The Nameless of the Common Clans

When Chen Mo returned to Luoyang, it was already the time for the autumn harvest. It was normal to travel a long distance for a year or two these days, especially for a man like Chen Mo who had a family, a large group of people, and was not in a hurry to travel. He spent at least two or three hours every day setting up camp and breaking camp. After all, he was the only king of a different surname in the world, so he had to pay attention to the pomp and circumstance. In addition, Chen Mo attached great importance to his own safety, not to mention that the whole family was out this time.

However, the situation of assassins everywhere like last time did not happen this time. After all, Cao Cao had been destroyed, and the aristocratic families in the Central Plains had either chosen to join Chen Mo or chosen to remain silent. The rest were basically gone. Haters had either fled to Jiangdong or died on the way to assassination. Even if there were a few who had this idea, Chen Mo's accompanying guards would deter them.

After returning to Luoyang, life returned to normal. Chen Mo divided his time into three parts, three hours to deal with government affairs and military affairs. Unless there was an emergency, Chen Mo would not easily break his daily plan. Jia Xu and others also knew Chen Mo's work and rest time, so they tried to put the things that needed Chen Mo to deal with during this time, which was probably one morning plus noon.

In the afternoon, Chen Mo would set aside an hour to build up his strength, and the rest of the time would be to accompany his family and teach his children.

Chen Mo didn't have to worry about the family affairs. Cai Yan, as the eldest wife in the family, was also the real hostess. After following Chen Mo for so many years, she could handle the big and small things in the family in an orderly manner.

The Prime Minister's Mansion was naturally not small, and the furnishings were also quite particular. Chen Mo would not pursue pleasure excessively, but when he had the conditions, he would not pretend to make himself suffer. In fact, although being honest was worthy of praise, it was a moral issue and had nothing to do with political ability. In this regard, the court and the people looked at things differently.

Most people think that as long as they are honest, they are good officials. But from Chen Mo's point of view, as long as you are not excessive and a little greedy, it doesn't matter. As long as you can implement the court's orders well and make the people live well, you are a good official. As for personal conduct, there are bound by the circle planned by the court's laws. If you want to go out of the circle, you will naturally be punished. Therefore, under Chen Mo's rule, it is not difficult to find that many officials with good political achievements always have places to criticize in their morality.

But if you really want to find trouble with these officials with these things, you will find that they do not constitute a crime. At most, they will be fined or demoted. It is basically impossible to kill them with one stick.

The Prime Minister's Mansion also has its own rules. Chen Mo now has five wives and concubines. As the eldest wife and the legal wife, Cai Yan's status in the Prime Minister's Mansion is naturally unquestionable, especially since Chen's mother is now old and basically doesn't care about things. She walks the dog, hugs her grandson, or gets together with familiar old women to chat about family matters every day. Therefore, Cai Yan has a very high prestige in the Prime Minister's Mansion, but most of the time, Cai Yan will not use her rights as the eldest wife.

The wives and concubines get along relatively well. After being with Chen Mo for so many years, Cai Yan still understands these management arts to some extent. Power at home is more of a deterrent, which can be seen by others, but not easily used. She knows what kind of atmosphere her husband likes, so she will deliberately create such an atmosphere at home. The literary and artistic atmosphere of her early years is still there, but she has a temperament of power without anger.

Strictly speaking, Zhen Mi, Yun Si, Juan Er, and Diao Chan are all concubines, but there are differences between them. Among the four women, Zhen Mi is naturally the best in terms of family background, and because of her age, she is also quite favored. But since Chen Mo killed eight members of the Zhen family in a row because the Zhen family crossed the line two years ago, Zhen Mi has become more cautious in doing things. Although she would not make trouble unreasonably in the past, and Chen Mo treated her very well, after that incident, Zhen Mi understood that she is herself and the Zhen family is the Zhen family. Her husband does not like her family to do too many extraordinary things by using her status.

Yun Si and Juan Er are the first women to follow Chen Mo. Although they are concubines, they also have their own authority in the family. Yun Si manages the finances and assists Cai Yan in managing the household expenses, while Juan Er is responsible for the maids and servants in the mansion. The two of them can also be regarded as Cai Yan's confidants.

As for Diao Chan, her beautiful temperament also made Chen Mo quite obsessed. If you count them carefully over the years, she was the one who spent the most nights with Chen Mo. She had always wanted to have a child over the years, but for some reason, she could not get pregnant. It was obvious that Chen Mo had worked the hardest on her, but she was still unable to have a child, which made her quite melancholy, especially as she got older, the possibility of fertility was even lower, which also made her quite anxious.

However, Chen Mo was not too concerned about this. Now that he had three sons and one daughter, Chen Mo was not too concerned about reproducing more offspring, but he paid more attention to Diao Chan's emotions. For him, children were important, but his women were equally important.

Not only Chen Mo, Cai Yan also cared about Diao Chan, and even invited a doctor to treat her, but the result was a bit disappointing. When Diao Chan was with Wang Yun before, it seemed that she had taken some medicine, which damaged her fertility!

After learning about this, Diao Chan almost collapsed. Fortunately, Chen Mo and Cai Yan accompanied her every day, which gradually helped her get out of the sadness. For a woman, it is naturally a pity that she cannot give birth to her own children. However, because of this, Diao Chan is the object of everyone's care in the mansion. Since she has no possibility of giving birth, she transfers this maternal love to other children and treats other children as her own.

In order to avoid Diao Chan's sadness, Cai Yan took the initiative to let her live with her and accompany Chen Mo...

Of course, the family can get along so harmoniously, in addition to Cai Yan herself, it is also because Chen Mo can treat everyone equally most of the time, take into account everyone's mood, and have a lot of time to accompany. This is also the reason why Chen Mo has not thought about looking for a woman since Zhen Mi. Five of them are already a bit difficult for him to take care of. If there are more, he is worried that his backyard will become a Shura field.

Besides, all the women in his family are good-looking. Cai Yan is well-educated, Zhen Mi is beautiful and intelligent, Yun Si had a rough life in her early years and is cold to outsiders, but she is gentle in front of Chen Mo. Juan'er has been with Chen Mo for the longest time. She is a beautiful girl from a small family, and Diao Chan is beautiful. Most of the characteristics of beautiful women are gathered here, so Chen Mo rarely has any thoughts about women outside.

The fifteenth year of Han Shou was another bumper year for Chen Mo without any surprise. As long as the Central Plains is stable, the annual grain output is almost more than that of Guanzhong and Hebei combined. The most important thing is that this is far from the limit. There is still a lot of potential in the Central Plains that has not been tapped. In the past two years, Luoyang's political affairs have mainly revolved around Guanzhong, including the division of clans, the reform of official administration, the establishment of academies, and water conservancy projects in various places.

The feedback brought by so many things also made Chen Mo very satisfied. If it continues like this, it will become richer and richer until it reaches the balance that Chen Mo expected.

However, if the balance in Chen Mo's budget is really achieved, and no new sources of resources have been developed, I am afraid that after the peak, there will be another turmoil and decline. This is something that Chen Mo does not want to see, but it is bound to happen. Although that day is not very close to now, it will not arrive at the current development speed for hundreds of years, but the feeling of powerlessness that can foresee that day coming, but cannot stop it, makes Chen Mo very upset.

The only way to think of now is to increase grain production and reclaim land as much as possible, and to get help from Zeng Guang resources. He has also discussed this issue with top wise men such as Xun You, Jia Xu, Li Ru, and Xu Shu, but even if all the top talents under Chen Mo were gathered, they could not come up with a very good solution. This cycle of heaven seems to be a general trend.

Without considering any restrictions, everyone can only come up with the acquisition of more extensive land, but in this case, at the current speed of information transmission, the farther away the place, the more difficult it is to control, and it is still possible to collapse in the end.

Jia Xu proposed a theory that envoys could be sent to the currently known countries, including Shentu, Daqin, Kangju, and Wusun, through business and cultural dissemination. On the one hand, it could promote Chinese culture, and on the other hand, it could attract high-end talents from these countries to come to the Central Plains to serve. At the same time, it could encourage the people to do business with foreign countries. After establishing diplomatic relations with these countries, they could start trade and transport more resources to support the world.

The porcelain and silk of the Han Dynasty today are treasures for these foreign countries. They can use this to plunder more wealth and resources from various countries to enrich the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the people in the Central Plains.

Jia Xu's idea is undoubtedly the most suitable. Although the current population is far from the point where the country is paralyzed, it is necessary to start thinking about this aspect and make arrangements early. But even so, Chen Mo thinks that this is just to delay the arrival of that day.

But for now, the strategy mentioned by Jia Xu is the best way to think of. First set the tone, and when the world is really peaceful, you can start to arrange it.

In fact, Chen Mo's idea was a bit ahead of its time, but it was learned from the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty. Whenever the population reaches a certain level, various problems will arise to reduce the population. In the past, the biggest way to reduce the population was war, but there may be other ways. So even though Chen Mo knew that it was difficult or even impossible to solve this problem, he still wanted to give it a try. Even if he couldn't solve it, it could at least provide an idea for future generations of knowledgeable people, and maybe it could be solved in the future.