The Jagged Empire of Daqin

"Long live Your Majesty! Long live Great Qin! Long live! Long live! Long live!"

All the ministers shouted with joy on their faces, venting their refreshment.

"Haha!" Ying Chang couldn't help laughing.

"Hahaha!"

In the main hall, the laughter of the emperors and ministers of the Great Qin Dynasty is full, and the solemn and sacred Qilin Palace is full of joyful and happy atmosphere.

Chou Yixiao, who hadn't gone far, felt piercing when he heard the laughter, and the speed of leaving the palace also accelerated.

After a period of time, the Great Qin Empire announced to the world, announcing the truce between Qin and Jin, and the return of the Jin Empire to Hebei County, Hedong County, Huainan County, and Nanyang County. Sell ​​a jug of wine to celebrate, but there is a shortage of food in Daqin, and wine has become priceless in the market. The price of wine, which can be bought for ten yuan, has increased by more than ten times.

At the same time, Yingchang also ordered the release of the Jin officials. The Jin officials who were building canals for the Great Qin learned that they could leave, and each of them shed tears excitedly, while the Jin army prisoners of war were extremely envious, thinking that they could go back anytime.

Time flies by, day by day, when Qiu Yixiao returned to the Jin Empire, he asked people to return the household registration of the four counties to Qin. At the same time, the news of the Qin-Jin truce and the return of the Jin Empire to the Qin Empire also spread throughout the Great Jin Empire .

"Oh! God help Qin Ye!"

"One day, this humiliation will be washed away with blood!"

"Haven't you woken up yet? Why did my Dajin fall into such a field? It wasn't because of the faint king who insisted on destroying the good of Qin and Jin. Now that our Dajin has become like this, it's all self-inflicted, and we deserve it!"

"What are you talking about? Are you from Jin? How can you say that about Your Majesty!"

"I am, of course I am. Jin people should value love and righteousness instead of stabbing a knife in the back. What did the Qin Empire do wrong before? Why did we beat them, why did we destroy them? Isn't peace between Qin and Jin good? "

"Yeah, yeah, it's all our fault!"

"You have to admit what you did wrong, Yan Zhao Fa Jin is our punishment!"

"You...hey~"

The Great Jin Empire suffered heavy losses, waking up a small number of Jin citizens, and let these Jin people know the mistakes made by the Jin Empire, and also admitted that the Jin Empire deserved to be beaten. It is wise, Qin is immortal, Jin is in danger, and also believes that the Jin Empire was attacked by Yan Zhao because the Jin Empire threatened them.

Instead of admitting their mistakes, they vowed to wash their shame with blood.

.....

Five months later, it was July [-]th in the tenth year of Shengqin.

After five months, the residence registration of the four counties returned by the Jin Empire finally reached the Qin Empire, and the Great Qin Empire no longer had to worry about the household registration. At the same time, the household officials who went to the four counties and the Qi Empire to buy grain also returned to Xianyang.

500 million taels of silver, spent 150 million in the four counties, bought 100 million shi of grain, spent 350 million in the Qi Empire, bought 200 million shi of grain, a total of 300 million shi of grain, according to the market price, one tael of silver for one stone , but 500 million two bought 300 million stones.

This is not because officials from the household department have been corrupted, but because prices have risen.

Merchants seek profit, whether it is Qin merchants or Qi merchants, they have slightly raised the price of grain, but fortunately the increase is not very high, the court can accept it, and Qin merchants only raised prices unilaterally against the court, and ordinary people still follow the price increase. usual market price.

The imperial court was not outraged by Qin Shang's behavior. After all, businessmen also wanted to make money, and the increase was reasonable.

With the purchased grain, the treasury of the Great Qin Empire has 470 million shi of grain, 470 million taels of silver, and 5 taels of gold.

Great Qin Empire, Xianyang City, Imperial Palace, Qilin Palace!

"Your Majesty, the Ordnance Department has recruited a total of [-] craftsmen in the past five months. At present, the Ordnance Department has [-] craftsmen. At the same time, the Ordnance Department has created a thousand sets of heavy cavalry equipment. Now the three thousand heavy With [-] cavalry equipped, it is estimated that the entire heavy cavalry can be equipped in only five months!"

In the main hall, the civil servants were on the left, and Yang Ze, Minister of the Ministry of War, walked out of the queue and reported to Ying Chang on the high platform with a respectful expression.

"I see!" Ying Chang nodded in satisfaction.

After May will be the third anniversary of the founding of the Heavy Cavalry. In three years, the Great Qin Heavy Cavalry will finally be available.

At this time, Jia Luo, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, walked out of the queue of civil servants, and reported to Ying Chang with a respectful face: "Report to Your Majesty, I have something to report!"

"Quasi-playing!" Ying Chang said in a soft voice with a calm face.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Households has calculated through the household registration of the four counties. The total population of the four counties is 270 million, and the fertile land is 340 million mu, of which Hebei County has a population of 40, and the fertile land is 60 mu, and Hedong County has a population of 80, and the fertile land is 100 million mu. , Huainan County has a population of 85, with 110 million acres of fertile land, and Nanyang County has a population of 65, with 80 acres of fertile land!"

"In addition to counting the population of fertile land in the four counties, Shangyang County, Hexi County, and Guangfeng County also carried out statistics. The total population of the three counties is 80, a sharp drop of 180 from last year, and the fertile land reached 12 million mu, an increase of 30 mu from last year. Among them, Hexi County has a population of 50, with 20 mu of fertile land, Shangyang County has a population of 66, with 30 mu of fertile land, Guangfeng County has a population of 64, and has [-] mu of fertile land!"

"Five months ago, His Majesty recruited 30 soldiers in the four counties of Hebei, Hedong, Huainan, and Nanyang. Therefore, the population of 30 was subtracted. After subtracting these 30, the total population of the seven counties of Daqin is 320 million, and the fertile land is 520 million mu!"

"The total population is 320 million, children account for 96% of about 96, young adults account for 120% of about 58, the elderly account for 38% of about [-] million, of which [-]% are young and middle-aged women about [-], and males are about [-] !"

"520 million mu!"

"There are still 38 young and strong. As long as we are willing, the strength of Daqin will reach 70!"

"Before the late Emperor died, our Great Qin Empire had a population of 400 million. As long as we wanted to, we could expand our military strength by one million. Our Great Qin still has a long way to go, at least to catch up with the late Emperor when he was at the peak of his rule!"

"Yes, next we will quickly restore the population, and restore the peak of the Great Qin Dynasty!"

"In terms of fertile land, we have broken through 500 million people. At this point, we are at the peak in the history of the Great Qin Dynasty, but there is still a long way to go in terms of population and source of troops!"

"Let's encourage each other!"

After hearing these words, all the ministers had different expressions, some were surprised, some sighed.

It is not easy for Daqin to come to this point.

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Chapter 229 Return of Household Registration, Return in Installments

"I said at the beginning that this year's total fertile land will definitely reach 500 million mu. If you have time to go home, dear friends, please pay homage to the Great Jin of the East to express your gratitude!" Ying Chang said with a smile on his face.

"Hahaha!"

All the ministers were amused by Ying Chang's last words.

Yes, I really want to pay my respects. I am very grateful to Dajin, the 'ally'.

"Your Majesty, the minister has already arranged for the installment return you mentioned. A total of 35 POWs over the age of [-] will be selected!" Jiang Haiyou, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, stood out of the queue of civil servants and bowed respectfully to report.

Repaying in installments...

Upon hearing this word, many ministers couldn't help but smile.

Your Majesty is too bad, 23 prisoners of war are divided into 23 quarters, and [-] will be returned in each quarter. I don't know how Your Majesty came up with such a sinister, ah bah, such a perfect way to return.

In this way, Daqin not only kept his promise, but also ensured that the canal project would not stop, killing two birds with one stone.

Regarding the method of repaying people in installments, Ying Chang can only say silently in his heart, modern wisdom is awesome!

"Well, I got it!" Ying Chang nodded indifferently, then got up lazily and let out a sigh of relief.

"Retire!" Tang Hua shouted at the ministers.

"Your Majesty is being sent off respectfully, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

Respectfully sent off by all the officials, Ying Chang walked down the high platform and left the Qilin Hall from the back hall. After Ying Chang left, all the officials walked together one after another, leaving the solemn and sacred Qilin Hall one after another.

After half an hour!

The east gate of Xianyang City!

At the gate of the east city, several officers and soldiers stood guarding the city gate with swords. On the outer side of the city gate, a group of guards in dark blue armor lined up. The dark blue white crane is wearing a dark blue official hat, with a red ribbon hanging on each side of the official hat. The leader is Qiu Yixiao, the prime minister of the Jin Empire.

This trip to Qin, one is to return the household registration, and the other is to bring the prisoners of war back to Jin!

As for why Qiu Yixiao didn't go to the Qilin Hall, he didn't want to be ashamed, he knew that the Qilin Hall would be filled with the joy of Qin's monarch and ministers, so if he went, wouldn't he be asking for humiliation.

After about a period of time, there were crowds of people in front of the east gate. Seeing this, Qiu Yixiao couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately led his guards to greet him. The prisoner was in front of him, and Jiang Haiyou, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, was in charge of escorting the prisoner.

As soon as Jiang Haiyou left the palace, he went outside the city to attract the prisoners of war. He wanted to hand over the prisoners of war to Qiu Yixiao with his own hands, and at the same time explained why there were only [-] prisoners of war.

When Qiu Yixiao approached, he realized that the number of prisoners of war was a bit wrong, too few.

At this time, Jiang Haiyou came to Qiu Yixiao with hundreds of imperial guards, just as Jiang Haiyou jumped off his horse, Qiu Yixiao pointed to the 23 prisoners behind Jiang Haiyou and said, "May I ask, there are [-] people here? "

Jiang Haiyou shook his head, saluted with a smile on his face and replied: "Master Qiu, there is no 23, only [-]!"

Qiu Yixiao frowned, feeling a lot of premonitions in his heart, "What do you mean? Your Qin Empire wants to break the contract?"

"I, from Qin, keep my promise!" Jiang Haiyou replied calmly.

"Then what does this mean? You clearly agreed to return all the prisoners of war, but why only [-] is returned? Isn't this a breach of contract? Could it be that you, the Qin Empire, deceived me that the Jin Dynasty has no soldiers?" Qiu Yixiao looked angry, his eyes Blushing stared at Jiang Haiyou, the young minister.

"Haha!" Jiang Haiyou smiled indifferently, "My Great Qin has never bullied the weak like a certain country, and my Great Qin treats other countries with benevolence!"

The words full of sarcasm entered Chou Yixiao's ears, making Chou Yixiao angry and ashamed, gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "If I had known this, Da Jin would never hand over his household registration even if he conquered the entire empire!"

"Don't be anxious, Prime Minister Qiu. Let me just listen to my explanation. The reason why I returned the [-] yuan is because the warriors of your country fell in love with our beautiful mountains and rivers in Daqin and didn't want to leave. It took me a lot of saliva to convince me The warriors of the Wangui Kingdom have returned to Jin, so Qiu Xiang has to give me some time to persuade them?" Jiang Haiyou explained with a smile on his face.

"Shameless!" Qiu Yixiao couldn't help but curse immediately, his face flushed red with anger.

He originally thought that he was shameless enough, but it turned out that there were people more shameless than himself.

What loves the beautiful mountains and rivers of Daqin, what doesn't want to leave, it's all fart!

"Chou Xiang, don't be angry. I will try my best to persuade these 23 warriors of your country. How about this? How about returning the 23 warriors of your country in 23 quarters?" Jiang Haiyou said on his face. Always smiling.

Seeing this kind of smile in Qiu Yixiao's eyes, he wished to tear Jiang Haiyou's stinky face off.

"Are you kidding me? In the 23rd quarter, three months in the first quarter, wouldn't it take five years to fully repay it? No, absolutely not, the Great Jin Empire does not accept this kind of restitution!" Qiu Yixiao's chest heaved violently and his whole body trembled with anger.

Not to mention five years, he can't wait for one year. The ghost knows whether Daqin will send troops to destroy Jin in one year, and whether the Yanzhao army will make a comeback. Without these 23 prisoners of war, no matter which country invades, the Jin Empire will be destroyed. They are powerless to resist.

"Isn't Prime Minister Qiu embarrassing this official? It took me five months to convince these ten thousand noble warriors. How about Prime Minister Qiu being considerate of this official?" Jiang Haiyou said.

"I have never seen such a brazen person before!" Qiu Yixiao scolded angrily.

"How can Prime Minister Qiu say that this official is shameless? It's not that I don't want to let people go, it's because they don't want to return to Jin Dynasty. This official and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty are also very helpless about this. Don't worry, Prime Minister Qiu, the 23 prisoners of war will definitely be killed." If you return it, Prime Minister Qiu can just wait in Jinling!" Jiang Haiyou said with a rather helpless expression.

"Haha!" Chou Yixiao sneered, "Yes, it will definitely be returned, but it will take five years to pay it back, it is really shameless!"

"Give me a quick word from Prime Minister Qiu, do you want these [-] prisoners of war or not? I'm busy with business, so I don't want to talk nonsense with Prime Minister Qiu!" Jiang Haiyou looked impatient.

Seeing Jiang Haiyou's fearless and impatient look, he hated it with a smile, it was too much hate.

"Okay, okay, okay!" Chou Yixiao shouted three times with an angry face, "Today's humiliation will be repaid a hundredfold by the truth!"

After finishing speaking, Qiu Yixiao left with a hundred guards and ten thousand prisoners of war, accompanied by hundreds of imperial guards, who were in charge of guarding the ten thousand prisoners of war to prevent them from making trouble.

Although hundreds of people guarding tens of thousands of people is a bit ridiculous, but this is Qin land, they are unarmed, and they were beaten and surrendered by the soldiers of the Great Qin. They are afraid of the soldiers of the Great Qin from the bottom of their hearts, so hundreds of people are enough to deter [-] prisoners of war.

Jiang Haiyou watched Qiu Yixiao leave with the prisoners of war, and shook his head with distressed expression, ten thousand labor force is gone.

Chapter 230 The Qiang people have no solution?

It seems that the remaining prisoners of war must be squeezed, otherwise the prisoners of war will be gone, and the water conservancy project in Shangyang County is not over yet.

At noon, the Royal Study Room!

On the imperial case, three meat and two vegetables, a pot of fine wine, Ying Chang was alone holding a jade bowl and chopsticks to eat and drink. Although the treasury was not rich, Ying Chang never treated his stomach badly. Ying Chang has never resisted these delicacies.

step..step..

There was a sound of light footsteps, and Ying Chang raised his eyes subconsciously, and saw Tang Hua walking cautiously. When Tang Hua walked three steps away from the imperial case, he stopped and bowed respectfully. Said: "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister and Jia Shangshu are already waiting outside the hall!"

Ying Chang put down the jade bowl and chopsticks, picked up a mouth towel to wipe off the oil stains on the corners of his mouth, and then said, "Let them in!"

Tang Hua nodded to show that he understood, turned around and walked out of the hall. After a while, Jia Luo and Chang Zifei walked in with great strides.

"My minister Chang Zifei (Jia Luo) pays his respects to Your Majesty, long live my emperor!" Chang Zifei and Jia Luo bowed down respectfully and saluted.

"Have the two lovers ever had lunch?" Ying Chang asked.

"Never!"

"Never!"

Chang Zifei and Jia Luo replied respectfully.

"Tang Hua, add two sets of tableware!" Ying Chang said to Tang Hua.

"Of order!" Tang Hua nodded, and then cast a look at the maid beside her, who nodded to show her understanding.

After a while, the court lady came over with a wooden tray containing two sets of silver bowls and chopsticks. Chang Zifei and Jia Luo bent over to receive the tableware and went to the imperial case to enjoy the imperial meal together. The two are not polite at all, and treat this place as their own home.

"How about it, the food in the palace matches the taste of the two lovers, right?"

"This taste should only be found in the sky. To be able to eat a bite of imperial food is really a blessing for eight lifetimes!"

"It's full of color, fragrance and taste, it's worthy of imperial cuisine!"

The three of them ate and drank together, talking and laughing, and the relationship between the emperor and his ministers of the Great Qin Empire was clear at a glance.

After a period of eating and drinking, Ying Chang ordered Tang Hua to remove the food.

Yingchang wiped the corners of his mouth again with a mouth towel. After wiping, he looked at Jia Luo and asked, "How is the current situation of the Qiang people?"

Jia Luo and Chang Zifei first took three steps back to keep a distance from Yingchang, then Jia Luo bowed down solemnly and wrote back: "Your Majesty, the Kama tribe is proud of our Great Qin Iron Artifact, which has greatly increased its strength and cost two In [-], the White Wolf tribe, the overlord of the southern grassland, was finally wiped out and occupied the entire territory of the southern Tuumuqi grassland, and now the Kama tribe has occupied the two major grasslands, and they are truly the strongest overlords of the Qiang people!"