(The new book has been quietly opened for three days)

When Yang Xiu's initial diplomatic achievements were reported back to the Central Plains, it was already the turn of spring and summer in 219, after all, it was 15,000 miles away from Luoyang.

It was already early 220 years since Yang Xiu returned to China and went to Luoyang to report to Liu Bei.

In the Han Dynasty, there was nothing worth writing about this year. Liu Bei only ended his two-year tour at the end of 218 and returned to Luoyang. It was very quiet throughout the year and never left the house. In addition to daily government affairs, it was mainly to promote the currency reform proposed by Li Su during the tour.

By the beginning of 220, the resistance to currency reform and gold control was basically suppressed. The rest were gradual physical work, which took a long time to make the people of the Han Dynasty accustomed to accepting the gold regulation of the court, and the people only exchanged silver and copper coins freely.

The silver produced in Fusang Shishi is also imported into the Central Plains at a rate of more than 20 tons per year. In addition, Sado Jinshan also has several tons of companion silver per year, which totals about 30 tons per year.

It is equivalent to more than one million taels per year in the Han system, worth more than one billion copper coins.

When no overseas copper mines were discovered in the Han Dynasty, the total amount of copper coins in Huanling was only 20 to 30 billion yuan.

During the decades when Liu Bei was in power, he upgraded some technology and increased the mining efforts of domestic copper mines that were originally difficult to mine. Every year, there were several hundred million yuan and ten or twenty billion yuan.

However, that kind of coins did not cause an increase in the money supply and inflation prices to rise, because the speed of productivity development and the abundance of materials during the same period definitely exceeded the growth rate of coins supply. Even in those years, Liu Bei had to rely on issuing war treasury bonds and other means to actually issue credit currency to alleviate the money shortage.

Now that so many years have passed, the surviving copper coins on the Dahan market have exceeded 50 billion yuan, which is equivalent to the "m1 currency" of this country.

There is more than one billion yuan of silver input every year, and it has been lost for more than five years, with a total silver stock of 6 billion yuan. Such a monetary structure is of course very healthy, and the copper-silver price ratio has been maintained very well, making the transition of the Han Dynasty's monetary system more stable, and the court's finances have also become extremely prosperous.

It was in such a social atmosphere that after Yang Xiu returned to China, he reported his gains in full to Liu Bei, and suggested that Liu Bei speed up his military use in the northwest to cash in on the reputation and territory he gained after peacekeeping negotiations with Parthia and the Romans.

The Han Dynasty completely conquered the Duchy of Shache and Hualazimo by force, and transformed Kangju from a ban system to a county system.

In addition to Yang Xiu's strong suggestion, the deputy envoy Ma Dai also suggested that, and Ma Chao, who was stationed in the Western Region, also made a statement.

However, Liu Bei weighed the pros and cons, thinking that the food should be eaten at a bite. And just after talking with the Parthians, he took the benefits directly, which also made it seem that the "maintaining international order" before the Han Dynasty was a bit hypocritical and did not conform to the character of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, Liu Bei was by no means "slapping the fat man in the face" or "abandoning real profit for the sake of good reputation."

He just felt that things were priorities and could pretend that they were not so urgent. He slowed down for two years and temporarily bet the court's military potential in the northeast. After attacking Mobei from the northeast and completely eliminating the Xianbei and Dingling people in Mobei, it would not be too late to free up the Northwest to solve the Northwest, so as not to use the people too much.

Anyway, the Han Dynasty was very stable, and there was nothing to be urgent about in the booming period of national fortunes.

Moreover, based on the information sent back by Yang Xiu, after analyzing the other officials, he believed that the Parthians would definitely have a more difficult situation in the next few years, and they might have to rely more on the Han Dynasty. It would not be too late to use troops at that time.

Yang Xiu and Ma Dai could only give up for the time being, while Ma Chao was there to train soldiers, and he was looking for young people to train new soldiers again with the old.

The veterans of the cavalry who followed him to fight against the Qiang people back then were now at least in their forties, and even many were fifty or sixty years old.

Now Liu Bei has to delay. When the Han Dynasty uses troops to the Western Regions again, it is inevitable that the soldiers generally rely on the new generation. In addition to being promoted to officers, the soldiers who have become officers are older, more experienced and capable, and the front-line soldiers are no longer able to do it.

According to Liu Bei's previous plan, Zhou Yu began to allocate funds to build ships in 219, and Zhao Yun was allocated more resources to open up and settle the land in the Heijiang Basin in summer, and secretly accumulate food on the front line. This process took a total of two to three years.

Therefore, the final use of military forces against the Xianbei in Mobei should start from 221 to 222. If the war is still unsuccessful, and the court will have to rest for at least one year after a war, and when Ma Chao can use military forces in the northwest in an all-round way, it will not be delayed until at least 224 years.

However, it was also considered that God blessed the Han Dynasty later. Because in 224 years in history, the founding monarch of the Sassanian tribe of the Persian tribe rebelled and destroyed the sect leader, Parthia, and established his own empire. So when Ma Chao advanced westward, it happened to catch up with the chaos and the chaos, and the external environment where the Han Dynasty wanted to make profits in chaos became extremely superior.

Of course these are all later stories.

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The wheel of history soon entered 221 years, and Zhou Yu and Zhao Yun were almost ready. They only waited for the end of spring plowing this year and entered early summer to start military operations.

Within the Luoyang court, Li Su steadily suggested that Liu Bei take advantage of his energy to fully utilize the prestige of the founding monarch, and then promote some iron-fisted reforms, so as to leave the problems to future generations as little as possible.

The previous currency reform was completely over 221. According to Li Su, Liu Ba and others' previous years of operational experience, and even the keen sense of the ministers in the court, everyone knows:

After the reform of money is implemented, the Prime Minister will definitely strike while the iron is hot, and suggest that Your Majesty sublimate the reform of the personnel, or the selection of officials and assessment system.

This time, it was no exception. The only difference was that the center right push Liuba did not see all this alive. He was old and died of illness in the spring of the following year after the imperial court implemented the monetary reform.

Similarly, there are several important officials in the court who passed away in the past few years, including Fazheng, who has always had a poor living habit. Fazheng died of illness in history, probably the same kind of tossing as Guo Jia, so the butterfly effect does not affect Fazheng's lifespan. When the year of death comes, it will be true.

After Fa Zheng Liu Ba passed away, the vacancy left was replaced by Zhuge Jin and Pang Tong. Zhuge Jin promoted him and released him, and Xu Shu was then allowed to fill in the pit.

However, Lu Su, the important officials who died in history who were infected by the plague during the Cao Sun war, are still alive because there is no large-scale war plague. After all, by 221, Lu Su was not yet fifty years old and was not old.

I won't go into details about these personnel changes for the time being. Anyway, no one who rises to power will not affect the advancement of the new reforms.

The main content of this new personnel reform is undoubtedly aimed at the imperial examination system - the imperial examination system has been implemented for a full twenty-five years.

In the past twenty-five years, in order to connect the imperial examination with the previous recommendation system and avoid the fluctuations and changes in the power to select officials too violently and arouse resistance, the imperial examination has not grown into the complete body that Li Su imagined, and there are still many compromises left.

Now, the preparation period is long enough. In twenty-five years, the officials elected from the imperial examination have also reached high positions. This is a whole generation that has passed.

For example, the most promising new generation officials who have reached the level of the Minister of the Court (Personnel) in the court, Jiang Wan, Fei Yi, Yang Yi, Dong Yun, Sun Zi, Jia Kui, Bu Zhi, Ma Liang... These are all from the imperial examination.

With this group of human backbone who highly recognizes the superiority of the imperial examination, of course it is time to go a step further.

This year, Li Su announced these reform opinions for everyone to discuss:

First of all, after the "juren" of the imperial examination was born, he no longer "admissions in different states", but "national unified examinations" - the way of the juren. Li Su still did not dare to act too ruthlessly, and still delegated power to the local government, giving the governors and county magistrates some room for operation.

However, if the person you selected does not have good grades, the juren from a certain state may be wiped out in the future, and no one of them will be allowed to pass the exam in the end.

When implementing this article, Li Su was not worried about the problem of "admissions without distinction between the north and south levels will lead to bloodbathing in areas with backward education." Because the situation he faced was completely different from that of Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang had an excuse at that time. The north was damaged by the Yuan Dynasty because of years of war and years of destruction, so he had to give them the opportunity to make progress. The Han Dynasty has been completely peaceful for twenty years, and the literary style is everywhere.

If you want to take care of it, it is not the difference between the north and the south, but the difference between the east and the west. The Kanto region was nearly ten years shorter than that of Kansai. However, Kanto was originally mostly plains and had a superior and rich geographical environment. After twenty years of peaceful farming, it has been reviewed and reviewed.

In terms of differences between the north and the south, the south is developing faster now, but the foundation in the south is also worse, so there is no need to worry that the south will do better than the north.

In the final result, Li Su just drew on the old law of filial piety and honesty in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and added admissions to "remote border defense areas", but the north and west rankings were absolutely not separated.

After the national unified examination was completely opened up, all poor students praised His Majesty's wiseness and wise prime ministers, and pointed out a way out for academic masters who had no problem and had no choice but to study. The probability of their inconsistent blocking the way by the powerful cannot be said to have dropped to zero, at least it has been reduced by more than half.

Li Su continued to strike while the iron was hot, and on the basis of "national unified admission", he further implemented the "important examination papers and absent the name system" so that the examiner could not see who the examiner answered the test papers in the future.

Of course, you can still see it by looking at the handwriting, but there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot change it too hard at once. You must also take into account the costs at the same time to prevent the complex operation of "building a bunch of supervisory agencies to supervise and supervise agencies".

Being able to paste the name first and proceed step by step is already an improvement.

In addition to the above two points, Li Su also had other small optimizations and adjustments to the imperial examination, which were regarded as good governance by poor families, and those who resisted did not dare to speak out. The chain of interests that aristocratic families had privately assigned to the official positions, and at this point they were basically boiled to death by Li Su Wen's frogs.

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After striving for internal affairs and winning two major reforms in succession, the Han Dynasty's foreign military operations finally kicked off.

As Zhao Yun took the cavalry stationed in the Northeast for many years to go on a wartime state, the country once again entered a state of wartime control, the court's mobilization and dispatching ability was once again tense, and inappropriate internal resistance and objections were suppressed.

Even those who had ideas about Li Su's further deepening of the imperial examination reform before would not dare to stand up at this time.

Because they knew that whenever Zhao Yun was using troops, Liu Bei could definitely find a reasonable excuse to kill them directly to maintain the stability of the wartime period.

In this way, it was equivalent to the time when Li Su was reforming, these people had already tied up their hands before they could object.

On Zhao Yun's side, he brought 50,000 elite cavalry, including 10,000 iron-armored cavalry, and took land from the Liaohe River Basin to the Nenjiang River Basin, a tributary of Heijiang, and then headed northward, heading straight to the Daxianbei Mountains and the Hulunbuir Grassland on the north side.

Zhou Yu led the sea fleet to provide Zhao Yun with logistics supplies - the cavalry still did not march through water, because it was a bit difficult to transport war horses on sea ships. But the cavalry did not need a ship, and the ship was just to transport food to the cavalry.

Zhao Yun sent troops in May, and in July, he fought a war with the remaining Goguryeo people on the Hulunbuir grassland. The Goguryeo people really didn't expect the Han army to detour so far. They were not worried about logistics supplies, so they were completely beaten to pieces, completely losing the grassland and plain reclamation area north of the Great Xianbei Mountains.

Only tens of thousands of people were left to escape into the Daxianbei mountain area, completely became a fishing and hunting wild people, and gave up their farming lifestyle. Because they escaped into the mountains, it took Zhao Yun a long time to completely search and suppress them, so he could only slowly take it. However, as the establishment of a civilized country, Goguryeo completely disappeared.

Zhao Yun spent the whole summer and autumn to solve the Goguryeo problem, and also went deep into the Hulunbuir grassland and cleaned up several small tribes that the Xianbei and Dingling people had.

However, as the weather became colder and because it was impossible to stay in the northeast for winter all year round, Zhao Yun could only temporarily withdraw his main force and only asked the soldiers to work and log wood before the winter came, built several wooden Kremlin-type fortresses, and then transported Zhou Yu's remaining food into the fortress to stock up for use in case the army arrives here again next year.

Zhao Yun's 50,000 people were left to guard these fortresses, and there were also a large number of crossbows, gunpowder, swarms, muskets, and firearms, chopping enough firewood for heating.

The main force had more than 40,000 people, who returned south in October of the lunar calendar and headed north again in early April of the following year, avoiding the power of General Winter by "not spending the winter in Hulunbuir".

Zhao Yun had actually alarmed the Xianbei and Ding Ling in Mobei, but they had no choice. After Zhao Yun's main force retreated, the Xianbei people tried to take advantage of the winter to kill the granary guarding fortress troops left by Zhao Yun, and snatch or burn the Han army's reserve materials.

But the final result was undoubtedly the Xianbei people failed to fight to the death and even left behind at least 10,000 or 20,000 corpses in vain.

The Han people's storm guns have been improved again. Although this gunpowder weapon still uses thick and solid bamboo tubes to set off gunpowder projectiles, the form of the projectile has changed from a single lead bullet to a tightened lead bullet, and a large handful of iron sand is stuffed behind it.

To put it bluntly, although the Han people's storm guns are still poor in durability, they will be scrapped at most three or five guns, otherwise they will explode. However, their firepower is already very powerful. Even if they don't aim, they can always capture a few enemies within thirty or fifty steps, because it is a shotgun at all.

The emergence of this new type of musket also led to the complete elimination of a weapon in the Han army that had been used for more than 20 years, that is, the Zhuge Crossbow invented by Zhuge Liang.

The positioning of the crossbow was originally a intensive killing of short-range targets within thirty or fifty steps, and it was most convenient to use it to guard the city wall.

After the shotgun musket appears, it also has a high kill density and a close effective range, which coincides with the crossbow.

However, the Divine Arm Crossbow, represented by long-range killing, still has a strong position in the military. Because the firearms of this era cannot improve the accuracy no matter how hard they are used, the Divine Arm Crossbow is irreplaceable.

Therefore, due to poor information, the Xianbei people were bleeding again and did not rest for the whole winter. Not only did they die, but their morale continued to be consumed.

In early summer of 222, when Zhao Yun's main force arrived again, what awaited them was the absolute destruction. In May and July, two consecutive comprehensive victories were won, Zhao Yun beheaded and killed tens of thousands of people, and captured more than 100,000 civilians.

The last Xianbei and Dingling people in the Mobei region thought of the ultimate strategy of saving their lives was to completely give up the Hulunbuir grassland, and even give up the wolf Juxu, choosing to run westward and try to use their logistics to drag down Zhao Yun.

However, they underestimated the logistics of Zhou Yu's journey to the Heijiang water system. For the Han army, it was okay to stretch the front one or two thousand miles away from Hulunbuir. Zhao Yun could not starve to death.

During the big step back, the Xianbei people lost more grasslands with plump water and grass, which also led to many elderly people losing their troops because they could not keep up with the migration. In the end, they fled to the shore of Lake Baikal, but they still could not escape the fate of being completely wiped out by Zhao Yun.

In August 222, Zhao Yun killed the new Xianbei Khan Che Gulu on the shore of Lake Baikal. This man was originally a general under Tuoba Liwei, but the Tuoba family could no longer control the place when they arrived in Mobei, so Che Gulu became a Khan himself. Among the Xianbei people who had no orthodox faith, it is not surprising that big fists are the hard truth.

In the winter of this year, the history of the existence of Xianbei and Dingling as two independent regimes in Mobei ended here. Even if they were killed by Khans on the shore of Lake Baikal, there was no need to seal the wolf Juxu. After all, the wolf Juxu is hundreds of miles south of Lake Baikal.

Zhao Yun rushed back in the cold winter and the snow. On the contrary, the number of people who were frozen to death on the road was even greater than the previous battle, which was a helpless thing, because the environment in that place was too harsh.

Although the northern desert was completely conquered, the environment here also allowed the Han people to set up a tone for the local rule: they could only let the local savages manage their own animal husbandry and forestry. The Han people could only establish some small commercial strongholds, and then do business in summer, and take Heijiang waterway to trade with each other. They would return south in winter, and would never live in the local area for more than a year.

These are all later stories.

After Zhao Yun returned to the army, he left most of the troops in Liucheng, Chifeng, Liaodong and other counties. He brought thousands of people back to Beijing to report his orders. Of course, Liu Bei also left the city for dozens of miles, went to the shore of Luoshui to welcome Zhao Yun across the river, and added several counties to him.

As for Li Su and other civil and military officials who provided suggestions and strategies, they also rewarded them. Li Su also added the county, and Zhou Yu, like Gan Ning, was granted the highest number of households in the three counties.

Zhou Yu, a surrendered general, was finally able to be granted the title of county marquis with a maximum number of vassals, which was considered very virtuous. Who could have thought of participating in the final decisive battle to destroy the nomad in the north of Mo.
Chapter completed!