On the tenth day of the first month of the ninth year of Zhang Wu's reign, the Han Channel was sailed, and in February all officials in Guangling were rewarded. This news inspired officials all over the Han Dynasty, and the work of building the canal was in full swing.
And in May, another good news came: the Xianbei in the east surrendered, and the Xianbei in the west fled to Yanran Mountain in Mobei.
Zhang Liao continued to attack,
He went two thousand miles into the Hanhai Desert and defeated the western Xianbei at Zhuoxie Mountain. He then went north to attack Longcheng and drove the western Xianbei to the Jinwei Mountain area. On the way back to the court, he followed the example of Dou Xian and carved stones on Yanran Mountain to record his merits.
Now the entire desert, which is later Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, is divided into southern Mongolia and northern Mongolia.
Monan is the area around Inner Mongolia.
Originally occupied by the Xianbei people,
Tanshihuai established the powerful Xianbei Empire in the entire Monan, and defeated the Han Dynasty many times. After Tanshihuai, Xianbei split into three parts: West and East.
Western Xianbei is mainly located in the northwest of Bingzhou, and its approximate location is in the later Wuhai City, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, Wuwei City, and Jinchang City, Gansu Province.
In later generations, desertification was more severe in these places, but during the Han Dynasty, it was not only a vast grassland, but also a large number of lakes, such as the famous Juyanze, Duyeze and Mingze, so it was a very suitable place for the grassland people to live.
The central Xianbei is entrenched in the north of Bingzhou and the northwest region of Youzhou. The location area is Ordos, Hohhot, Ulanqab, etc. in later generations.
Because it was the closest, the one that had the most wars with the Central Plains dynasty was Xianbei in the central part of the country.
The eastern Xianbei live south of the Greater Xianbei Mountains, that is, to the south of the Greater Khingan Mountains.
The approximate location is in the Xilingol League of later Inner Mongolia and the northwest area of Chifeng.
This is the situation in the entire Monan and Xianbei tribes.
What about the Huns?
By the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu, the most powerful enemy of the Western Han Dynasty, had basically conquered the country.
The first decline of the Xiongnu was during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
He was chased by Wei Qing and Huo Qubing all the way to Beihai, which was almost the area around Lake Baikal in Russia in later generations.
The second decline occurred in the third year of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, during the three-pronged attack on the Xiongnu in the Western Han Dynasty.
The result of this battle was that the Huns were almost crippled. Three-tenths of the Huns were killed and one-half of the livestock were killed. Coupled with the bad weather, the Huns were close to annihilation.
By the Eastern Han Dynasty, affected by bad weather, the Huns were increasingly declining. Not only did a large number of natural disasters occur in the areas they ruled, causing famine and epidemics among humans and animals, and most of them died. There were also internal conflicts and divisions.
In AD 46, the 22nd year of Emperor Guangwu's founding, the Huns were officially divided into the Southern Xiongnu and the Northern Xiongnu. The Southern Xiongnu Chanyu Ri Zhu Wangbi led 40,000 Huns southward and surrendered to the Han Dynasty.
In the following more than a hundred years, the Northern Huns were attacked successively by the Han, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Southern Xiongnu and even Dawan, Wusun and other countries in the Western Regions, and were very weak.
In the end, I had to continue fleeing westward,
They barely defeated Wusun and occupied the Wusun Kingdom, Kangju Kingdom and other places, which was almost the same area as Xinjiang, Ili and Kazakhstan in later generations. The entire Monan was given to Xianbei.
Therefore, this time Zhang Liao went north to attack Xianbei. In the Monan region, they only had one enemy, Xianbei in the west.
Because during the Battle of Liaodong, Wuhuan had surrendered.
The central Xianbei was already crippled by Lu Bu. After Zhang Liao went north, the leader of the central Xianbei, Bu Dugen, was defeated and surrendered. Xie Guini chose to surrender. The eastern Xianbei was even more afraid to go against the powerful Han Dynasty.
Only the western Xianbei were unwilling to surrender, so Zhang Liao attacked boldly and defeated the western Xianbei army. They fled to Jinwei Mountain and lived like the northern Xiongnu.
When he learned that Zhang Liao had returned with a great victory, Liu Bei was overjoyed. He rewarded many of the soldiers who went on the expedition and told the world that the Han Dynasty would show off its power.
An emperor's long-term achievements are naturally his martial arts and martial arts.
In terms of civil governance, Liu Bei sent an ocean-going fleet to bring back a large number of high-yielding crops, raising countless people. He also established the rule of law, separated the three powers, and supervised local officials, making it difficult for officials to blatantly harm the people.
In terms of martial arts, Liu Bei recovered the ruined country, rejuvenated the Han Dynasty, and occupied the Sanhan Peninsula and Wonu Island. This time he swept across Monan Xianbei and Yanran Leshi. He has reached the extreme of being a king.
So in August of the ninth year of Zhangwu AD, Liu Bei carefully asked the cabinet whether he could be enshrined in Mount Tai next year in recognition of his merits.
The reason for being cautious.
It was because Liu Bei was a little embarrassed.
Taishan Fengchan is not a simple matter.
According to the records in "Historical Records: Book of Fengchan", except for emperors with extremely powerful civil and military skills, ordinary emperors were not qualified to go.
By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, only four emperors had been there.
The first is Qin Shihuang, the second is Qin II, the third is Emperor Wu of Han, and the fourth is Emperor Guangwu.
Hu Hai, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, was just joining in the fun. Many people did not take him seriously and did not recognize his merits.
Therefore, apart from the twelve ancient emperors recorded by Sima Qian in "Historical Records: Fengchan Book", there are basically three recognized emperors: Qin Shihuang, Han Wu Emperor and Guangwu Emperor.
Moreover, these three emperors are all ranked in the top five not only in Qin and Han Dynasty, but also among the emperors in the entire history. Only Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang can compare with them.
Therefore, when Liu Bei carefully asked Chen Mu, Xunyu, Xunyou, and Jia Xu whether they were qualified to be granted Zen status, he felt blushing.
He is really afraid that others will say that he is thick-skinned and insists on going to Mount Tai to forcibly commend his achievements even though he is not qualified.
However, what he didn't expect was that when Chen Mu, Xun Yu, Xun You Ju, Jia Xu and others heard about this, they all just smiled and did not object immediately. Instead, they discussed the situation seriously.
After a little discussion, everyone thought that Liu Bei's achievements were enough to go to Mount Tai to be enshrined in Zen, so they all agreed with the matter and thought that he could go to Mount Tai to be enshrined in Zen next year.
Liu Bei was very happy to hear that the cabinet agreed. On the next day, he summoned all ministers above the second rank in Luoyang to discuss the matter.
The sixth day of August in the ninth year of Zhangwu.
In the small hall located behind the Xuanshi Hall, almost all the Han Prime Minister, two generals, Sangong and Jiuqing, the cabinet, and the Nine Tigers who were not stationed in other places and stayed in Luoyang were present.
Sitting at the top is naturally Liu Bei, followed by the two generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and then Chen Mu.
Below are the three ministers and nine ministers and many cabinet members, and the other nine tigers will sit quietly.
After everyone had arrived, Chen Mucai said loudly: "Everyone, I have called you here today to discuss three topics. The first one is that the First Five-Year Plan is coming to an end. Year-end reports on the work progress of each department need to be summarized.
Let’s start with Da Sinong.”
"Back to Your Majesty, Prime Minister, the First Five-Year Plan will comprehensively promote grain production."
Grand Sinong Wang Yi stood up and raised his hands and said: "According to the arrangement of the Prime Minister, the agricultural production areas in the south should be in the Lianghuai, Jiangdong and Jinghu areas. Nowadays, the rice production in these places has doubled, and the grain output has doubled. And corn, potatoes,
Sweet potatoes and peanuts have been grown in the north, everywhere..."
Next is a bunch of data, such as the percentage increase in grain production in various places over the years, the current grain prices among the people, what measures the court has taken to deal with the rise and fall of grain prices and salt prices, and the food supply when disasters occur in various places.
Whether it is sufficient, etc.
It is worth mentioning that although the Han Dynasty is now reunited, it does not mean that the country is in good weather.
Frequent natural disasters caused by the Little Ice Age still exist.
Historically, the Little Ice Age of the Eastern Han Dynasty did not appear only at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but there were obvious signs during the period of Emperor Huan.
According to historical records, in the 60 years from 140 to 200, the number of natural disasters in the Eastern Han Dynasty reached an astonishing more than 100 times. There were 28 recorded solar eclipses alone. During this period, the Northern Huns even nearly died due to natural disasters.
Genocide.
Therefore, it can be said that the Little Ice Age lasted for a very long time and did not end until the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty. The damage lasted for more than a hundred years. It played a great role in promoting the huge population decline at the end of the Han Dynasty.
After Liu Bei unified the Han Dynasty, natural disasters continued.
Like the Han River and Yangtze River floods the year before last, the two lakes areas and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River suffered flood disasters.
There was a severe drought in Guanzhong last summer, earthquakes in Xiliang and Guanzhong in winter, a locust plague in Guandong at the beginning of this year, hail in Youzhou, and rain in Huaibei for three consecutive months.
This will test the dispatching ability of local officials and the court.
Fortunately, Chen Mu reformed the official system and determined the fixed position. A large number of granaries were built in various places for storage during normal times. During the harvest years, the court purchased a large amount of grain for storage. In times of famine, granaries were immediately opened to release grain to cope with the crisis.
Then the imperial court would send a large number of officials there, some responsible for resettling the victims, some responsible for plague prevention, some responsible for counting the number of victims, and some secretly investigating whether there was any harm inside.
The entire up-down mechanism is very complete, with dedicated personnel in charge and one-to-one correspondence. An accountability system has also been launched. Although there may be loopholes in it, it can solve many problems on a large scale.
With such a mechanism and the initial solution to the food problem, although disasters continued every year in Dahan, there were no major fluctuations overall.
Wang Yi finished talking about Han's agricultural achievements in the past few years.
Then, at the Yuntai Hall of the Cabinet, Xun You, who also served as the Shaofu, stood up and talked about the financial and medical situation of the Han Dynasty this year.
Because there was no Ministry of Health in the Han Dynasty, and the medical vision was also barbaric. The imperial palace only had a 600-kilogram institution, the Imperial Medical Office. No one supervised the doctors, and no one was responsible for promoting medical and health services.
Therefore, Chen Mu re-established the Department of Health, which was still under the control of the Shaofu like the Imperial Medical Department. The word "health" comes from "Zhuangzi", which can be understood as "to prevent things from happening, to prevent them from happening."
The Department of Health was established to prevent the spread of diseases and viruses. The order of the Department of Health was the second rank, which was much higher than the rank of Taiyi Ling, the original highest medical officer of the Han Dynasty.
Although the Shaofu is in charge of finance, medical development cannot be separated from money, so being under the Shaofu will at least receive preferential treatment in annual funding approval.
Because Hua Tuo was used to wandering around in the wild and was more interested in the world of germs, he still studied medicine in Qingzhou.
Wu Pu, a disciple of Hua Tuo, is currently in charge of the Department of Health. He established hospitals and medical schools, standardized medical services, strengthened institutional reforms, trained doctors for the Han Dynasty, and made great contributions to establishing a complete medical and epidemic prevention system.
Wu Pu was only from the second rank and was not qualified to enter the palace, so Xun You made the report.
Xun You carefully talked about the financial situation of Dahan in the past few years, as well as local allocations, medical development, etc.
The current financial situation is very good. The currency currently issued is basically made of alloys, and the raw materials are less than those used in the five-baht currency in the past.
Minerals from Samhan Peninsula and Wonu Island were excavated and transported to Qingzhou, and gold, silver and copper were added.
Therefore, the financial situation of the imperial court is now very good.
Not to mention silver and copper.
The gold reserves in stock alone amount to more than 1,000 tons.
Yes.
This is the current amount of gold in Liu Bei's court inventory.
After the Western Han Dynasty, the gold reserves of the Eastern Han Dynasty declined greatly. In addition to wars, the most important reason was the problem of burials of nobles in the Western Han Dynasty.
Let’s not talk about how many funerary objects were unearthed from the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty in the past dynasties. Among the tombs that have not been robbed, there are countless gold objects unearthed through rescue excavation by later archaeologists.
For example, the amount of gold buried in the tomb of Marquis Haihun amounted to more than 500 kilograms.
There are also 219 gold cakes from the Han Tomb in Xi'an, weighing more than 200 kilograms, and more than 40 kilograms of horseshoe gold and gold cakes from the Han Tomb in Jiangsu.
In addition, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Dalian and other places have successively unearthed large amounts of horseshoe gold and toe gold from the Western Han Dynasty, totaling several tons.
Moreover, according to historical records, the gold used for rewards in the Western Han Dynasty was only about 250 tons. If the reserves in the hands of princes and nobles across the country are included, the gold reserves of the entire Western Han Dynasty were more than 1,000 tons.
But after the Eastern Han Dynasty, the amount of gold decreased sharply. First, the Silk Road was cut off, and external gold income flowing from Central Asia and Europe dropped sharply.
The second is the decrease in mining quantity. The Eastern Han Dynasty court stipulated that the annual mining quantity is 400 kilograms, which is 0.8 tons.
Therefore, the amount of gold in the Eastern Han Dynasty was naturally far less than that in the Western Han Dynasty.
However, as the west was not bright and the east was bright, the Silk Road was cut off. But after Chen Mu occupied Japan, he recruited local indigenous people to mine the Sado Gold Mountain, Iwami Silver Mine, Ashio Copper Mountain, Besshi Copper Mountain, etc. in Japan.
The gold, silver and copper mines are excavated and shipped to the country.
Since the Silk Road was cut off, the Han Dynasty once again had a massive influx of gold, silver, and copper. Not only did the court become rich and powerful, but money was also widely allocated to the people through the canal project. Every year, tens of billions of copper coins flowed into the people through the canal project alone.
According to the preliminary budget of the Shaofu, if the entire project is completed, the total number of copper coins that the Han Dynasty will need to spend will reach more than 200 billion. If the number of copper coins required is too large, silver coins will be used to circulate and pay for it.
Spending a huge amount of money will naturally have its effects. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal of the Han Dynasty far exceeded the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in terms of scale and quantity. Even the later Song Dynasty and Ming and Qing Dynasties developed the Grand Canal, which was not as planned by Chen Mu today.
So perfect.
At least historically there was no route from Jingzhou to Luoyang.
Improved productivity, more food, good financial conditions, and wealthy people have become the cornerstone of a country's rapid development. This is of great help in creating a virtuous cycle.
In terms of medical care, the Department of Health has vigorously promoted the rural doctor system, trained a large number of grassroots doctors, and resolutely maintained the country's epidemic prevention policy.
Although Chen Mu attached great importance to epidemic prevention work, in fact, the plague in the Eastern Han Dynasty never stopped.
Historically, the great plague in the late Han Dynasty killed between 10 and 20 million people. The population went from more than 50 million during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty to less than 20 million during the Three Kingdoms period. At least most of them were due to the plague.
Chen Mu's anti-epidemic policy was only aimed at the wars he led. The wars between other princes would also cause the plague and then spread.
Therefore, plague pandemics killed 10 to 20 million people in history, but now they have been reduced a lot.
Being able to be reduced is reduced, but does not mean being eliminated.
Therefore, the plague is still prevalent among the people. The only difference is that after control, nearly 20 million people died originally and now 10 million people died.
Places such as Guanzhong, Hebei, Henan, Sili, Nanyang, Xuzhou and other places have experienced large-scale plagues in the past few years, causing a sharp decline in population. Coupled with wars and other reasons, the population has dropped significantly.
The current national population census is just over 40 million.
This was after Liu Bei defeated Yuan Shao. It had been seven or eight years since the Kanto region had been stable and the population had recovered to a certain extent.
If wars continue and no one controls the plague, it is very likely that the plague will continue to ravage, natural disasters and man-made disasters, and wars will rapidly reduce the population, as happened in history.
Fortunately, various systems and measures are relatively complete now. Zhang Zhongjing also found a way to treat the plague through studying bacteria.
Now we are conducting extensive management to prevent spread and strive to eliminate it as soon as possible.
Wang Yi and Xun You respectively reported on the situation and progress of agricultural production, economic development, and medical development since the First Five-Year Plan.
Then Taiwei Yang Biao, Situ Zhao Wen and new Sikong Shi Sun Rui reported the matter respectively.
Last year, Sikong Zhongfu died of illness, and the scholar Sun Rui filled the vacancy. Taichang was replaced by Cai Yong, the former Taishan Academy priest. The old man is already seventy-five years old this year. His daughter Cai Yan has long been married, and now he is devoted to education.
cause.
Taichang was originally in charge of sacrifices, but now the Ministry of Education has been added to take charge of national education. Therefore, Cai Yong can be regarded as a professional counterpart, who can not only preside over national sacrifices, but also be responsible for educational development.
The three ministers and nine ministers have reported on the work progress in the past few years. Except for the progress of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the rest of the overall work is still very satisfactory.
Including now that the country has become self-sufficient in food, productivity has exploded, a large number of textile factories have appeared in Youzhou in the north, and the southern Xiongnu and surrendered Xianbei and Wuhuan have begun to breed sheep to provide wool for Youzhou.
The rubber planting industry in Hainan Island and Luzon Island in the south has also been developing for several years and has entered the harvesting stage. The budding period of the industrial revolution has already appeared in Qingzhou, and the production capacity of Qingzhou Steel Plant has increased significantly.
The entire industrial chain and national development are in Chen Mu's plan. They are only waiting for the national Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to enter a period of rapid development and officially enter the beginning of the industrial revolution.
And in military terms.
When Liu Bei attacked Western Shu in three directions, the northwest general Zhao Yun was left to stay in Chengdu for a short time to prevent local rebellion.
After the main force of the imperial court left, due to dissatisfaction with the imperial land reform system, ethnic minorities in Bashu, Yongchang and other places colluded with local powerful families and launched rebellions. Zhao Yun suppressed them one by one, destroying a large number of southern barbarians.
After Yangzhou was recaptured, the Shanyue tribes in Yuzhang, Kuaiji and other places were affected by floods and suffered heavy losses, so they had to go north to attack Wujun Danyang and other places.
At that time, Southeast General Huang Zhong was guarding Jiangdong, but he was defeated. Then he sent officials to quell the unrest with both kindness and power.
There was also Xianbei in the north, who was pursued for two thousand miles by General Zhang Liao of the Left.
Lu Bu also made great contributions in this battle and was rewarded by Liu Bei. Now he has returned home to enjoy the happiness of family with his wife and children.
Northeastern General Xu Zheng was powerful in Liaodong. After he left, Goguryeo, Buyeo and other tribes rebelled in Liaodong. They were easily wiped out by the troops of Zhendong General Sun Guan who was stationed in the Samhan Peninsula.
Last year, Liangzhou was affected by bad weather, first an earthquake, and then heavy snowfall for eight months of the year. As a result, there was no harvest, and herds of cattle and sheep froze to death. The Qiang people launched a rebellion and wanted to plunder the land of Sanfu.
Zang Ba, the right general who replaced Guan Yu's garrison, defeated him.
It can be said that except for the fact that the Western Regions are too far away, the entire ethnic minority population in the Han border areas have either surrendered to the Han or been maimed and exterminated. Almost no one can pose the slightest threat to the current rule of the Han Dynasty.
Wenzhi and martial arts have reached their extreme!
It was not until all the reporting work was over that Chen Mu said loudly: "Shan, the first five-year plan has basically met expectations, and some even exceeded expectations, which is very good. Then the second five-year plan will follow
Topic: Your Majesty wants to be enshrined in Zen at Mount Tai. Is it possible, apart from you, considering your achievements today?"
There was silence in the court hall for a moment.
Then almost everyone stood up, raised their hands and said: "Your Majesty's martial arts skills are as good as those of Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and are worthy of being granted Zen status on Mount Tai!"