With the exception of Yizhou, most of the Han Dynasty had been recovered.
After Liu Bei captured Jingzhou and Hanzhong, he ceased his activities and had no intention of continuing.
It's not that he doesn't want to continue to regain Yizhou, but with the current ability, they can only do it step by step and cannot go straight in.
From Chang'an to Hanzhong, Wuxian to Bajun, they are all thousands of miles away. The straight-line distance is four to five hundred kilometers. Not to mention that the roads along the way are rugged and difficult to navigate, with many cliffs. The actual distance is even longer.
And even if Hanzhong is taken, it does not mean that Chengdu can be taken directly, because Hanzhong is just a small plain sandwiched between the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountain.
Therefore, if you want to go south from Hanzhong to attack Sichuan, you have to pass through Daba Mountain.
Through Daba Mountain, there are only two relatively safe roads, except for the Yinping Trail and the Ziwu Road, which was known as the Lychee Ancient Road in the Tang Dynasty.
One is the Golden Ox Path, and the other is the Rice Cang Path.
As long as Liu Zhang could tightly guard these two roads, coupled with the extremely long grain and grass transportation front from Chang'an to Hanzhong, it would be almost impossible to enter the Sichuan Basin and conquer the city of Chengdu in a short time.
Regardless of the history, it seems that Liu Bei's attack on Chengdu was relatively easy, but that was because Liu Zhang did not intercept him and put him into the Sichuan Basin, which was an attack from the inside.
It is very difficult to break the barriers of the Sichuan Basin from the outside.
It takes at least one or two years to prepare grain and grass in the early stage. A large amount of grain and grass will be transported from Guandong to Luoyang in advance, then transferred to Chang'an, and finally stored in Hanzhong.
The same is true for the Jingzhou front.
The Sichuan Basin has Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountains in the north, and Wushan Mountains and Wuling Mountains in the east.
Moreover, the road from Jingzhou to Yizhou is basically the only road along the Yangtze River. Although you can also go from the Han River to Hanzhong, and to Dingyuan City on the upper reaches of the Han River, you can take the Ziwu Road south, but this is no different from attacking from Chang'an.
Therefore, for various reasons, Liu Bei could not immediately attack Yizhou after taking Jingzhou and Hanzhong. Instead, he adopted intimidation tactics, stationed troops on the border, and was ready to attack at any time.
Not long after regaining Jingzhou, Liu Bei left Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and Taishi Ci behind, and then returned to the court. Now there are still many important things to deal with in the court.
The first is the issue of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal planned by Chen Mu. There are no major issues for the time being, but there are constant small issues, such as route planning, water conservancy facilities, flood and disaster prevention, etc.
But Liu Bei doesn't need to worry about these things, Chen Mu is in charge of them.
What he really has to deal with is something else.
Official issues.
As more and more areas are recovered, official problems will become more prominent.
At present, the system for selecting talents has not been perfected. Qingzhou mainly relies on students from Taishan Academy to take the government affairs examination and become civil servants after passing it.
Other prefectures and counties do not have the same years of foundation as Qingzhou, so whether the Qingzhou model can be implemented in other places is still a question.
Therefore, the selection of officials in other places is often still based on the previous inspection and recruitment system and the recruitment system.
On the one hand, this is not standardized, and on the other hand, fish and dragons are mixed together, allowing the aristocratic family to multiply.
Therefore, in order to improve the selection of officials, the cabinet formulated a plan, which required Liu Bei to go back and approve it.
In addition, there are many big things.
For example, the current situation of the Han Dynasty is that they have a lot of money and no place to spend it. The salaries of officials and the income of ordinary people seriously exceed the standards, and are close to half of the level of the Song Dynasty.
Don't think that the level of half of the Song Dynasty was very low. The monthly income of a prime minister in the Song Dynasty was about 900 guan, which was equivalent to the annual income of a prime minister in the Tang Dynasty. The income of ordinary low-level officials was also two to three times higher than the income of officials of the same level in later generations.
Nowadays, the standard annual income of three ministers and cabinet ministers is about 5 million yuan. The annual income of a prime minister in the Song Dynasty is about 10 million copper coins, and the purchasing power of five baht coins is not as good as that of Song Dynasty Tongbao.
It doesn't seem like much, but the problem is that except for Qingzhou, the current economy of the Han Dynasty is not as good as the economic level of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, to a certain extent, the current economic development speed is too fast, causing productivity to be unable to keep up.
People have a lot of money, but they can only produce so much in a short period of time. They can only save their money and not spend it. Due to the promotion of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, eating is not a problem.
But other aspects will be much worse, with supply exceeding demand, resulting in a shortage of goods. Except for food prices, other prices remain high.
certainly.
Due to the special nature of precious metals, inflation will definitely not occur.
Even if everyone has money and cannot spend the large amounts of brass, silver, and gold flowing in from Japan, they can still be made into metal jewelry, earrings, necklaces, hairpins, etc. Even if they are not enough, they can also be made into furniture and tableware.
But since the country is not short of money, it should take advantage of the victory and start vigorously developing productivity, constantly spending money, encouraging handicraft manufacturing, planting cash crops, etc.
For example, cotton cultivation can be promoted in the north to ease the transportation costs of purchasing cotton from the Western Regions. There are also tea cultivation, porcelain production, etc.
This can quickly solve the embarrassing situation of insufficient domestic productivity and too much money and little material.
So Liu Bei had to go back and make arrangements in this area.
The role of the government should be to predict in advance and guide the development of the people, rather than to act only after knowing what is lacking.
In addition, rubber has flowed into Han Dynasty since the year before last. The fleet brought back the seeds of more than 2,000 rubber trees. Last year, Qingzhou organized a larger fleet to go overseas, which lasted for one and a half years. In the middle of this year, it was
Returned.
In addition to continuing to bring back more specialties from the Americas and South America, this time it is more important to transport talents to the Americas, especially geologists from the School of Geography, who are sent there almost in droves.
Chen Mu studied in the United States and worked on Wall Street. Even if he is not a geology major, he knows that the United States, Canada, and Australia are rich in mineral resources.
The most famous are San Francisco, San Francisco and Melbourne, although South Africa is the place with the richest mineral reserves in the world.
But at least for now, the Han Dynasty is not able to go to South Africa for mining. It is just a way to the Americas. Geologists will go there first, survey the marks, and wait for decades or hundreds of years before science and technology develops before taking action.
At this time, the mineral resources in Japan, North Korea and China are enough for the Han Dynasty. There is no need to worry about the depletion of various minerals within a hundred years. It is really not possible. After rubber is fully used in daily life, steam engines develop the steel industry, and steam ships appear, then
Just Australia.
Compared to America, Australia is much closer.
Chen Mu sent a fleet to Luzon Island. This island, later known as the Philippines, had trade relations with Guangzhou as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties.
Because in some Han tombs in Guangzhou in later generations, many ritual vessels from ancient Southeast Asia were unearthed.
A large number of five-baht coins and pottery from the Han Dynasty were also unearthed from ancient tombs in the Philippines, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java Island and Kalimantan.
This is enough to show that at that time, Guangzhou was the first foreign trade port in Chinese history, and its business footprints had spread all over Southeast Asia.
The fleet followed Chen Mu's instructions, and Zhenhaiwei sent a thousand soldiers to guard the ship. They also sent people to open up land on Luzon Island to plant rice, potatoes, corn, and most importantly, rubber planting.
In fact, the most suitable place for rubber planting is Hainan, which is close to Guangzhou and suitable for water and land transportation.
But now the Guangzhou area is still in the hands of Shi Xie. After Jingzhou was pacified, Shi Xie, the governor of Jiaozhou, quickly submitted his submission to the imperial court, but he did not obey the imperial dispatch and continued to separate Jiaozhou.
Chen Mu knew that it would not be easy to remove the influence of the Shixie family in the local area, so he could not put the rubber in Hainan. It was too close to Shixie and too far from the imperial court. If Shixie wanted to cause trouble, it would most likely cost the imperial court a lot of effort.
waste.
That's why he occupied Taiwan and went south to Luzon to plant rubber and rice in the Philippines. In the future, he also plans to move agricultural crops further south, first to Jingzhou and Yangzhou, then to Guangzhou, and finally to Southeast Asia, making this place a great place for Han Dynasty
The garden behind the granary.
After Liu Bei returned to Luoyang, the entire country's development plans were piled in front of him. He had learned that as long as it was submitted by Chen Mu or agreed to it, he didn't need to read it and just asked Wang Zhi to stamp his seal.
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As for the internal plans of the cabinet and the three ministers and ministers, they must be discussed and improved by the cabinet before he will carefully watch them and let the cabinet come up with reference opinions.
Until the end of Zhang Wu's fifth year, he was busy with endless things every day. The big and small matters of the country were pressing on him, and he was a little tired.
But the high-efficiency operation of the government also gave new vitality to this ancient empire newly built from the ruins.
At the end of the fifth year of Zhangwu, Liu Bei first established several major events.
The first is to determine the five capitals.
The western capital is Chang'an, the eastern capital is Linzi, the northern capital has been renamed Zhuoxian in Peiping, the southern capital is Xiangyang, and the central capital is Luoyang.
The reason for this arrangement is that these places will be the most important part of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the future, and the transportation along the route has its own counterpart. For example, Jingzhou and Yangzhou are grain-producing areas, Qingzhou and Linzi are science and technology and overseas ports, Chang'an is the old capital, and Luoyang is
The capital, Peiping, will start the textile industry.
Among them, Chang'an, Linzi, Peiping, and Luoyang are not in dispute. Only the Southern Capital is contested by Yangzhou and Jingzhou officials. Yangzhou officials believe that the southern end of the Grand Canal starts from Qiantang, and the Southern Capital should be located in Jiangdong, such as Moling.
county.
Officials from Jingzhou believe that Jingzhou is connected to Yizhou in the west, Yangzhou in the east, Jiaozhou in the south, and Luoyang in the north. The transportation is more convenient. It is also in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and has a developed water transportation network. It is geographically more advantageous than Jiangdong.
Everyone knows the benefits of establishing the capital. Nowadays, the center of national development is along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. After establishing the capital, there are countless benefits that can be brought to one's hometown.
So the two sides fought over this matter.
In the end, the matter came to Chen Mu. After careful consideration, Chen Mu decided to temporarily set the southern capital in Xiangyang, and made a promise that Moling would also vigorously develop. The two cities competed. If Moling develops well in the future, the southern capital can be moved.
In fact, the so-called five capitals can be understood as the five major special economic zones. With these five special economic zones, not only the development factors are concentrated in these five places, but the official level is half a level higher.
For example, Jingzhou Prefecture Mu is the second rank of Cong, which is equivalent to a provincial senior official or senior official compared with later generations. However, the senior official of Guangdong Province is a deputy national level official because it is a special economic zone.
Therefore, after the five capitals were designated, the original Chang'an Jingzhao Yin, Qingzhou Mu, Jingzhou Mu, and Youzhou Mu were all at a higher level. They were upgraded from the original second rank to the second rank, higher than Jiuqing. They will be transferred to the central government in the future.
It basically starts with the first-rank minister of the cabinet or the nine ministers.
This is one of the reasons why officials from Jingzhou and Yangzhou competed for the southern capital.
The reason why Chen Mu placed the southern capital in Xiangyang was because from a practical point of view, he believed that the current Xiangyang was more suitable.
Although Moling County in the Han Dynasty became Nanjing City in later generations, Nanjing's development mainly came from the large-scale population migration southward during the Southern Song Dynasty and the foreign trade during the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties.
Nowadays, the function of foreign trade has been replaced by Shandong. The Han Dynasty placed the grain production area in the south, so its current function should be mainly to produce and transport grain.
That is internal trade.
In terms of internal trade, it is obvious that Hubei, the thoroughfare of nine provinces, is more suitable to be the southern capital.
Therefore, before the general plan of Jiangdong was changed, the southern capital was temporarily placed in Xiangyang, waiting for Nanjing, now known as Moling, to develop through foreign trade.
After the five major special economic zones are determined, the second thing is population.
Nowadays, crop promotion is also a top priority, but after experiencing the famine, people understand the preciousness of food better. Under the national plan, new crops have been planted in large quantities.
When food production is increased, the population must be restored. The government has issued a series of population fertility incentives, including tax exemptions, land allocation, bonuses, etc.
Triggered a postwar baby boom.
At the same time as the baby boom, medical care has also developed rapidly.
The emergence of microscopes greatly promoted the development of medicine. Hua Tuo, Zhang Ji and others were extremely interested in microorganisms.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There was no shortage of corpses during the war, and Hua Tuo was a famous surgical expert. Therefore, human anatomy was promoted in Qingzhou Medical College, which made medicine in the Han Dynasty advance by leaps and bounds.
Giving birth to a child is a narrow escape, but in order to cooperate with the country's population recovery policy, the medical school recruits female doctors and vigorously trains gynecologists.
In fact, the status of women in ancient times was always low. In the laws of the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, a wife who killed her husband was punished by death. A husband could only kill his wife under special circumstances, such as forcing his wife to become a prostitute. If the wife refused to comply, the death penalty would be imposed.
At other times, it is not the death penalty. Even if the husband catches, rapes and kills his wife and her lover, he is not guilty. This has led to many classic cases of oppression and injustice against women in ancient times.
Chen Mu re-enacted the law, based on the laws of later generations, cultivated a large number of legal talents, improved the status of women, and put forward the slogan "Women can hold up half the sky", which led to the emergence of a large number of female students in Taishan Academy.
Moreover, most of these female students are the children of high-ranking officials and nobles. It is almost impossible for girls from poor families to go to school. Even under the free education system, they are often forced to drop out of school and go home after studying for a few years. Many people get married at the age of twelve or thirteen.
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For this reason, a new law has to be introduced, which stipulates that the legal age for marriage of women has been raised from fifteen to seventeen years old. Originally, you could get married after you were fifteen years old and after you have your hair. Now the age has been changed to seventeen.
This is to adapt to the current population planning system and increase the number of people currently in urgent need of the Han Dynasty as soon as possible.
Otherwise, the ideal age should be twenty years old.
After all, being underage means that your development is not perfect. Getting married and having children at an early age is not good for your health.
Starting the year before last, slavery was officially abolished.
Chen Mu put forward the slogan "Everyone is equal" and painted it on the walls of cities and rural areas.
Overnight, Dahan's census count increased by millions.
The population has increased from 22 million when the first census was conducted in the first year of Zhangwu to 36 million today.
Among them, nearly 10 million people come from Yuzhou, Jingzhou and Yangzhou that the imperial court has recovered in the past two years. The rest is about three to four million, which is the population hidden by all the powerful families in the entire Han Dynasty except Yizhou.
Nowadays, Dahan’s control over the grassroots is actually not enough.
The best way is to continue to popularize education and remove all the stereotypes and bad habits of those families at the grassroots level that control villages, towns, and villages.
Therefore, Chen Mu followed the Qingzhou model and started basic education in counties across the country and established free public schools.
At the same time, a large number of grassroots officials are promoted, and all officials must start from the grassroots level. Even if they come from a wealthy family, they must stay at the grassroots level for at least three years before being promoted.
In addition, in addition to Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Sun Ce and others, their generals and counselors, and those who were willing to serve as officials, gradually began to be used.
People like Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, Chen Gong, Xi Zhicai, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, etc. are all outstanding talents. They first left the grassroots and officially became officials.
Wait until they have achieved results and then gradually promote them.
As for people like Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Sun Ce, for the time being, they have been given some titles and casual officials, which can be regarded as a semi-circular ban. We will wait until the future.
In addition to capital and population policies.
Chen Mu also standardized the law, reorganized the army, developed the economy, agriculture and science and technology, and even promoted criminal investigation.
For example, various case-handling methods were collected across the country to promote the development of forensic science and compiled into a book for promotion across the country.
Canal excavation work is now in full swing, and rubber planting has just begun.
It is estimated that within the next five years, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is likely to be initially opened to navigation. After all, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal actually communicates based on the original water area, and the number of miles of excavation is actually not much. Historically, it only took six years for Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to open it.
Year.
However, after five years of initial opening, it may take ten to twenty years for full completion. Chen Mu is still mentally prepared for this. Moreover, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is a slow flow, and shipping often relies on trackers to pull it.
Therefore, if you really want to be ahead of the times, you have to focus your technology tree on steam engines, concentrate your efforts on making steel first, and then build steamships.
When steamships can operate smoothly on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, maybe in another thirty years, trains will be developed.
It has to be said that the slow development of a country is beyond Chen Mu's imagination.
He once thought that after the world was unified, trains would be built soon.
But when he actually implemented it, he found that there were many difficulties and many things were not as simple as he imagined.
Chen Mu is 38 years old this year.
He often wonders whether he will be able to see Dahan's first train line open when he is 60 years old.
But no matter what, we must at least move in this direction.
And in the midst of the country's booming development, Zhang Wu's five years have gradually come to an end.
The attack against Liu Zhang in Yizhou has been prepared for nearly half a year and has officially begun.