sweeping the world

Chapter 511 Maybe it's really time to cultivate your health?
Nowadays, there are not only the small courts of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who claim to be emperors in various countries. Shi Hu resumed his title of emperor in the third year of Yuanshuo. Proclaiming the emperor in most areas is reasonable, but Shihu currently only occupies Bingzhou and Shuozhou and proclaims himself the emperor, which is extremely impressive.

Since the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty surrendered with Chu Suanzi, the young emperor, his clan, and hundreds of civil and military officials, the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has perished from a legal point of view. Then Shi Hu is the only one who is called emperor in the Eastern Continent. A king's kingdom is not an empire called an emperor.

In fact, even proclaiming the emperor is not necessarily an empire. An empire is a powerful and invincible country. It has the power to easily destroy a country with one blow. For example, the Western Han Dynasty could easily destroy Nanyue, Minyue, Ailao, and Ye. Countries like Lang are also like Rome, which regards the Mediterranean Sea as an inland sea, and Anxi (Parthia), which occupies half of Central Asia and South Asia, is also an empire. On the surface, Guishuang is an empire, but in fact it can only be regarded as a powerful dynasty.

The King of Heaven is the noble position that the Hu people set up above the king. After Shi Le occupied most of the Central Plains, some great Confucians persuaded him to proclaim himself emperor. Powerful, but still afraid of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after thinking about it, he would call himself the king of heaven.

In addition to Shi Le's self-proclaimed Heavenly King, Shi Hu is the second barbarian who also calls himself the Heavenly King. If history has not changed, Murong Hao's son, Murong Jun, will continue to call himself the Heavenly King after Shi Hu.Murong Jun succeeded to the throne after Murong Hao's death. He first took over as King Yan, and later called himself King of Heaven, but he became emperor in [-] AD.The other heavenly king is Ran Min, but Ran Min was posthumously named by Murong Yan after his death. The reason was that after Ran Min’s death, a severe drought broke out in the Central Plains and locusts ravaged. He was posthumously named Wu after the proposal of some great Confucians and monks. Lose the king.

It is impossible for Ran Min to become the king of Wudao in this life. The road to becoming a king is tortuous and he firmly believes that it is not because Liu Yan is so repulsive, but because Ran Min will make unimaginable contributions.

"The puppet dynasty fell, and Shijie withdrew its troops from the Eastern Capital." Ran Min came to Xiangguo again, unable to hide his disappointment and bad luck: "The ministers sent troops to pursue, and the Hulu scattered on the north bank of Fen River, so they had to occupy the Central Capital and stop fighting. "

The news of the demise of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty spread very quickly, and it was known by all countries.The counterattack of Shijie Zhao State and Murong Yan State was based on the premise that the Han army was involved in the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. As long as the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty can persist, the two countries really have a basis for counterattack.

"No one expected that the small imperial court would perish so quickly." Liu Yan himself did not expect it, thinking that it would last for several years. After all, the south is mountainous and full of waterways, so it is really not that easy to fight.He said: "The small imperial court please surrender. The news spread to Bingzhou and Youzhou. Shijie and Murong Xianbei only knew that the big man could easily destroy the small imperial court. They should have hesitated because they were overwhelmed by the strength of our army."

The Murong Yan State has not yet resolved the war in Liaodong. The Yan army preparing to rush from Youzhou to Jizhou is composed of Murong Jun as the general and Murong Ke as the deputy general. .Nearly [-] of them fought on the Goguryeo front with the Goguryeo Army, Baekje Army, Silla Army, the armies of the Wa Islands, and the Buyeo tribes led by the Han Army.In addition, there are [-] to [-] Murong Yan troops involved in the Xianbei grassland and mountains.

Counting it, Murong Yan Country is fighting on no fewer fronts than Han Country, and Murong Yan Country is only a land of two prefectures, which shows that Murong Xianbei is still very strong.

The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty perished too quickly. Whether the Han army was strong or the small court was too weak, it was a huge bad news for Shijie Zhao and Murong Yan. The direct result was that the counterattack became anticlimactic.

"Shijie will recover if he can fight, and if he can't fight, retreat and avoid." Ran Min said with a sullen face, "This way the war will be prolonged."

It is reasonable to say that the war with Shijie Zhao State will last for a long time. Even if the Han State is to attack at all costs, Bingzhou will be conquered and there will be an extremely vast and grassland Shuozhou. More importantly, the possibility of the Han State attacking at any cost is lowering.

"Your Majesty heard that the princesses in the DPRK have stopped large-scale wars?" Ran Min hurried to Xiangguo because of this news: "Shijie is so weak, Murong Xianbei has enemies everywhere, and it is the time for the big man to wipe them out in one fell swoop. Can the war be stopped?!"

From the second year of Yuanshuo, the Han Dynasty began to expand its borders and land, and by the fourth year of Yuanshuo, most of the old land of the Han family had been restored. However, only Qingzhou can be considered to be recovering, and the rest of the states and counties are all waiting to be rebuilt.

The current Han Kingdom under Liu Yan's rule is actually very deformed. Qingzhou is the one that can generate benefits, and the tax contributions of other states and counties are almost none.The output of the country is worrying, and what supports it is an army of over one million. If it weren't for Liu Yan's golden fingers, it would not be able to sustain it at all.

To be clear, even if Liu Yan has a golden finger, most of the accumulation in the early stage has basically been consumed. Furthermore, the country really can't do this, and the restoration of people's livelihood and production in various places is really imminent.

"Yongzeng, the small imperial court has surrendered, but it doesn't mean that the south of the Yangtze River is all Han land." Liu Yannai explained calmly: "Our army captured Jiankang, and the armies from all walks of life continued to advance to the south. The aristocratic families in various places are still resisting. The war did not end because of the small court's surrender."

In fact, it is really like that. Who made Sima's family, although they are the royal family, they are only a signboard. The south of the Yangtze River has long been the status quo of self-government of clans and aristocratic families.The Han State forced the purchase of land for the aristocratic families, the powerful, and the powerful, and the family members had to be fully registered. If this policy was not changed, there would be local forces that resisted desperately.

"Fortunately for the Han Dynasty, the surrender of the small court made him lose his righteousness, and the people yearned for him because of the national policy of the Han Dynasty, and the families and powerful people from all over the world failed to get more support." Liu Yan pondered for a while, and continued: "That's the case, General Yi Zhengnan reported that it will take time for the big man to completely wipe out those disobedient forces."

Xu Zheng is still his general who conquers the South, responsible for commanding the army to eliminate any dissatisfaction. The deep-rooted power of the Han family only needs to target dissatisfied aristocratic families and powerful people. The further south it becomes, the more complicated it becomes. Zhuyue and Zhuman.

As a staunch believer in Han nationalism, Liu Yan wants to solve the problems of Zhuyue and Zhuman that have plagued the Han nation for thousands of years at one time, complete the great cause that the first emperor failed to accomplish, and bring Zhuyue and Zhuman together. Killing, merging, and expelling all of them, but this will definitely take longer. How long it will take depends purely on how resilient Zhu Yue and Zhu Barbarians are.

Ran Min is extremely unwilling!First, Huan Wen destroyed the Li family and became Han, and then Xu Zheng destroyed the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He didn't think that Huan Wen, Wen Wen and Xu Zheng were braver or more powerful than himself, but he, who was the most powerful, had not yet been able to complete the task of destroying Shijie Zhao. Great merit, but it seems that because the center wants to cultivate health and restore national strength, it seems that the destruction of Shijie Zhao will be delayed again?
"The widow has already ordered that those who take the heads of other races will still be rewarded for their merits." Liu Yan was talking about the continuation of the order to kill the Hulu. The north can kill the Hulu, and the south can also kill Zhuyue and Zhuman. He comforted Ran Min and said: " This measure will speed up the progress of the war."

The hunting order against the south is Liu Yan's way out for ordinary people who have lived under the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty for a long time. It depends on whether the people in the south have the courage to hunt for heads.

If you count it seriously, the hunting order in the north has become difficult to achieve. After all, Shihu has retreated with a large number of Hulu, and the Huren in Murong Yan Kingdom are not easy to kill at all.The number of Zhuyue and Zhuman in the south should be about a million. Zhuyue and Zhuman have no country and live scattered in the form of tribes. If you have the courage to hunt and kill, you have the number and the environment, and the harvest will definitely be plentiful.

"I'm afraid there will be more Xiaoguo from the Central Plains rushing to the south..." Ran Min pouted and said, "Prime Minister You wants to equalize the land, and you also need the courage of the southerners."

Liu Yan heard the strong regional discrimination in Ran Min's words.

It is not wrong that there are many brave people in the north, but the south is not all cowardly people. The Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties spent thousands of years fighting in the south, but it is not that they have not been able to defeat them.When the south was returned to China, many places in the south also produced elite soldiers, such as the Tengjia soldiers from the Chu State, the Jiangdong soldiers under the overlord of Western Chu, the Southern Army in the Western Han Dynasty, and the Danyang soldiers in the Eastern Han Dynasty. .

"Of course I don't object to the fact that there are warriors in the south, but that's probably in the past." Ran Min said without prejudice: "The small imperial court has ruled the south for too long, and it has not been able to lead troops to restore the Central Plains. Tens of thousands of southern troops often attack thousands of Hulu And a big defeat. Any army that can fight the Hulu will take the soldiers who fled from the south to the north."

Liu Yan doesn't understand contemporary history, so he can't refute Ran Min.What's more, it seems to be the same thing in his memory. Among the armies of the small imperial court in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in history, those formed by recruiting young men who fled from the north were not at all afraid of the Hulu, and the Beifu army was the most aggressive.

Of course, there are raging generals and raging soldiers. What kind of people can bring out what kind of army. What can be tested depends on how the generals train and control the army. The southern army after the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has not always been Then the dishes.

In fact, Ran Min wanted to persuade Liu Yan to continue to attack Shijie Zhao Guo forcefully, but in the middle of the conversation, he changed the subject, and after setting up a banquet, he was still pestering whether the people in the south could muster up the courage to hunt and kill in exchange for meritorious deeds, waiting for a drink Ning Ting was so drunk that he didn't bring up the subject.

As for Ran Min, who is ambitious and brave but doesn't know how to twist and turn, Liu Yan deliberately dragged the topic and procrastinated. He had to calm down Ran Min first, and he couldn't let this fierce general with a negative political IQ offend even more many people.

Sure enough, Ran Min, who was so drunk and unconscious, was carried away, and not long after, Ji Chang and Sang Yu came together.

"General Zheng Bei left the army without a call, the king should be punished!" Ji Chang had no enmity with Ran Min, and he didn't seem to hate Ran Min. He said solemnly: "If you are a general, you can leave without a call. Where is the law?"

Liu Yan ignored Ji Chang, but ordered someone to tidy it up, bring a new table and put tea-making utensils on it.

"Of course the punishment should be punished." Sang Yu added with a smile: "General Zhengbei came with only ten cavalry. He disarmed and did not bring weapons to see the king, so he just fined him some salary."

Liu Yan glanced at the two of them, Ji Chang's demand for punishment may not be malicious, and Sang Yu's intercession may not be good.

The three of them brewed tea and drank. During the process, Ji Chang and Sang Yu were talking, Liu Yan smiled lightly and said nothing, and several people came from behind, and it became a night conversation between the monarch and his ministers.

"Your Majesty, if you attack a land to measure the land, and collect people to register and make a book, the land in the south can be measured in the next three years, and the people in the south can be used for taxation." Lu Yi stroked his beard with a smile, and said: "The big man has added more money. How to use the land of the state still needs to be considered.”

"Since the First Emperor, the south has belonged to China, but has not been developed for hundreds of years. This situation should end in the present day." Cai Youcai is the person in charge of national construction. He knows why Lu Yi said what he said: "The land of several prefectures in the Central Plains The plotting of people has never stopped, and the southern Zhangtu plotting against people... is very short of manpower."

Land surveying and population registration seem simple, and it is not difficult to do it, but it requires a huge number of people.The Han Dynasty regained several states in the Central Plains. After Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Xuzhou worked for two years to complete. Jizhou, Yuzhou, Sizhou and other places actually started to work.

There have been a lot of vacancies in central positions in the Han Dynasty all year round. Many of the local officials in some counties and counties are trying to catch up. None of the people who are pushed out are ordinary people, or at least they are from local rich families.The reason for this is extremely simple. Being an official requires reviewing official documents. It is difficult to be an official if you are not literate, but it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to become literate.

Veterans in the army can serve as some positions in townships, villages, and pavilions, and it is not difficult to create officials at the grassroots level.Most of the land measurement and population registration are done by retired soldiers, and at least one county-level official is responsible for coordinating.

"Ahem." Sang Yu attracted everyone's attention, and said to Liu Yan cautiously: "Your Majesty, the country should have a system for selecting talents and talents, and select more outstanding talents for the king and the great man." Talent is an official."

In the past, the officials of the Han Dynasty were basically selected by self-recommendation and rumors, which was very similar to the filial piety and honesty system of the Western Han and Eastern Han.

Liu Yan was very interested and asked: "How to choose talents and abilities?"

Everyone was looking at Sang Yu, some were looking forward to it, and some were frowning in displeasure.

The way a country chooses officials is related to the future political direction of a country. What has changed a bit is whether the official class will be fixed, just like in the pre-Qin period, Lao Tzu was whatever his son was, and later the Western Han and Eastern Han families ruled the world. , In the Cao Wei period, it became monopolized by officials, and in the Western Jin and Eastern Jin Dynasties, the pattern of "born with seeds" was restored again.

"Your Majesty." Ji Chang said without giving Sang Yu a chance to explain, "Tonight we will only talk about romance and not state affairs."

Liu Yan immediately smiled meaningfully.

(End of this chapter)