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Chapter 195 The New Jin Kingdom (3)

"The foreign minister, the Minister of the Han Dynasty, and the Grand Sima Mansion is engaged in Du Zhen, and he will pay homage to His Majesty the State of Wu."

"Hehe, thank you for your hard work in the Shu Dynasty's envoys. Hum? Are both envoys from Yizhou?"

"Your Majesty asked about it. The foreign minister, The Eagle, is from Fufeng County, Yongzhou. However, it has grown in Yizhou since the birth of the foreign minister, so it is not surprising that the accent of Yizhou is not surprising."

"The foreign minister Du Zhen is from Chengdu, Shu County."

"Hahahaha~~~Okay, Wu and Shu have been in diplomatic relations for more than 40 years, but two native Yizhou people can be used as envoys. This is really the first time!"

Well, brother, you are so publicly mocking me for the struggle between the Han faction. It is really hard for us to express anything besides laughing.

"Two envoys, did you see the envoys of Jin when you went to the hall just now?"

Of course, you saw it, you did it on purpose: "Report to Your Majesty, I saw it."

"Hey, Jin State is still very polite. A general and a yellow-sect minister are really powerful."

"Haha, Your Majesty." At this time, the The Legend of the Condor Heroes said: "If the enemy wants to be vain and slander, we really need to make enough effort in terms of face. And the two allies visit each other's houses. Shouldn't they be treated with good wine and meat when they come?"

"Hahahaha~~Shooting the Book of Zhongshu is very interesting. So, when you come here, will your country and the Grand Marshal have anything to say to me?"

"It's nothing. It's just a normal visit between allies."

"Hmph! The envoy said this is untrue. Two years ago, when your country was facing the disaster of national destruction, our country launched a national force. In Jingzhou and Yangzhou launched a full-scale attack on the puppet Wei. If we had not restrained the puppet Wei's 200,000 to 300,000 troops, the puppet Wei could have increased more than 100,000 troops to attack your country. At that time, even if the Grand Sima of your country was capable, he could not stop it! It can be said that our country has made intermittent contributions to your country. What about your country? Before the Yang'anguan War began, he was busy increasing troops to Badong County. Your country's actions really made our country, as an ally, feel heartbroken!"

"Hahaha, Your Majesty, to be honest. Our country's increase in troops to Badong the year before yesterday is essentially the same as your country's money to Nanzhong in recent years. There is nothing to be serious about."

In fact, although the Han-Wu alliance was generally friendly, the struggle between them was not bad at all. Eastern Wu often sent money and food to some tribes in the southern middle of Shu Han, and even sent military instructors to train the young and strong tribes of these tribes. Then they encouraged them to launch rebellions and waste the national strength of Shu Han. Of course, if you say that there is no trace of Shu Han in various rebellions in Jiaozhou of Dongwu, it is probably impossible.

"Hmph, it's important to be smart and not inferior to Zong Deyan."

"Thank you for your praise."

The rest is gone. Because the rulers of both sides are not fools, they both know the necessity of the Han-Wu alliance to continue. So the Legend of the Condor Heroes and Du Zhen’s trip to Dongwu was just to express the importance of Shu Han’s attention to this alliance - who made Shu Han’s current comprehensive national strength still the weakest among the Three Kingdoms?

On the other side, another interview was also underway in the Chengdu court.

"The Grand Sima Shibao of the Great Jin Dynasty and the Minister of the Attorney Xu, pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty."

It can be said that because the Sima family hastily risen, there are loud dissatisfactions at the bottom, and there are many problems that need to be solved urgently within. Therefore, the newly born Jin State urgently needs time to recuperate. Therefore, this time, the envoy from Jin State visited Shu Han to lower his attitude: for the first time, it was publicly recognized that the regime in Yizhou was Han and not Shu.

Guan Yi, who was standing at the bottom left of Liu Chan, looked at Shi Bao in the center of the hall and almost couldn't help but laugh: Hey, if this master hadn't sold his 20,000 pair of armor for everything, it would be hard to say what the Xindu War could have become.

"I have worked hard for the messenger from afar. I don't know what the new emperor of Jin wants to say to me?"

"Your Majesty, my emperor follows the will of heaven and begged by thousands of subjects to ascend the throne on behalf of Wei. Now that the Great Jin has been established, there is no reason for the war between the Han and Wei in the past to continue. Therefore, my emperor proposes that the two sides form an alliance and stop the war and stop the troops."

"This matter has been concluded in our country, but is there anything else that the messenger wants to say?"

"Your Majesty, my emperor also said that if Your Majesty has the idea of ​​taking it back to Jingzhou, I am willing to support you with all my strength!"

"Ah? Hahahaha~~~Da Sima, what do you think about this?"

"Haha, so that your envoy knows that even if we want to get Jingzhou, we don't need your country's help."

In short, I only admit that I will sign an armistice agreement with you, but I will not sign a covenant at the level of the military alliance. Anyway, the current situation is obvious: everyone needs time to sort out some domestic things. So now everyone doesn’t want to fight. But when anyone completes the adjustment first, it will be a fight!

...

As the envoys from Jin, Shu Han and other countries ran back and forth, a brief peace was finally ushered in between the Han, Jin and Wu. Guan Yi and Sun Hao had more time and stronger determination to deal with some of the stubborn diseases and problems in their country. Sima Yan finally had time to clean up the mess left by his father - no, it was the mess he made himself.

The Jin Empire is undoubtedly the strongest in the Three Kingdoms, but it is also the one with the most problems.

It is right to say that he is a new empire, after all, it has only been more than a month since its founding. But it is also right to say that he is an old, corrupt zombie with a stinking smell all over his body. Because of the Zen period of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, although the Sima family destroyed many tribes of people during this process. However, this number of people is still too few than the sacrifices needed for a dynasty's reform.

He almost accepted all the aristocratic families of Cao Wei, and because of the need to usurp the throne, he had to indulge some aristocratic families, and at the same time cultivated some aristocratic families. He also indulged his relatives without any constraints. Therefore, when in October 265, all the autumn grains on the huge land were put into storage and various taxes were counted, the Shangshu Ling Pei Xiu gave Sima Yan an extremely tragic data.

"Your Majesty, the autumn harvest in the first year of Taishi has ended. For this autumn harvest, the imperial court has accumulated a total of 25.2 million stones of grain and 15.8 billion yuan."

It sounds like a lot, right? This income is more than ten times that of Fei Yi of Shu Han in power. Unfortunately, the Jin Empire was great, with a lot of income and a lot of expenditure.

"After deducting various salaries and expenses and calculating various losses, the actual warehousing was 6.3 million stones of grain and 3.5 billion yuan. Adding to last year's surplus, the current treasury is 11.6 million stones of grain and 8.3 billion yuan in the treasury."

"This, Shangshu Ling, what's going on? Why is this so?"

"Your Majesty, it is mainly because the country has been newly established this year and will give a large amount of reward to the ministers."

In fact, Pei Xiu didn't say anything: More than thirty princes have newly enthroned, nearly fifty county lords, and there are also monsters like county lords... This expense is so exciting!

Sima Yan is not a fool, of course he understood what Pei Xiu said: "So, how many household registrations are there in my Jin Dynasty? How many fields are there?"

"In the first year of Taishi, my Jin Dynasty, the household registration was 4.2 million, and the land was 12.2 million. The land was 1.2 million. On average, each person had 30 mu of land. However, your Majesty, this year, the princes were mainly the princes, and the princes had just founded the country. Therefore, the households on their fiefdoms still belong to the country this year. The output also belongs to the country. Next year, there is probably not so much."

"Ah? Then Shangshu Ling, do your calculations for me. How much income will we have next year?"

"It is calculated based on the fact that all the fiefs of the existing princes, princes, county dukes and county marquis are not taxed. The population who pays taxes to the court next year will be reduced to 3.35 million, and the land in the residence will be reduced to about 90 million mu. As for this income, it is only about 18 million stones of grain and 10 billion yuan. Next year we will start paying salaries to newly enfeoffed princes, princes, county dukes and others. Therefore, next year, it is estimated that the surplus of the court will not exceed 3 million stones of grain and 1.5 billion yuan."

(Guan Yi: I'm so laughing. For such a big family, I probably don't have as much surplus as I do in the end of the year!)

"This, this is wrong! Ji Yan. Although I have granted many new titles, dukes, and marquises, I have also taken back all the fiefs of county marquis, township marquis, and marquises that Cao Wei had previously awarded. Why is there so much difference between entering and exiting?"
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