Cao Cao killed many people, including officials, nobles, powerful men, merchants, knights, and thieves. In less than two months, he ordered the execution of more than 6,000 people.
The scoldings after the eunuchs resumed, completely drawing a clear line with the scholar group.
Liu Xiang knew that he was handing in his name, and he was following the path of his relatives, never looking back.
I also know why he acts so impatiently and violently.
General of the Conquest of the West!
This was Lao Cao's dream when he was young.
It is almost the end of December, spring is about to begin, and the Western Expedition is about to begin. It is time to appoint a general for the Western Expedition.
The Western Expedition Army has been established for several months, but the general has never been appointed. Liu Xiang is hesitating, Lao Cao is fighting for it, and Sun Jian's political sense is a bit bad. He clearly knows that the 60,000 Western Expedition Army is short of a general, but he has done nothing. I guess
It is believed that this position will be chosen among the generals of the Chinese Army.
"If you want to choose from the generals of the Chinese army, you won't have these many days vacant." Cao Cao was discussing matters with Cheng Yu.
"My lord, you are saying that Grand Sima will entrust the 60,000-strong army to the foreign general?" Cheng Yu wondered in his heart, with the 60,000-strong army, aren't you afraid that the foreign general will rebel?
Cao Cao laughed at himself: "What a foreign general, he is just a subordinate. Not to mention the checks and balances of various departments in the Western Expeditionary Army, he also appointed many military officials who are loyal to the Grand Sima. It is difficult for the general to fully control.
Even if he can really conquer all the tribes, does Zhongde think he will be afraid of a mere 60,000 troops surrendering? Haha, don't have such thoughts, otherwise your whole clan will die. As long as Liu Yicheng is around, no one in the army will dare to rebel."
"Da Sima is indeed very famous, but it's not like that, right?"
"It is not surprising that Zhongde has never been deeply involved in the army and does not know the thoughts of the soldiers. Most of the soldiers in the army volunteer to join the army. They have enough food and clothing, fish and meat, and sufficient military pay. Their families divide the fields and buy land. Such extravagant expenses,
It is to nourish the military spirit.
Coupled with the strict law enforcement and reciting military regulations every day, there were even more killings in the past few days. With the combination of kindness and power, the military's morale has been subdued, and no one can shake his prestige in the military."
Cheng Yu sighed with a complicated mood. Grand Sima was tired of him. He was afraid that it would be difficult for him to become an official in this life. He could only live in the world as an aide and retainer. He was very unwilling to do so.
"My lord has great ambitions, how can he live in depression for so long?"
"He is only twenty-four years old, and I am already thirty-eight." Cao Cao sighed.
He was nearly forty years old, and he could be considered an old man in the Han Dynasty. After all, the average age in the Han Dynasty was less than thirty years old. Every time he saw Liu Xiang, he would have a feeling that he was old.
Cheng Yu placed all his wealth and honor on Cao Cao, and did not want to see his lord in despair, so he leaned forward and whispered: "The great Sima has no son."
"Shut up." Cao Cao scolded: "If you don't want to die, just put away those thoughts."
How could he not understand Cheng Yu's thoughts? But the situation was over and we had to comply with God's will.
"Being a general who conquers the West is enough for me."
Facing Liu Xiang, he often felt powerless, a little worried, and did not dare to get up again, but he was not willing to hide his talents and bide his time and return to his hometown.
All in all, I feel very complicated.
At this time, Liu Xiang's mood was also very complicated. There were deaths in the palace, more than four hundred of them.
Pregnant.
He was sentenced to death by the female minister.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the titles of the six palaces were only queen, noble, beauties, palace people, and maidens, which were much omitted compared to the Western Han Dynasty.
The queens of the Western Han Dynasty are divided into fourteen levels: Zhaoyi, Jieyu, Jing'e, Huanhua, Chongyi, Beauty, Beloved, Eighth Son, Seventh Son, Long Envoy, Young Envoy, Fifth Palace, Shun Chang, among whom there is no Juan, Gonghe,
Entertaining spirits, protecting forests, good envoys, and night ones are the lowest level.
The system of female officials serving the harem is: female minister, female royal chief, palace chief, female history, female attendant history, female knight, maid, and maid.
At the time of Emperor Ling, there were more than 20,000 maids in the harem. After his death, more than 500 childless concubines left the palace and were placed in the imperial mausoleum to guard the mausoleum. In the past two years, there was a war and chaos. The end of these people is probably not good.
In the middle and late Han Dynasty, the system of burying concubines to death was abolished and the system of keeping concubines in imperial tombs was replaced.
After the Wu Hu rebellion in China, the practice of sacrificial burial was picked up again, and was abolished again in the Sui Dynasty. Then the Mongols took over the Central Plains and started the sacrificial burial system again. The Ming Dynasty also retained this bad custom, and it was not abolished until the late Ming Yingzong, and then later
, the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and there were changes again.
The topic has strayed far away, let’s talk about the palace people in Chang’an.
When Dong Zhuo moved the capital, these palace maids naturally followed him to Chang'an, but this journey was a disaster for them. Those who could be selected into the palace were not too bad-looking. Thousands of people were killed. As for the difficulty, it goes without saying.
Bar.
In the past two years, Old Dong had caused chaos in the palace. After Li Jue and others entered Chang'an, they occupied various palaces. Liangzhou soldiers took great pleasure in the palace.
By the time Liu Xiang took control of Chang'an, the palaces in the city had more than 11,300 people in total, and half of them were gone.
Liu Xiang actually had no right to take care of the death of a pregnant palace maid by the palace's female minister, but he already knew about it and had no choice but to pretend he didn't see it.
According to this method of treatment, how many people will die? Too many people have been harmed, and they cannot resist. It is others who committed the crime, and they should not bear the consequences.
There were very few eunuchs in the palace. He didn't trust the more than 10,000 surviving maids, and he didn't need so many of them. There was really no need to be trapped in the palace, so he might as well use this incident to let them out of the palace.
"He ordered the palace to lay off all servants, recruit maidens to those with families, distribute travel expenses, send messages to pick them up at home, and hire those who had nowhere to go as workers. Mingguang Palace was converted into a weaving workshop and treasury, and the maidens hired were specialized in silk brocades.
Weaving matters.”
Opening up the Silk Road has been planned for a long time. Chang'an is the starting point and the largest commodity manufacturing and distribution center. It is more practical to use a place as big as Mingguang Palace to make money.
Those high-value goods happen to be stored and manufactured here.
He paused and then said: "In addition to the weaving workshop, build a soap workshop and a mint workshop."
There are no good porcelain clay mines around Chang'an, so porcelain can only be transported here from Xing kiln and Cikiln, but silk and soap can be made in Chang'an.
As for coinage, it is because after trade, the demand for coins will inevitably increase greatly, and the copper coins of the Han people are also very profitable commodities. In the foreign trade of the Han, Tang, and Song Dynasties, if you don’t know what business to do, you can bring a fleet of copper coins.
Go to the Western Regions and you will definitely make money without losing money.
For thousands of years, the copper coins of the Han people have been favored by all surrounding countries for their exquisite casting and advanced craftsmanship.
"Zhuge Jin, this matter..." Liu Xiang thought about it for a moment. Zhuge Jin couldn't handle it when it came to the palace, so he changed his mind and said, "Send a letter to Liu Yu, the shepherd of Jizhou, and worship him as a disciple and concurrently as Zongzheng. After receiving the order, he came to Chang'an immediately.
.Appointed Yuan Huan to concurrently serve as the governor of Jizhou."
"We sent an order to Shuihengdu Wei Tian Yu and the engineers to come to Chang'an to prepare for the construction of the Chang'an Mint Workshop."
"Instruct Jingzhao Yin and Zhang He to recruit craftsmen, work hard, and prepare materials after the beginning of spring. The more the better, to prepare for the reconstruction of Chang'an, the construction of water conservancy projects in Sanfu, and the reclamation of wasteland."
The reconstruction of Jianzhang Palace had been decided a long time ago, and Mingguang Palace also had to be renovated. He also wanted to build a large market and warehouse in the north annex of the city to prepare for trade.
Sanfu has a population of more than 1.6 million, but the land is only enough for 7.8 million people to cultivate. He does not want to move the excess labor, but wants to use it to open up wasteland in the Guanzhong Plain.
To support the conquest of the Western Regions and the future Silk Road, food must be transported elsewhere, which is too expensive. Every acre of land opened in Sanfu can save a lot of transportation consumption. This is to
Prepared early.
If we want to open up wasteland on a large scale, build water conservancy projects, and dig rivers and canals, the first step is to do so. People cannot undertake such large projects alone, and they must be organized by the government.
Liu Xiang actually had other plans. He wanted to take the opportunity to train a group of construction workers. This group of people was very important if they could quickly stabilize the trade routes.