Chang'an, Qingliang Hall.

Liu Che lowered his head and looked at the memorial in front of him.

This is the report just sent by the Prime Minister's Office.

"The Loufan army has more than nine thousand riders..."

"Loyal and brave army, more than 13,000 riders..."

"Karasuma Army, more than 8,000 riders..."

In his mind, numbers flashed one by one.

This is a full force of 30,000 cavalry!

The ratio of Han to Hu in these armies was generally a few to one.

Among them, the middle and lower-level officers are basically Han Chinese.

This ensures the reliability and loyalty of these troops.

Moreover, the Han family's brainwashing and propaganda skills have increased significantly recently.

Even Xianbei and Wu Heng, who had just surrendered and surrendered, seemed to be submissive and respectful to the Han family.

As for the Huns’ prisoners of war?

Look at the name they chose for this army!

Loyal and brave army!

You know, at the beginning, Liu Che gave them three choices.

The first is the Qimen Army, the second is the Kunming Army, and the third is the Zhongyong Army.

But in the end, they all asked to use the name Zhongyongjun.

Although Liu Che never went to see that scene in person, he sent his eunuchs to see it.

The eunuch came back and reported: The whole army raised their arms and said: "I will die for your majesty. I am a slave. I am willing to wash away my sins with a loyal and brave heart!"

As for Lou Fanjun, Liu Che was even more relieved.

Although Guan He doesn't have a good reputation, this method is really smooth.

In an understatement, he used a method similar to releasing military power over a glass of wine to send all the nobles in Loufan and Wusun to the valley and into the pile of old papers.

Think about it, how awkward and difficult it is for future generations of foreigners to learn Chinese.

If the difficulty for future generations of foreigners to learn Chinese is increased by ten times, and the degree of awkwardness is increased by dozens of times, it will be almost the same as the difficulty for today's foreigners to learn Chinese culture.

Even if they just learned to read and write common words, it would be enough for those guys to squat in Shanggu City for ten or eight years.

That is, the Wuheng people and Xianbei people are not so reassuring.

But that's okay.

When the Central Plains dynasty was strong and powerful, there was no foreign race that it could not assimilate and influence.

Han culture and civilization also have strong enough charm and strength to make these foreign races willing to become Han people, regard themselves as Han people, and fight for the pride and honor of the Han people.

The Xia ethnic groups and the Han Dynasty also had enough self-confidence and courage to believe and believe that they could indeed assimilate all foreign races.

Even native chickens can play Makmulius and let the Greeks fight the Romans.

It makes no sense. China, which is countless times more advanced and civilized than the local chickens, does not have the confidence and courage to do so.

Put this matter aside for now.

Liu Che moved his gaze to another memorial.

Then, he held his head in pain.

In fact, compared to the Xiongnu, in the eyes of the Han monarchs and ministers, the scholars are now the most difficult problem!

According to reports from the Shaofu, Internal History and Zhijinwu Yamen, this year’s examination of scholars is very likely to break through the 20,000 mark for the first time!

Although probably at least 7,000 of them are twice-cooked pork.

Among these twice-cooked pork, there are young people who have failed in the past, but are still committed to it.

There are also people who did not do well in the exams in the past, and were thrown out of the grassroots level. They could not endure the hardship at the grassroots level, so they left with a bad seal, and then came back to take the exam again.

This kind of thing happened as early as two years ago.

In the Han system, if there is no prohibition by law, there will be no correction.

What they did was not illegal.

Therefore, the relevant departments have no way to stop it.

However, legislators, including Liu Che and other high-ranking officials in the Han Dynasty, did not dare to legislate easily to prohibit scholars from abandoning their official positions and taking exams again.

the reason is simple.

The courtiers cherished feathers, but the emperor Liu Che was concerned about public opinion.

After all, after a young man served as an official for a period of time, he found that his knowledge was too shallow and he felt that he was not enough to serve the emperor and the herdsmen, so he went back to study hard, accumulate knowledge and insights, and then come back to serve the emperor and his father.

As emperors and meat-eating courtiers, how can we blame them for their eagerness to learn and self-examination?

Of course, it would only take half a year, or even three or five months, for someone to leave and come to Chang'an to take the exam.

This is people's freedom.

In the examination hall, isn't it a place where knowledge and knowledge speak for themselves?

Shun Fa was raised in the garden, Fu Shuao was raised in the building, Jiao Ge was raised in the fish and salt, Guan Yiwu was raised in the army, Sun Shuao was raised in the sea, Baili Xi was raised in the city.

A hero does not care where he was born.

A king should be a man of merit!

This matter is just dragging on.

The consequence is that the scale of examinations is getting bigger and bigger every year.

Of course, in fact, compared to twice-cooked pork, the number of emerging scholars is the majority.

In recent years, Liu Che and his ministers have shouted every now and then: The businessman is a bad guy!

However, his body was very honest and took the initiative to loosen many of the shackles that bound the businessman.

Especially three years ago, after the tax laws were enacted.

According to the latest tax laws, merchants whose taxes exceed 100,000 yuan will be relaxed.

This means that you can be allowed to live in areas designated by the government without having to live in areas designated by the government, and you can freely choose your residence.

There are many similar provisions for merchants in tax laws.

This makes the world's commercial economy more and more prosperous.

A large number of small businessmen and middle class people began to become wealthy.

In particular, the gold rush in the Andong Protectorate and the opportunities that came with it led to the rise of tens of thousands of merchants.

Some of these merchants had hundreds of employees and drove more than a dozen carts and several ships from north to south. Some were just one person carrying goods on one shoulder and traveling thousands of miles.

They transported Chinese ironware, tools, and luxury goods to various places in Anton, and then exchanged them for local specialties such as bear skins, deer antlers, gold, and ginseng.

After one trip, the profit will be doubled.

Recently, Liu Che heard that hundreds of big businessmen, including his father-in-law, the Cheng Zheng family and the Zhuo family in Linqiong, had sent important members of their families to the Incheon Port in North Korea to take charge.

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They went there for a very special marine product.

Chen Jiao's whaling business started last summer, and it has been a full year this year.

During this year, Chen Jiaoqian became prosperous.

While catching Japanese slaves, explore the landscape of the Neon Islands.

However, his main focus is on the whales in the ocean.

Last fall, Chen Jiao's whaling team hunted a strange giant whale for the first time.

This giant whale is six to seven feet long and weighs fifty thousand stones!

The fat content is very high, and thousands of stones of whale oil can be extracted. In addition, the whale baleen grown from it is soft and elastic.

Of course, none of the above is the point.

The point is, Chen Jiao's whaling team discovered that this weird giant beast that likes to expose its back to the water swims very slowly, even a sampan can catch up with its speed!

Moreover, after hunting several times, Chen Jiao discovered that this giant beast was not only large in size and slow in swimming speed, but more importantly, this giant beast, one of the best in the ocean, would automatically move after being killed. Floating on the water.

Instead of sinking like the whales killed before.

This made Chen Jiao overjoyed and decided to just stare at this whale and kill it!

What made him even more ecstatic and crazy was that he discovered that the male individual of this giant beast had a huge penis growing inside his body.
To be continued...