Although there is a cell in Wuji City, the defense is not tight. It is okay to deal with some petty thieves, but it is not enough to deal with professional spies like Chokama. Therefore, Chokama and the others and those of Great Qin
All women were escorted to Chang'an. However, Serika's status was too special, and Liu Xin did not dare to put them together, so he specially allocated 3,000 cavalry to send him to Chang'an overnight, and notified military stations along the way to prepare him.
Make sure nothing goes wrong. If someone intercepts you or Serica wants to escape, you can kill her on the spot.
By the time Serika was taken away, it was almost noon, and the weather was getting hotter. Liu Xin also lost the leisure to visit Wuji City. After calming down, Liu Xin also began to reflect on the experience of being away from Chang'an and marching in person.
Whether his behavior was appropriate or not. But he quickly forgave himself. Kang Ju had clues about his woman anyway, and this woman probably gave birth to a child for him. He could not abandon his woman and child regardless of the passionate blood.
The latest chapter of Time. The ancients said that if you don’t sweep one house, how can you sweep the world. If Liu Xin can’t even protect his own women and children, how can he protect thousands of ordinary people? Thinking of this, Liu Xin felt relieved
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In the afternoon, Jia Xu rushed over from Qiuci. He came here with the intention of reporting to Liu Xin the various situations in the Western Region Protectorate. Unexpectedly, after hearing about Serika, he frowned and said
: "Your Majesty's handling of this situation is inappropriate."
Liu Xin was relatively able to accept different opinions. He did not express any displeasure with Jia Xu's objections, but asked humbly: "In Wen He's opinion, how should we deal with it?"
Jia Xu thought for a moment and said: "I have been in the Western Regions for a long time and know that Da Qin is a powerful country in the West. Serika's status in Da Qin should be equivalent to that of our Han cabinet minister. Such an important person disappeared in the Western Regions. Da Qin
He will definitely not give up. If they send someone to ask for it, how will His Majesty respond? You ordered his hand tendons and hamstrings to be severed!"
Liu Xin thought for a while and said: "It's easy. Selika came to the Western Region quietly and is not an upright messenger. Since he concealed his identity, it is none of my business even if he dies here."
Jia Xu said worriedly: "Your Majesty, Da Qin is a powerful country, not comparable to the small countries around it. Moreover, I have heard that the people of Da Qin are very warlike!"
In fact, Jia Xu is not a person who likes to talk much. Historically, he would only come out to offer advice during the very critical summer vacation. Keeping a low profile is actually a kind of self-protection. His reputation is too revealing and his achievements are too great to attract people.
A fatal disaster. But he is now the protector of the Western Region. If a war breaks out between the Han and Qin due to Serika's incident, the Western Region will be the first to bear the brunt. He must take responsibility for the safety and stability here.
Liu Xin shook his head and said: "The Qin Dynasty is a powerful country, and our Han Dynasty is not weak either. Compromising can only buy temporary peace, but it cannot buy a lifetime of peace. Serika's ambition is already born, if you let him go,
On the contrary, it will cause the people of Great Qin to look down upon our Han people, which will probably lead to war. I don’t want to go to war with Great Qin, but if Great Qin dares to invade, I will make sure they never come back!"
Seeing that Liu Xin had made up his mind, Jia Xu turned to report on the situation in the Western Regions. Due to the reopening of trade routes, earth-shaking changes had taken place in the Western Regions in just one year, and Liu Xin had seen all these changes along the way. But
There are also things that Liu Xin doesn't know, and these are the key points that Jia Xu reported.
Most of the kings and people in the Western Regions supported returning to the rule of the Han Dynasty. After all, the benefits were there, and their lives seemed to be getting better day by day. However, some nobles felt that their power had been weakened, so they incited the people who did not know the truth.
, clamoring to break away from the rule of the Han Dynasty and regain independence. In order to maintain the stability of the Western Regions, Jia Xu has always adopted a tolerant strategy.
Liu Xin couldn't help but think of some separatist forces in later generations, but in this era, Islam had not yet emerged, and there were no slogans such as jihad. The nobles' independence was purely based on their own selfish interests. Liu Xin did not think it was so difficult.
In response, he couldn't help but waved his hands and said: "We cannot tolerate these people. We can only take resolute and decisive measures to crack down on them! I authorize you that in the future, if anyone clamors to break away from the rule of the Han Dynasty, their homes will be confiscated!"
In fact, Jia Xu was also quarreled by those nobles. He didn't want to take action. It was just that the matter was so important that he didn't dare to make his own opinions. Now that he had Liu Xin's promise, Jia Xu immediately took it out of his arms.
He came out with a list, raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty, please see, these twenty people are the ones causing the most trouble."
Liu Xin glanced at the list and said, "Are these people powerful from the Western Regions?"
Jia Xu nodded and said, "Yes, they are all powerful men from the Western Regions."
Liu Xin nodded and said: "If there are no ordinary people, it will be easier to handle. Confiscate all the property of these people, behead the men who are taller than a wheel in the street, and use the women and children as slaves. The crime is treason!"
The Han people rarely used these methods in the past, and only Liu Xin would use them when dealing with the nomads on the grasslands. Of course, the Han people also used many tortures, and would also engage in the practice of implicating three tribes and nine tribes, but these powerful men from the Western Regions were noisy.
Still just talking and not taking action, Jia Xu didn't expect Liu Xin to go on a killing spree, so he couldn't help being shocked and said: "Your Majesty, is this punishment too severe?"
Liu Xin waved her hand and said: "Everything must be nipped in the bud. They are just noisy. If you don't be ruthless, I'm afraid they will raise their flag to rebel in a short time. There are always a few rich and handsome people who have no eyesight. I
We will never allow every inch of the Han Dynasty to be divided, nor will anyone be allowed to leak the secrets of the Han Dynasty, but anyone who does this will be punished with treason!"
Jia Xu sighed, put the list back in his arms, cupped his hands and said, "I'm afraid that this will trigger a civil uprising, so please think twice!"
"Which of these nobles has a clean butt? After you arrest them, don't rush to kill them. Give them a trial first, and then make their charges public. Then look, how many common people will follow them?
Liu Xin waved her hand disapprovingly and suddenly asked, "Wen He, are there any officials in the Western Region Protectorate who stay in brothels at night?"
Jia Xu's face couldn't help but blush, and he said calmly: "Your Majesty, most of the officials and their families are not here. It is inevitable that I can't bear the loneliness. It is human nature to visit a brothel. Could it be that your Majesty..."
"Wen He, I'm afraid you won't miss it." Liu Xin laughed, and suddenly said seriously, "Qiao Kama, the spy of the Qin Dynasty, has a plan to get secrets from our Han officials by opening a brothel, but we must guard against this.
!I want to do a pilot project in the Western Region. The family members of the more than 20 people on your list will all serve as official prostitutes. From now on, officials above the seventh rank of the Western Region Protectorate are not allowed to go to private brothels, and can only recruit official prostitutes!
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Prostitutes are a very old profession. Although prostitutes were not banned in the Han Dynasty, there were a small number of official prostitutes in the past, but they were mainly engaged in folk arts performances, which were a kind of performing arts without selling one's body. Now Liu Xin actually publicly asked Jia Xu to open something similar to a brothel.
Jia Xu was dumbfounded by raising official prostitutes. But Liu Xin understood that these officials who were far away from home also had their own practical needs. It was not something you could ban just because you wanted to. He could only set up a way to guide them.
However, Liu Xin is not sure yet about the effect of this.
Every move of these powerful people from the Western Regions has long been under Jia Xu's control. He only needs to follow the map to search for Ji, and he will soon have them captured. No one can escape the net. As a result, after checking, there is really something wrong with these powerful people from the Western Regions. They are not robbing them.
If a man dominates a woman, he will bear human life. If they are all executed, some may be unjustly convicted, but if one is killed for every two people, there will definitely be no wrongful conviction.
What makes Jia Xu even more unexpected is that after these people's female relatives were used as official prostitutes, the number of officials visiting private brothels naturally decreased, but the greater impact was on other people. The words and deeds of many officials and powerful people
Everyone has become more cautious, not only in those who rebel against the court, but also in the number of people who commit crimes. After all, these powerful officials are familiar with each other, but now they see the wives and daughters of their former friends or colleagues ending up like this,
And we can meet often, so who dares not to be secretly vigilant. Of course, these are all things for later, so I won’t mention them for now.
In the evening, another battle report came from Chang'an, and Ma Yun really thought of dispatching the Fifth Army Corps to go north.
On this day, Cao Jun's offensive became more and more fierce. Corpses piled up like mountains in Hulao Pass and blood flowed into rivers. There were more than 3,000 casualties in Hulao Pass, and probably ten times as many in Hulao Pass. General Wenpin had been sent to Hulao Pass. However,
, if Cao Jun continues to attack like this regardless of casualties, no one can say how many days Hulao Pass can hold on.
In this case, it is urgent to attract Cao Jun's attention to reduce the pressure on Hulao Pass. In fact, even if Hulao Pass is broken, it will be very difficult for Cao Cao to attack Chang'an because there is a stronger Han Dynasty there.
Gu Pass. But Ma Yun didn't want the Luoyang City that she had worked so hard to build to fall into the hands of Cao Cao, so she issued an order to defend Hulao Pass at all costs.
At this time, Yuan's army, which was besieged a hundred miles south of Yecheng, under the command of General Qu Yi, calmly responded to the battle. Xu Huang was unable to divide his troops and go south for a while. In order to achieve the goal of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, he could only mobilize the fifth army to go north.
The Fifth Army was responsible for the defense of the south of the Yangtze River, and had not dared to use this army in order to prevent Cao Cao from taking advantage of the situation and destroying the peace of the south of the Yangtze River. In desperation, Ma Yun thought of the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, so she sent troops to Yangzhou and Jiaozhou.
The Han navy trained along the coast was redeployed to the Yangtze River. With the Han navy patrolling the Yangtze River day and night, Cao and Yuan's second army, who were not used to water warfare, had absolutely no chance of going south, and the fifth army could move north with confidence.
However, after discussing with Jushou, Tian Feng, Guo Jia and others, Ma Yun made a major decision to abandon the three counties of Jiujiang, Lujiang and Runan when necessary. For this reason, Ma Yun has sent people to
Qiao Xuan's family was taken to Chang'an.
At the end of the battle report, Ma Yun also mentioned that Gan Ning's navy made a major discovery during training.