On the tenth day of the first month of the ninth year of Zhang Wu's reign, the Han Channel was sailed, and in February all officials in Guangling were rewarded. This news inspired officials all over the Han Dynasty, and the work of building the canal was in full swing.

And in May, another good news came: the Xianbei in the east surrendered, and the Xianbei in the west fled to Yanran Mountain in Mobei.

Zhang Liao continued to attack,

He went two thousand miles into the Hanhai Desert and defeated the western Xianbei at Zhuoxie Mountain. He then went north to attack Longcheng and drove the western Xianbei to the Jinwei Mountain area. On the way back to the court, he followed the example of Dou Xian and carved stones on Yanran Mountain to record his merits.

Now the entire desert, which is later Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, is divided into southern Mongolia and northern Mongolia.

Monan is the area around Inner Mongolia.

Originally occupied by the Xianbei people,

Tanshihuai established the powerful Xianbei Empire in the entire Monan, and defeated the Han Dynasty many times. After Tanshihuai, Xianbei split into three parts: West and East.

Western Xianbei is mainly located in the northwest of Bingzhou, and its approximate location is in the later Wuhai City, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, Wuwei City, and Jinchang City, Gansu Province.

In later generations, desertification was more severe in these places, but during the Han Dynasty, it was not only a vast grassland, but also a large number of lakes, such as the famous Juyanze, Duyeze and Mingze, so it was a very suitable place for the grassland people to live.

The central Xianbei is entrenched in the north of Bingzhou and the northwest region of Youzhou. The location area is Ordos, Hohhot, Ulanqab, etc. in later generations.

Because it was the closest, the one that had the most wars with the Central Plains dynasty was Xianbei in the central part of the country.

The eastern Xianbei live south of the Greater Xianbei Mountains, that is, to the south of the Greater Khingan Mountains.

The approximate location is in the Xilingol League of later Inner Mongolia and the northwest area of ​​Chifeng.

This is the situation in the entire Monan and Xianbei tribes.

What about the Huns?

By the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu, the most powerful enemy of the Western Han Dynasty, had basically conquered the country.

The first decline of the Xiongnu was during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

He was chased by Wei Qing and Huo Qubing all the way to Beihai, which was almost the area around Lake Baikal in Russia in later generations.

The second decline occurred in the third year of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, during the three-pronged attack on the Xiongnu in the Western Han Dynasty.

The result of this battle was that the Huns were almost crippled. Three-tenths of the Huns were killed and one-half of the livestock were killed. Coupled with the bad weather, the Huns were close to annihilation.

By the Eastern Han Dynasty, affected by bad weather, the Huns were increasingly declining. Not only did a large number of natural disasters occur in the areas they ruled, causing famine and epidemics among humans and animals, and most of them died. There were also internal conflicts and divisions.

In AD 46, the 22nd year of Emperor Guangwu's founding, the Huns were officially divided into the Southern Xiongnu and the Northern Xiongnu. The Southern Xiongnu Chanyu Ri Zhu Wangbi led 40,000 Huns southward and surrendered to the Han Dynasty.

In the following more than a hundred years, the Northern Huns were attacked successively by the Han, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Southern Xiongnu and even Dawan, Wusun and other countries in the Western Regions, and were very weak.

In the end, I had to continue fleeing westward,

They barely defeated Wusun and occupied the Wusun Kingdom, Kangju Kingdom and other places, which was almost the same area as Xinjiang, Ili and Kazakhstan in later generations. The entire Monan was given to Xianbei.

Therefore, this time Zhang Liao went north to attack Xianbei. In the Monan region, they only had one enemy, Xianbei in the west.

Because during the Battle of Liaodong, Wuhuan had surrendered.

The central Xianbei was already crippled by Lu Bu. After Zhang Liao went north, the leader of the central Xianbei, Bu Dugen, was defeated and surrendered. Xie Guini chose to surrender. The eastern Xianbei was even more afraid to go against the powerful Han Dynasty.

Only the western Xianbei were unwilling to surrender, so Zhang Liao attacked boldly and defeated the western Xianbei army. They fled to Jinwei Mountain and lived like the northern Xiongnu.

When he learned that Zhang Liao had returned with a great victory, Liu Bei was overjoyed. He rewarded many of the soldiers who went on the expedition and told the world that the Han Dynasty would show off its power.

An emperor's long-term achievements are naturally his martial arts and martial arts.

In terms of civil governance, Liu Bei sent an ocean-going fleet to bring back a large number of high-yielding crops, raising countless people. He also established the rule of law, separated the three powers, and supervised local officials, making it difficult for officials to blatantly harm the people.

In terms of martial arts, Liu Bei recovered the ruined country, rejuvenated the Han Dynasty, and occupied the Sanhan Peninsula and Wonu Island. This time he swept across Monan Xianbei and Yanran Leshi. He has reached the extreme of being a king.

So in August of the ninth year of Zhangwu AD, Liu Bei carefully asked the cabinet whether he could be enshrined in Mount Tai next year in recognition of his merits.

The reason for being cautious.

It was because Liu Bei was a little embarrassed.

Taishan Fengchan is not a simple matter.

According to the records in "Historical Records: Book of Fengchan", except for emperors with extremely powerful civil and military skills, ordinary emperors were not qualified to go.

By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, only four emperors had been there.

The first is Qin Shihuang, the second is Qin II, the third is Emperor Wu of Han, and the fourth is Emperor Guangwu.

Hu Hai, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, was just joining in the fun. Many people did not take him seriously and did not recognize his merits.

Therefore, apart from the twelve ancient emperors recorded by Sima Qian in "Historical Records: Fengchan Book", there are basically three recognized emperors: Qin Shihuang, Han Wu Emperor and Guangwu Emperor.

Moreover, these three emperors are all ranked in the top five not only in Qin and Han Dynasty, but also among the emperors in the entire history. Only Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang can compare with them.

Therefore, when Liu Bei carefully asked Chen Mu, Xunyu, Xunyou, and Jia Xu whether they were qualified to be granted Zen status, he felt blushing.

He is really afraid that others will say that he is thick-skinned and insists on going to Mount Tai to forcibly commend his achievements even though he is not qualified.

However, what he didn't expect was that when Chen Mu, Xun Yu, Xun You Ju, Jia Xu and others heard about this, they all just smiled and did not object immediately. Instead, they discussed the situation seriously.

After a little discussion, everyone thought that Liu Bei's achievements were enough to go to Mount Tai to be enshrined in Zen, so they all agreed with the matter and thought that he could go to Mount Tai to be enshrined in Zen next year.

Liu Bei was very happy to hear that the cabinet agreed. On the next day, he summoned all ministers above the second rank in Luoyang to discuss the matter.

The sixth day of August in the ninth year of Zhangwu.

In the small hall located behind the Xuanshi Hall, almost all the Han Prime Minister, two generals, Sangong and Jiuqing, the cabinet, and the Nine Tigers who were not stationed in other places and stayed in Luoyang were present.

Sitting at the top is naturally Liu Bei, followed by the two generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and then Chen Mu.

Below are the three ministers and nine ministers and many cabinet members, and the other nine tigers will sit quietly.

After everyone had arrived, Chen Mucai said loudly: "Everyone, I have called you here today to discuss three topics. The first one is that the First Five-Year Plan is coming to an end. Year-end reports on the work progress of each department need to be summarized.

Let’s start with Da Sinong.”

"Back to Your Majesty, Prime Minister, the First Five-Year Plan will comprehensively promote grain production."

Grand Sinong Wang Yi stood up and raised his hands and said: "According to the arrangement of the Prime Minister, the agricultural production areas in the south should be in the Lianghuai, Jiangdong and Jinghu areas. Nowadays, the rice production in these places has doubled, and the grain output has doubled. And corn, potatoes,

Sweet potatoes and peanuts have been grown in the north, everywhere..."

Next is a bunch of data, such as the percentage increase in grain production in various places over the years, the current grain prices among the people, what measures the court has taken to deal with the rise and fall of grain prices and salt prices, and the food supply when disasters occur in various places.

Whether it is sufficient, etc.

It is worth mentioning that although the Han Dynasty is now reunited, it does not mean that the country is in good weather.

Frequent natural disasters caused by the Little Ice Age still exist.

Historically, the Little Ice Age of the Eastern Han Dynasty did not appear only at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but there were obvious signs during the period of Emperor Huan.

According to historical records, in the 60 years from 140 to 200, the number of natural disasters in the Eastern Han Dynasty reached an astonishing more than 100 times. There were 28 recorded solar eclipses alone. During this period, the Northern Huns even nearly died due to natural disasters.

Genocide.

Therefore, it can be said that the Little Ice Age lasted for a very long time and did not end until the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty. The damage lasted for more than a hundred years. It played a great role in promoting the huge population decline at the end of the Han Dynasty.

After Liu Bei unified the Han Dynasty, natural disasters continued.

Like the Han River and Yangtze River floods the year before last, the two lakes areas and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River suffered flood disasters.

There was a severe drought in Guanzhong last summer, earthquakes in Xiliang and Guanzhong in winter, a locust plague in Guandong at the beginning of this year, hail in Youzhou, and rain in Huaibei for three consecutive months.

This will test the dispatching ability of local officials and the court.

Fortunately, Chen Mu reformed the official system and determined the fixed position. A large number of granaries were built in various places for storage during normal times. During the harvest years, the court purchased a large amount of grain for storage. In times of famine, granaries were immediately opened to release grain to cope with the crisis.

Then the imperial court would send a large number of officials there, some responsible for resettling the victims, some responsible for plague prevention, some responsible for counting the number of victims, and some secretly investigating whether there was any harm inside.

The entire up-down mechanism is very complete, with dedicated personnel in charge and one-to-one correspondence. An accountability system has also been launched. Although there may be loopholes in it, it can solve many problems on a large scale.

With such a mechanism and the initial solution to the food problem, although disasters continued every year in Dahan, there were no major fluctuations overall.

Wang Yi finished talking about Han's agricultural achievements in the past few years.

Then, at the Yuntai Hall of the Cabinet, Xun You, who also served as the Shaofu, stood up and talked about the financial and medical situation of the Han Dynasty this year.

Because there was no Ministry of Health in the Han Dynasty, and the medical vision was also barbaric. The imperial palace only had a 600-kilogram institution, the Imperial Medical Office. No one supervised the doctors, and no one was responsible for promoting medical and health services.

Therefore, Chen Mu re-established the Department of Health, which was still under the control of the Shaofu like the Imperial Medical Department. The word "health" comes from "Zhuangzi", which can be understood as "to prevent things from happening, to prevent them from happening."

The Department of Health was established to prevent the spread of diseases and viruses. The order of the Department of Health was the second rank, which was much higher than the rank of Taiyi Ling, the original highest medical officer of the Han Dynasty.

Although the Shaofu is in charge of finance, medical development cannot be separated from money, so being under the Shaofu will at least receive preferential treatment in annual funding approval.

Because Hua Tuo was used to wandering around in the wild and was more interested in the world of germs, he still studied medicine in Qingzhou.

Wu Pu, a disciple of Hua Tuo, is currently in charge of the Department of Health. He established hospitals and medical schools, standardized medical services, strengthened institutional reforms, trained doctors for the Han Dynasty, and made great contributions to establishing a complete medical and epidemic prevention system.

Wu Pu was only from the second rank and was not qualified to enter the palace, so Xun You made the report.

Xun You carefully talked about the financial situation of Dahan in the past few years, as well as local allocations, medical development, etc.

The current financial situation is very good. The currency currently issued is basically made of alloys, and the raw materials are less than those used in the five-baht currency in the past.

Minerals from Samhan Peninsula and Wonu Island were excavated and transported to Qingzhou, and gold, silver and copper were added.

Therefore, the financial situation of the imperial court is now very good.

Not to mention silver and copper.
To be continued...