend down and hug your thighs. I knelt down and called Yeye. I also pretended to be the grandson of the Huns. Who doesn't know who!

When the envoy came to hug his thigh, he didn't care about the fact that the envoy of the Huns was next door.In case of angering the other party and making the other party unable to step down, they dare not do anything in Chang'an, and on the way back, they can be chopped into minced meat in minutes.

Probably feeling life-threatening, the clever foreign envoy directly stayed in Chang'an, refusing to leave.Those who are not smart enough will start to follow suit when they see this situation.

Anyway, Chang'an has food and drink, and the market is bustling, so staying here is not a loss at all.

The king is still waiting for news?

The sky is high and the emperor is far away, wherever love goes!

On the Silk Road, a hundred people can make a small country.The ruler of the country is directly connected with the head of the village, and disobedience and disobedience are nothing at all.

Daxing, who is in charge of foreign affairs, ordered Wang Hui to go out on business, and accompanied Tainong ordered Han Anguo, and led his army south to kill people.

No matter how good-tempered the remaining subordinates were, they would have blue veins on their foreheads when they met such a group of thick-skinned hobbits.It took only a few days to go from nice words and euphemistic words to kicking him out three times a day, and he was almost kicked out of the city gate.

No matter how many methods have been exhausted, the other party insists on not leaving, and even hugs the door leaf when dragged away.

Such a situation may not be believed by anyone, but it actually happened in Chang'an.If Zhao Jia had entered the city half a day earlier, he would have witnessed the grand occasion with his own eyes.

The foreign envoys are greedy for the prosperity of Chang'an, and cheating is one aspect.

On the other hand, as I said before, those who can be sent to Chang'an are not stupid.Living next door to the envoy of the Huns, and knowing the purpose of my trip, needless to say, there must be Daofeng waiting for me on the way back.

That being the case, it might as well stay some more time in Chang'an.

The Huns can wait for one day, ten days and a half months, and three, four, five months?

They just don't believe that when the grassland tribes are unstable, these Huns will wait for several months.If they are really persistent to this point... At worst, they will take root in Chang'an and not leave!

Because Wang Hui was not there, most of the memorials about the envoys would be sent to the emperor.

Liu Che was interesting to watch at first, but after two or three months in a row, it was really not ordinary annoying.If it hadn't been dissuaded by Dou Ying and Wei Wan, it was hard to guarantee that they would not have sent troops to throw out all the envoys who were in Chang'an.

Counting people next to each other, the latest one was summoned half a month ago, and there was no problem of wrong throwing at all.

It's a pity that this can't be done.

The small country stuck in the commercial roads of the Western Regions played a key role in the next battle plan of the Han Dynasty and the opening up of broader markets and trade channels.Without repeated persuasion from Dou Ying and Wei Wan, Liu Che knew how powerful it was.

He really didn't want to embarrass himself, so he simply pushed all the relevant memorials to Wei Wan, and entrusted him generously.

"Prime Minister, I believe in you!"

Wei Wan, who was wearing the halo of "old age", lowered her eyelids. She couldn't blatantly shirk the heavy responsibility entrusted by the emperor, but it didn't mean she couldn't paddle.Invite the doctor Yu Shi who is in charge of the deputy prime minister, pushed the memorial, and said immediately: "I believe you!"

Facing the memoirs with the same content and piled up like hills, no matter how low-key and restrained, no matter how indifferent, he couldn't help but want to swear and greet Wei Wan, who threw all the work to him and pretended to be sabotage.

After three dynasties?

Coincidentally, so is he.

older?

Coincidentally, he is too.

In charge of the deputy prime minister?

True.But how could he remember that a certain elder with the surname Wei was still the prime minister?

The two highly respected elders, who are nearly 150 years old together, pinch together, and the scene is quite spectacular.The most terrible thing is that if anyone can't pinch and falls to the ground and touches porcelain, the problem will be serious.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Che made an excuse to escape, leaving behind Dou Ying, who was a general, and was caught by two people, one on each side, and he couldn't break free.

Looking at the empty short table, Wei Qihou, who has always acted calmly, suddenly became violent.

It is not without reason that the relatives of the Han Dynasty and the emperor did not get along well!

At the court meeting the next day, Wei Qihou's whole body was shrouded in low air pressure, and the black air above his head was almost invisible.All the officials in the court were in awe, and lamented the mighty and domineering general.

Empress Dowager Dou heard about it in the palace and thought that Dou Ying was going to cause trouble because she was confused, so she called him into the palace to reprimand him regardless of his illness.After Dou Ying finished telling the story, she realized that she had misunderstood.But thinking of the cause of the incident, the old-fashioned Empress Dowager Dou couldn't help being dumbfounded, and she didn't say anything for a long time.

However, Chen Jiao couldn't hold back, and covered her mouth with a chuckle.

After listening to most of the conversation outside the hall, Liu Che didn't want to make trouble for himself, so he ran back to Weiyang Palace and continued to deal with official documents.

"The king is in the south, so he doesn't know my suffering."

After finally meeting someone who could confide in him, instead of busy drawing up maps and asking about the battle situation, Liu Che began to vomit bitterness while Han Yan and Cao Shi were at the same time.

The corners of Zhao Jia's mouth trembled when he heard it, and he exhausted all his self-control to maintain a normal expression, and did not "failure" on the spot.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Wei Yue and Li Danghu, and found that the former was beautiful and the latter was serious and upright, seemingly unaffected at all. He couldn't help but start to doubt himself. Sure enough, he couldn't cultivate well, and he needed to continue to work hard.

In fact, let alone Wei Yue, if he looked closely at Li Danghu, he would find that the other party's "upright" expression was almost stiff, and he didn't dare to make any moves, otherwise he would definitely ruin his work on the spot.

After spitting out the bitterness, let's get back to the topic.

Liu Che ordered the eunuch to unfold the map, took silk cloth and drawing tools, and handed them to Zhao Jia, who drew the map of Baiyue himself.Especially Nanyue and Minyue, Liu Che attached great importance to these two newly included lands.

"Your Majesty, Tai Nongling has personally seen that there is indeed fertile soil here. I asked the local natives that Zhao Tuo once practiced plowing, but except for some counties in South Vietnam, most natives are still accustomed to slash-and-burn farming. There is no careful care, and the yield per mu It can also reach two or three stones, and it can be ripened twice or even three times a year."

Zhao Jia started, winked at Han Yan, and concentrated on drawing.

Receiving his gaze, Han Yan nodded, and explained to Liu Che the topography, local customs and customs of Baiyue, and how the Yue people farmed, fished and hunted.

"Nanyue and Minyue both have large ships that can go to sea. Nanyue has a fleet of ships that are several feet long, no less than naval warships, and even larger ones that can face the wind and waves on the sea."

"South Vietnam has a seaport, and foreign businessmen occasionally stop by, and there are especially many poisoned people."

"There are many treasures such as pearls, corals, and tortoise shells in the local area. There are also gold colored stones, and jade is rare."

"Most of the people eat rice, have dark complexion, have broken hair and tattoos, and are barefoot and barefoot. Men are good at hunting, and women are good at farming and weaving.

When Han Yan told the story, Zhao Jia's map gradually took shape.When he found a gap, Wei Yue and Li Danghu each wrote a pen to make it up for him.

Cao Shi had nothing to do, so he ate fruit after mouthful.Seeing Han Yan winking at him, he quickly understood the other party's intentions, swallowed the fruit in his mouth, took over from Han Yan, and told Liu Che about Nanzheng's experience.

What he said focused on fighting against South Vietnam.Especially in the battle against Panyu, from the Nanyue prince's surrender, the fourth battalion breaking through the city gate, to the Nanyue king Zhao Hu's performance at the last moment, he did not miss a single bit.

With Cao Shi's help, Han Yan was able to stop and take a breath, and gulped down half a glass of warm water to moisten his smoldering throat.

"After all, I was born in the Central Plains, and my ancestors are the people of China."

After listening to Cao Shi's words, Liu Che sighed softly.

"Zhao Hu has integrity, barbarians are contemptible. He should order someone to repair his ancestral grave, allow his son to stay in Chang'an, confer a title, and be compared with the children of the Han family."

"Your Majesty is merciful."

As soon as Cao Shi finished speaking, Zhao Jia, Wei Yue and Li Danghu stopped writing at the same time.

On the white silk cloth, mountains, rivers, dense forests and hills are all presented.Zhao Jia was even more ingenious, circled a few blocks in the blank space, and suggested to Liu Che that these places are close to South Vietnam, and the land must be fertile. Next time you send troops to go out, you might as well take them all.

If the imperial army cannot be dispatched, it can send county soldiers and kingdom soldiers.

In short, it is necessary to lay down the Han Dynasty version of the boundary monument, occupying the following four words: since ancient times.