The first month of the second year of Yanping in the Han Dynasty.
No matter you are rich or poor, you have to celebrate the New Year. Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty is no exception.
On the first day of the first lunar month, the emperor led his ministers to worship the great ancestor, Shizu Temple. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, they worshiped heaven and earth and prayed for a good harvest. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, they worshiped Yuntai. On the same day, the emperor issued an order to order Yang Biao and Lu Bu to stop their troops.
Join the imperial court and govern together.
All such political activities were carried out under the ministers headed by Fu Wan. As Yang Biao's strength weakened greatly, the Hongnong Yang family's control over Luoyang declined a lot, and they were unable to comprehensively control Liu Xie
Interference, and because Lü Bu was almost at the gate of the city, Yang Biao had no choice but to accept the mediation of Dong Cheng and others after the attack, saying that he could sit down with Lü Bu to discuss some follow-up governance issues and no longer march.
Fu Wan and others celebrated with each other, feeling like a new year, a new dynasty, and a new atmosphere.
Yang Biao was hit hard both physically and mentally. Before the New Year, he heard that he fell ill. Yang Xiu hurried back and took care of him day and night. Yang Xiu, who was originally a high-ranking government official like a noble son, also gradually realized the importance of life.
It was not easy for them, so they huddled together with Yang Biao in Hongnong County, whether they were comforting each other and licking their wounds, or whether they were accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity. It was unclear.
Lu Bu's army, well, it wasn't really a big army. Anyway, if it was not divided into auxiliaries and civilians, it could barely muster up to 10,000 people. It marched into Luoyang, met the emperor Liu Xie, and started a new journey.
Emperor Liu Xie ignored Yang Biao. He finally walked from behind the scenes to the stage. It took him four or five years to really take this step!
On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the emperor Liu Xie paraded his army at the top of Luoyang City. Of course, he was parading Lu Bu's army. Immediately afterwards, Liu Xie returned to the palace to accept the congratulations of hundreds of officials, and formally sat alone on the throne. His mood was so complicated that
It's similar to a daughter-in-law who has been married for many years becoming a mother-in-law. There are joys and worries.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the emperor held his first imperial meeting, and the focus of the discussions was mainly on how to calm the chaos in the world and return to the original order as soon as possible.
ZTE, these two words are very important in Liu Xie's heart, including his father, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty also managed to stay in power for a while, and he also wanted to pull the out-of-control carriage of the Han Dynasty back on the road.
came in, but unfortunately, he failed in the end.
Now, Liu Xie wants to pick up these two words again.
How can we complete the great cause of ZTE?
First of all, the government orders must be unified. As it is now, various counties and counties are doing their own affairs, and the situation where the imperial government cannot issue Henan Yin cannot be considered a ZTE. Therefore, in the face of the situation where the power of the princes in various counties and counties is large and small, and is unevenly distributed.
Next, what method can be used to pacify the world as soon as possible?
"Your Majesty! I only need five thousand cavalry to fly across the country! Put down the rebellion!" Lu Bu said with great dignity. "I will clean up the world for your Majesty and restore the world to the great man!" Lu Bu believed that Fu Wan and others only need to do a good job.
They don't need to worry about logistics and fighting. With five thousand cavalry and more than ten thousand auxiliary soldiers and civilians, they are a very powerful attacking corps. Coupled with their own martial arts, they are enough to fight in the north and south.
"Your Majesty, you can take small counties first, accumulate small victories, and gather troops to achieve a big victory. Based on the plan of a small minister, you can take Yanzhou and Qingzhou first..." Lu Bu was not just talking big words, he also had some calculations in his heart.
The plan is very simple and practical. In the name of His Majesty, he will attack the surrounding counties with relatively small strength, and then collect soldiers while accumulating strength, and then decide the outcome with the big princes...
"General Lu!" Fu Wan frowned and had to step in to interrupt Lu Bu's eloquent speech. Lu Bu's plan was completely based on inference under an ideal state, but the actual situation was obviously much more complicated. At present, the two Yuanmen divided the north and the south, and
Lu Bu planned to deal with these small counties first. Don't you know that these small counties are basically the tentacles extended by the two Yuans? If it really hurts the two Yuans, if they can't save them, they will join forces and kill them directly!
But the problem is that Lu Bu is the one who has just been found by his group, and he can't lose Lu Bu's face in person. It would be unsightly to create a estrangement, so Fu Wan considered it and said: "General Lu's strategy may or may not be good."
, However, the central government’s reserves are insufficient and there is not much food and grass, so it is really unbearable for a large-scale expedition..."
Lu Bu frowned, and there were three deep lines erected in the middle of his forehead. After looking at Fu, he hesitated, closed his mouth, and stepped back, trying not to speak.
After so many years, Lu Bu has learned more or less. Since Fu Wan said this, he will give Fu Wan some face. If the argument continues, both sides will not look good.
Yuan Shao was the enemy of the imperial court, and so was Yuan Shu. Apart from these two forces, the other forces were generally the ones the imperial court could unite with.
According to Lu Bu's original plan, he only needed to unite with Fei Qian to assemble a large number of cavalry troops, and then attack the Yanzhou and Qingzhou areas first to disrupt the battlefield. When one of the two Yuan forces showed a weakness, they could march straight in, just like
As if the sharp blade was pierced into the chest, he directly took the head of the general from among the thousands of troops, and then took the head of one of the two yuan!
At that time, as long as one of the two Yuans falls, the world will be shaken, and other surrounding forces that are ready to move will definitely stop. When the time comes, they will return to the army to deal with the remaining Yuan family, and the world will naturally be easily pacified. As long as Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu
Once these two sources of turmoil are eliminated, the great cause of ZTE can be completed within a few years.
However, Fu Wan believed that the most important thing now was not to raise troops immediately, but to adjust the land system and taxation first. Without money and food, it would be impossible to fight wars and pacify the world.
Last year, Heluo was hit by a disaster, and the autumn harvest field tax was greatly reduced. In addition, almost all taxes from local counties and counties were withheld, resulting in the court's money and grain being reduced to an extremely low value. In addition, the Heluo area was affected by the previous deaths of Dong Zhuo and Li Guo.
The reasons are leading to a massive loss of population, so it is necessary to take advantage of the current situation where there is still some spare capacity to resettle the refugees, organize production, and increase taxes to stabilize the people.
Fu Wan suggested that the soldiers and common people of Heluo could first learn from the neighboring countries and start farming in the north. By using farming, on the one hand, they could stabilize the political power, show the court's pursuit of peace, and eliminate their wary mentality. On the other hand, they could also
Re-opening and cultivating the barren land can not only avoid the difficulty of large-scale land reclamation and re-cultivation by small nobles, but also allow the court to directly control the land and obtain sufficient taxes, money and grain income, which is a good thing...
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Liu Xie heard this. Perhaps the financial embarrassment during his previous stay in Chang'an left a deep impression on him. Therefore, when Fu Wan finished explaining his strategy, Liu Xie thought for a moment and then approved the plan to promote Fu Wan.
For the time being, we are not going to conquer various places. We will first develop our own strength and reserve money and food.
Of course, Liu Xie did not forget to appease Lu Bu, saying that as long as Lu Bu trained his troops and horses, he would soon have the opportunity to go into battle to kill the enemy, and so on...
After the general direction of the strategy was decided, it was inevitable to continue to delve into some details. One of the things was related to General Fei Qian of the Conquest of the West, that is, the five-baht coin and the Conquest of the West Tongbao.
Originally, during the Western Han Dynasty, the three coin minting officials of Shanglinyuan, Zhong Guan, Bian Bing Ling, and Shu Ling, were responsible for casting the world's coins. The casting rights were once withdrawn, but later because the benefits of minting coins in various places were too great, so
In the end, when the imperial power was unstable, it was almost impossible to control private coinage. Even the royal bloodline and princes from all over the country took the lead in poaching the corners of the Han Dynasty. In the end, the state's power to mint money was lost...
There is a difference in value between copper coins and actual items. For example, the normal market price of a five-baht coin can be exchanged for a noodle cake, but in fact, the value of the metal itself used in a five-baht coin is not worth a noodle cake.
, then the difference is obtained by the caster.
This principle is basically understood by anyone who has played with minting coins. Therefore, when Zhengxi’s Tongbao appeared on the market, although everyone felt that this kind of Tongbao was better than the original hemp money and corn money, and even better than the ordinary five-dollar money.
Baht coins are three cents better, but this kind of thing has always been a matter of small profits but quick turnover. Although the profit of one coin is very small, if all the coins in the world use Zhengxi Tongbao, then the accumulation will be quite considerable.
And judging from the speed of circulation of Zhengxi Tongbao, ordinary people are still more willing to accept coins with better quality and more exquisite patterns. It is more convenient to keep or spend them.
If it weren't for the fact that inferior coins such as corn money and hemp money have been rejected by many merchants and people, perhaps bad coins will drive out good coins again.
When Fei was lurking and merging north, he used inflation to harvest a wave of wealth, and the wealthy nobles who had harvested their wealth were busy spending the low-quality coins in their hands. Some even did not hesitate to recover their losses.
Melting the original five-baht coins and minting a large number of worse coins again further aggravated the devaluation of the coins. The final result was that the surrounding coin order completely collapsed. Both the nobles and the common people who had suffered a loss refused to accept it anymore.
Poor-quality coins, even five-baht coins that were originally of good quality, have been implicated and are basically difficult to use.
Therefore, in the Heluo area, people would rather barter than accept inferior coins. Those inferior coins are just like the banknotes that have lost national credibility in later generations. They are worse than waste paper. This has led to the gradual disappearance of inferior coins.
Market, the market in Heluo area was once cut off from the circulation of coins.
Now that the imperial court is going to re-establish the tax system, the issue of rebuilding the order of coins, whether to use Feiqian's Zhengxi Tongbao or the original five baht coins, has become the focus of the debate.
On the one hand, some people say that Luoyang originally had furnaces and craftsmen to cast coins in the city, and all it needed was an edict to abolish the Zhengxi Tongbao and recast the five-baht coins.
On the other hand, some people suggested that since the people are willing to accept new money and are unwilling to accept five baht, let Zhengxi pay tribute to a set of craftsmen and equipment for casting Tongbao. Since no one wants the original bad money, they can simply melt it and cast it again.
New Tongbao.
Some people said that even if the coinage from Zhengxi was collected, princes from other regions would also mint money, so they could not prohibit it at all. Instead, they would offend Fei Qian, the general of Zhengxi, and snub the hearts of good ministers.
Then some people said that the coins minted in Zhengxi were not approved by His Majesty. Where did the good ministers come from? Even if there were, I'm afraid there would be some discounts...
Seeing that the building was gradually tilting, Liu Xie quickly stopped discussing the issue and said that he would put it on hold until new solutions were found.
Finally, there is the issue of soldiers.
The original military system of the Han Dynasty was inherited from the Qin system. The emperor was the supreme military commander, and there were two major military agencies to control the entire army. One was the capital security agency composed of Guang Luxun, Wei Wei, and Zhi Jinwu;
The highest military administrative organization composed of generals at all levels. The country's army is composed of three parts, the capital army, the prefecture army and the border army.
The capital army includes the Huben Army, the Yulin Army, the Southern Army and the Northern Army. The Northern Army usually guards the capital, and some or all of it goes out with the general during expeditions. The county soldiers maintain local security in peacetime, and are dispatched by the court in wartime. The county soldiers are recruited.
If you need the emperor's "tiger talisman", you can temporarily recruit it from the county when the war is tense.
The border army garrisoned the border counties, and the governors of each border county were under the command of the state minister Shi.
But now the capital army is basically gone. The border army, the northwest army, that is, General Fei Qian, who conquers the west, is the only one, and then the soldiers from various counties and counties do their own thing.
Let Fei Qian lead troops to the capital. Many people think that Dong Zhuo and Li Guo are coming again as soon as they think of this matter, so they are absolutely unacceptable. But now, even if these soldiers of Lu Bu are counted as the capital's army, it is not enough.
To compete with the soldiers from various counties, but do we need to recruit a large number of soldiers and expand the army...
Where does money and food come from?
Everyone found themselves embarrassed and had to go back to the original question...
Liu Xie sat on the throne, looking left and right. After more than two hours, the officials were arguing with each other and talking to each other. Now he has gradually lost the original intention of sitting on the throne.
A feeling of excitement and fatigue rose from my heart and spread throughout my body.
"Is this kind of court what my father has experienced before?" After all, Liu Xie was young and his energy could not be compared with that of adults. He didn't know when he started to get distracted and looked at the top of the hall in a daze, "If father is still here
, such a situation... no, what should Emperor Guangwu do when faced with such a situation? "
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!" After finishing the memorial, he found that Liu Xie was in a daze and couldn't help but raise his voice, "I wonder what your Majesty's intention is?"
"Ah?" Liu Xie was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously replied, "Then just follow Aiqing's instructions..."
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Liu Xie realized something was wrong.
There is no way, this is a habit that has been developed since Dong Zhuo's time. Anyway, at that time, he was basically a puppet. Dong Zhuo or Li Guo said whatever he said. Liu Xie himself said this most skillfully at the court meeting.
The words were spoken. Now that I was distracted, I subconsciously blurted out the words.
What did Fu Wan just say?
It's over, do you want to say that what you said during the first court meeting does not count?
Liu Xie suppressed his face and turned red. He stared anxiously at Xiao Huangmen next to him. Xiao Huangmen was excited and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is not feeling well. Today's meeting will be suspended! Relevant matters will be discussed tomorrow! Retreat from the court!"
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"this!"
"well……"
"Farewell Your Majesty!" All the officials were helpless, but Liu Xie wanted to leave and it was hard for everyone to stop them, so they had to bow together and adjourn the meeting for the time being...
Lu Bu frowned, lowered his head, and watched Liu Xie get off the throne and enter the back hall with the corner of his eye. He then shook his sleeves and left the main hall without saying hello to Fu Wan and others.
In Luoyang in the first month of the year, the sky was still clear, but when Lu Bu stood outside the main hall, he felt that the sky was somewhat hazy...
