As the New Year approaches, Liu Che's life becomes extremely busy.
The backlog of official documents and memorials even filled up the entire case.
Usually, before the old ones are disposed of, the new ones are piled up more than a foot high.
Fortunately, the official documents and memorials of the Han Dynasty have now been turned into blank sheets of paper. Otherwise, Liu Che may have broken the record set by Qin Shihuang - reviewing hundreds of kilograms of memorials in one day!
This is the result of hundreds of ministers and ministers in Lantai helping to filter it out.
Those matters that did not require Liu Che's personal attention or had insufficient priority had already been dealt with in Lantai.
What can come before Liu Che must be something that affects at least one county or is sensitive.
After stretching, Liu Che looked helplessly at the pile of memorials in front of him and sighed.
But there is no way, these things cannot be done by others.
Just like the report he just finished reviewing - Xiapi County requested to build a ditch in the county to divert Si water to irrigate farmland.
Others simply do not have the qualifications and ability to decide on this kind of matter.
He, the emperor, must make the decision.
The ruling made by Liu Che was also very simple - he forwarded this memorial to the Prime Minister's Office and Da Nong, and asked the Prime Minister's Office and Da Nong to take the lead in sending a joint working group to Xiapi for on-the-spot inspection, and invited local gentry, industry and commerce, and finally
Send another relevant report to him, the emperor.
To put it simply, it is to conduct engineering demonstration first.
Let’s take a look and see if Xia Pi County meets the conditions for building such a channel.
Then we also have to look at the costs and fees.
Only then can we decide whether to build this channel in the end.
This is also a more scientific approach and can avoid wasting resources to the greatest extent.
Looking at the pile of memorials in front of him, Liu Che stood up and planned to go out for a walk and stretch his muscles.
As for these things - if you have too many lice, you won't have to worry about your debts.
There is still half a month before the big court meeting on Zhengdan, so we can still deal with it slowly.
If that doesn't work, you can also leave the less important matters directly to Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and Imperial Censor Chao Cuo.
In short, it is a dream to expect Liu Che to imitate Qin Shihuang and eventually die from overwork!
As soon as he walked out of the palace gate, a minister came to report: "Your Majesty, the Tingwei has just come to report that all the members of the Wuyan clan have been taken into custody. Please tell me..."
When Liu Che heard this, he pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Tell Ting Wei that we must enforce the law impartially, eliminate all interference, and restore justice to the world!"
Wu Yan, the top loan shark who once dominated Chang'an and shocked the world, and the most successful private financier before the Christian era, finally came to the end of his life.
There is no way, the emperor wants him to die, can he still live?
What's more, there is a bunch of cocks under Wuyan's butt, and there is no need to accuse him at all. As long as the ruler wants to, he will not survive, and he will definitely die miserably!
While Tingwei was hunting rabbits, in the process of dealing with the Wuyan family, he also took down several other wealthy merchant families who were also engaged in loan sharking.
For a time, the entire Huai City and Huajie and Liuxiang were in a state of chaos.
Many famous caves at home and abroad have basically been closed down by the government.
Within a month, the once-blooming Flower Street and Willow Alley suddenly declined.
The gentlemen were mourning the loss of their heirs, and the scholar-bureaucrats were crying and crying, almost like a quick case broadcast.
However, it doesn't matter, Liu Che believes that by next spring, there will naturally be a successor to continue the business of Huajieliuxiang.
But this time, taking down the Wuyan clan and related Ziqian merchants really made Liu Che feel full!
A total of more than tens of millions of wealth was added to the treasury, which was already running low. Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and Imperial Censor Chao Cuo both said: Your Majesty Fu Wei can do great things.
Then, they happily took the money to do some things they had wanted to do for a long time.
For example, Zhou Yafu announced with a wave of his hand that a track from Jiangxian to Luoyang would be built.
Well, after all, Zhou Yafu is not a proletarian revolutionary, and his ideological level is not high. He has a strong attachment to his hometown. He becomes prime minister and does not benefit his hometown? What a shame!
Especially when the elders from my hometown organized a group to come to Chang'an and wrote letters in blood to plead again and again.
Zhou Yafu couldn't resist it at all.
As for Chao Cuo, he immediately waved his banknotes and began to massively expand the staff of Tingwei and Yushi Dafu Yamen.
First of all, the number of censors who hold books has suddenly expanded from twenty to thirty-six, and the number of adjutants in each department of the court has also increased by two or three.
Fa Jia smiled so hard that he couldn't even close his mouth.
More officials and more establishments mean greater authority and stronger execution.
Of course, it also means that the bureaucracy is further bloated.
Fortunately, at least for the next thirty years, the Han Dynasty will not need to worry about overpopulation.
At present, if yamen at all levels really want to do something, they will only be short of people.
The collapse of these Zi Qian merchants allowed Liu Che to take the opportunity to regain his reputation and win over a wave of people's hearts - he asked Ting Wei to learn from the practices of later generations and take away all the various IOUs that were seized from Zi Qian merchants' homes.
When I came out, I burned everything in the direct market of Chang'an.
The whole Guanzhong was instantly grateful.
Even the local ruffians are now bathed in the Emperor's favor.
As for the Ziqian merchants headed by Wu Yan, they undoubtedly became the biggest losers this time.
But who cares about them?
Of course, Liu Che knew very well that if a Wuyan clan was killed, there would definitely be a Youyan clan and a Kongyan clan in the future to continue the Wuyan clan's career. This is how history is, with a continuous upward spiral.
However, for the time being, the influence of Ziqian merchants in Chang'an and Guanzhong has been wiped out.
This will help Liu Che start the financial industry on his own.
And during these two months, another major event also happened.
According to the intelligence, the Huns returning to the north immediately summoned the tribal leaders and nobles after returning to Langjuxu Mountain. Then, at this meeting, the newly promoted Chanyu of Gulihu
, announced his three policies.
First, he named his cousin Hu Lushe, King of Xiongnu Zuo Guli, as Zuoxian King, and swore to the Tianmeng that after his death, he would not pass the throne to his heirs, and Hu Lushe would be the next Shanyu.
And he announced that he would not marry and have children.
He will dedicate his life and everything to the Huns.
With this move of Gulihu Shanyu, you instantly stabilized the hearts of the people, and you reconciled the crumbling and divided tribes of the Northern Huns.
This really disappointed Liu Che and the Han Dynasty officials.
Didn’t the Huns fight among themselves?
This unscientific!
Fortunately, Liu Che had experience in his previous life. He knew that at present, it was almost impossible to make the Huns bow their heads and surrender through these few wars.
Because, although the Xiongnu was hurt from being beaten.
However, there is still hope, and there are blood bags.
The thirty-six countries in the Western Region, and even the wider Central and South Asia, can provide it with a steady stream of blood transfusions.
Therefore, in fact, even if there is no Juli Lake, Hu Lushe may still bear similar responsibilities.
This has been common in the history of nomadic peoples for thousands of years.
The only way to completely eliminate a nomad or bring it to its knees is to go deep into the desert and attack their pastures and tribes, causing them to continuously lose blood and unable to find a place to replenish their blood.
Historically, during the Zhaoxuan period, the Huns surrendered because the Han army entered the Western Regions, united with Wusun, and drove out the Xiongnu forces.
The Huns can neither fight nor retreat, nor can they retreat.
I can only kneel down and call daddy.
The same was true when Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turks.
Even Zhu Di's Northern Expedition to the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was the same.
In short, in the long history, Liu Che has never seen any dynasty that did not go deep into the desert, manage the Western Regions, and make the nomads kneel down and call Tian Khan father.
However, this second policy of Julihu Shanyu made Liu Che more vigilant.
He announced that the Xiongnu would reward anyone who brought Han scholars, craftsmen, and books to the Xiongnu.
And, he will definitely do what he says.
what does that mean?
Liu Che knows it very well!
The Huns are going to carry out Yelu Abaoji-style reforms!
If the Huns can make up their mind to further promote Sinicization, then their national power will definitely increase!
There is no doubt about this!
Although the current Han and Hungarians have widened the generational gap in terms of equipment, national strength and even technology and tactics.
But after all, the generation gap in the cold weapon era is just that.
Liu Che has not forgotten that the African black uncle once taught the British lobster soldiers how to behave with swords, spears and bows and arrows.
In fact, in fact, even in later generations, the US military, which was built with a lot of money and had all kinds of arrogance and coolness, was still troubled.
The Tomahawk missile, which costs tens of millions to build, has almost no use in the mountainous areas of Afghanistan.
The same is true today.
The trump card of the Han army, the cuirassiers, although they have strong combat effectiveness, the problem is - it is impossible for the cuirassiers to travel thousands of miles and go deep into the north of the curtain to hide and seek with the Huns.
The main force of the Han army still does not have the combat capabilities to travel thousands of miles and penetrate deep into the desert.
If the Huns shrink their heads, Liu Che will be unable to do anything to them for a while.
And this third policy of Lihu Chanyu hit Liu Che's weakness.
He ordered all ministries not to allow horses to go south.
He didn't even care about the separatist forces of the Western Huns.
Judging from the intelligence Liu Che has now received, this new leader of the Xiongnu has convinced other tribes to only send people to guard the key roads and chokepoints from the Hexi Corridor to the Western Regions.
Its main force will march westward with all its strength.
This Chanyu of Juli Lake even shouted the slogan of robbing one million slaves a year!
This is really terrible!
Liu Che's nightmare that the Xiongnu would never surrender even if the last third brother was killed seems to be becoming a reality.
This nightmare forced Liu Che to modify his plan and prepare in advance to launch the Hexi Corridor Battle. Originally, Liu Che planned to sit on the mountain and watch tigers fight, watch the Huns bite dogs, and then prepare to take advantage of it.
However, the Huns are not stupid either.
Even the so-called Western Huns, the stubborn and stubborn people that Liu Che once ignored, seem to be sending people to contact Guli Lake to negotiate something.
Anyway, it can’t be a good thing!
Thinking about this, Liu Che sighed.
Last year, in less than a year, the Han army launched two large-scale battles one after another.
This brought a heavy burden to the Han Dynasty and the world.
Although Liu Che relied on Qi Wang Liu Jianglu, he barely managed to maintain the financial balance.
However, both the army and the people were overwhelmed.
If there is another large-scale war next year, then there is no doubt that this will be an act of militarism.
Moreover, it will definitely overdraw the national power.
Even if the Hexi Corridor is captured, the Han Dynasty will probably have to retreat to lick their wounds and recuperate.
The only option is to take a one to two year break.
This is a helpless thing.
In this way, the Western Huns and the Northern Huns must never be allowed to reconcile.
Therefore, Liu Che sent an envoy half a month ago to negotiate with Qiequ Qiediao and discuss the matter of allowing the left general and regent of the Western Huns to surrender to the Han Dynasty.
Of course, it was only in name, roughly equivalent to the surrender of North Korea, Vietnam, and the Chinese dynasty in later generations.
Liu Che was not afraid that it would be difficult for him to agree to this condition.
If he dared to refuse, Liu Che would dare to cut off the supply of Xiaoyaosan to him.
On the other hand, Liu Che's envoys were also flirting with and flirting with the new Shanyu of Gouli Lake.
This is called diplomacy.
There are no eternal allies and no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
"Just like this, it's not enough..." Liu Che thought in his heart: "I have to let Shanyu Guiyi go to Longcheng as soon as possible..."
Guiyi Shanyu Xia Yi has now been completely transformed into a polished commander by Liu Che.
His old tribes and tribes have now been basically divided up by the Xianbei people, the Wuheng people, and even Zhenfan and South Korea.
There is no way, this is the nature of nomads.
If you have breasts, you are a mother!
As for Xia Yi's songs, they were basically all bitter, and many people didn't even have enough to eat.
As soon as I was tempted by these guys with livestock and women, my calves became disobedient.
Of course, in this process, it was Anton’s reclamation group that reaped the most rewards.
Basically, all the outstanding herdsmen and elite cavalry in Xia Yi's tribe were poached by the various settlement regiments.
In addition, brothers Chen Xu and Chen Jiao also poached about hundreds of people.
As a result, the Hujie tribe, which was once famous on the grassland, has completely become history.
His people and nobles were all divided up.
Xia Yi, who became the bachelor commander, naturally became Liu Che's puppet.
And if he goes to Longcheng, he will officially become a Chanyu.
Then, with the support of Liu Che, this Shanyu will have great influence and appeal.
The Xiongnu Empire was completely split into three pieces.
Southern Xiongnu, Northern Xiongnu, Western Xiongnu.
It happens to be the Romance of the Three Kingdoms!
Next year there will be another wave of immigration and the carving up of Munan pastures, and Liu Che will be able to tell his father and grandfather: What you have been dreaming about, your son (grandson) has already done for you, and the Huns Empire has been completely dismembered.
