In order to maintain the prosperity of the family, these noble families often go to great lengths. When he was in Xiangyang, Cai Mao sent the young Cai Jue to the Prefectural Mufu. Now that Zhen Mi has followed him to Chang'an and entered the palace, will it happen?
Is this a way that the Zhen family came up with for the benefit of the family? Liu Xin couldn't help but frown.
But Zhen Mi stretched out her little hand and said, "Your Majesty, bring me the book you promised me."
Only then did Liu Xin realize that she had overthought it. She couldn't help but laugh and said, "Don't worry, I will never break my promise this time. You can go and get it from Zhao Ji tomorrow."
"Zhao Ji?" Zhen Mi asked with a frown, "Who is Zhao Ji?"
Liu Xin smiled and said: "Zhao Ji is Concubine Cai, and these books are under her control. If you want to read books in the future, just go to her directly." [
While talking, Zhang Gouer had already taken out a white jade token and handed it over reluctantly. You must know that even a manager like him only uses silver tokens, and such a little girl can have it at will.
White jade token. Zhang Gouer did not dare to disobey Liu Xin's order, but took his anger out on the two palace ladies who stayed to take care of Zhen Mi. He woke them up, scolded them severely, and deducted the monthly payment for that month.
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Liu Xin didn't mind Zhang Gou'er trying to play off his prestige as the head of the palace. These eunuchs were physically disabled and would inevitably be psychologically affected. There was nothing wrong with letting them vent occasionally, but it had to be within a controllable range.
However, after this chance encounter one night, Zhen Mi could enter and exit the palace without any worries, and she no longer had to worry about interrogation by guards. The collection of books in Cai Yan's small courtyard almost contained all the books that the entire Han Dynasty could collect, which was enough for her to read.
I couldn't finish it in the past three or five years. But until the Spring Festival came, when it was time for Zhen Mi to return to Yecheng, she never met Liu Xin in the palace again.
Although the Han Dynasty had achieved unification, the territory in the north had become riddled with holes due to war. As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xin had to look like a wise emperor at this time, so he spent most of his time either in the main hall processing memorials,
Or go to Chang'an Street Market to observe the public sentiment, and only return to the harem at night.
Liu Xin has delegated most of his power to the cabinet and the six ministries, which does not mean that he can be a hands-off boss. Every order issued by the cabinet and the six ministries will be sent to Liu Xin. If it involves some sensitive issues, a copy will be sent to Liu Xin.
, even within their scope of authority, they would first ask Liu Xin for his opinion.
Liu Xin will carefully review every memorial submitted by the cabinet. In Liu Xin's words, precisely because power has been delegated to them, supervision should be strengthened so that ministers can always maintain a feeling of walking on thin ice.
Except for personnel appointments and dismissals, most of the contents of these memorials are about the northern states. Jushou continued the work-for-relief strategy implemented by Liu Xin when he first arrived in Jingzhou, and organized a large number of civilians to dig ditches and build roads. Not only
Young adults can earn money to support their families through these projects, and even women and children can do things within their capabilities. There will be no problem for the people to spend this winter safely.
But after next spring, people will return to their homes, and the farming season cannot be missed. However, the construction cannot stop, especially the roads must be repaired in place. Therefore, the entire engineering corps has been transferred to the north.
However, no matter how much power is delegated, there is one power that Liu Xin will firmly hold on to, and that is military power. Political power comes from the barrel of a gun. This is an eternal truth, and Liu Xin will not hand over the army to
other people's hands.
Although today's territory of the Han Dynasty is wider than ever before, Liu Xin still maintains the army at a limited scale. The main army is still the first to sixth army with a total of 550,000 people. The seventh army and the Western Region Army are organized
It also remained unchanged, the only change was to increase the cavalry in the third, fourth and fifth legions to 20,000 each.
In this era, cavalry was the most powerful force. After controlling the entire Mobei grassland, the Han army no longer had to worry about the supply of horses. However, raising a large number of war horses required a lot of national financial resources. Now is the time to recuperate.
, so Liu Xin still only retained a pure cavalry regiment.
Although the total size of the army has not expanded, in the battle to unify the Han Dynasty launched this fall, all major legions suffered heavy casualties, and some legions even suffered more than half of their casualties. There was an urgent need to recruit a large number of troops. Therefore, water conservancy and water conservancy projects were built in the northern states.
While building roads, a vigorous recruitment campaign was also launched. The reason why the recruitment was focused on the northern states was actually to solve the livelihood problems of the local people and reduce the burden of disaster relief on the court.
The Han army's food and salary benefits were the highest in history. An ordinary soldier could basically support a family of four. By recruiting more than 100,000 new soldiers into the army, hundreds of thousands of people could be fed.
Even if these measures are taken, many people in the northern states still need to rely on the court's relief, which has brought a heavy burden of money and food to the court. But Liu Xin has issued a death order. No matter how difficult it is, he must ensure that he does not freeze to death.
One person will not starve to death. Therefore, all county and county governments conducted thorough registration, and the imperial court also allocated a large amount of disaster relief materials, and the north gradually regained some vitality.
On the first day of the new year, Liu Xin officially announced the change of Yuan Dynasty to ZTE. In April of the same year, Liu Xin hosted a banquet in Chang'an for the kings of the Western Regions countries and the envoys of the five countries of Dayuan, Wusun, Kangju, Guishang and Shendu. On the one hand, he allowed the Western Regions to
The kings of various countries saw the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, which made them more determined to become members of the Han Dynasty. On the other hand, they reiterated the peaceful foreign policy of the Han Dynasty and dispelled the concerns of Dawan and other countries.
In fact, Liu Xin has secretly planned in her heart that at the right time in the future, she will bring Dawan and Wusun under the control of the Western Region Protectorate and restore the grandeur of the Han Dynasty. However, they still need to stabilize them now.
To ensure the smooth flow of trade routes in the Western Regions.
After more than two years of cultivation, the tea production in Jiangnan has reached a new height. Tea tasting and drinking has become a fashion among the upper class of Han Dynasty. Some thicker tea leaves and leftovers from the frying process are pressed into tea bricks.
, some were shipped to the grasslands, and some were sold to the West.
Although Liu Xin, in order to avoid attracting the attention of the powerful Qin Empire, restricted the caravans of the Han Dynasty to the territory of Kangju, he did not prevent the merchants of the Qin Dynasty from coming to the east. Moreover, through the caravans of other countries, some of the Han Dynasty merchants
Specialty products, such as silk, porcelain, tea, etc., gradually entered Rome, the capital of the Qin Empire, and became the most popular luxury goods of the Qin aristocrats.
The price of these goods sold to the West is almost three times more than in the Han Dynasty, and they are still very in demand. Many Qin nobles tried their best to collect these goods through various channels, but it was still difficult to meet their needs and they could only keep raising the prices. Especially
Tea was sold at sky-high prices in Rome. Even the most common bricks of tea were worth the same as gold. Needless to say, the price of top-quality tea.[
However, the nobles of the Qin Empire seemed to be addicted to tea. No matter how much money they spent, as long as they had the goods. Merchants were seeking profits. Driven by huge profits, many Han caravans also began to secretly traffic tea to Da Qin. Of course, although
Passing Congling is equivalent to leaving the border of the Han Dynasty, but no caravan has dared to blatantly bring business to Daqin. Most of them adopt alternative methods, such as cooperating with caravans from Kangju, Guishang, Dawan and other countries.
The tea was transported to these countries by the caravans of the Han Dynasty, and then sold to the Qin Dynasty by the caravans of these countries. In the end, the profits were equally divided.
Liu Xin deployed a lot of spies in these places, and he was already aware of their little moves. However, Liu Xin did not stop them. The Han Dynasty was very short of gold and silver, so he used copper coins as the main currency. The disadvantage of copper coins is that they are low in value.
, it is very inconvenient to carry. When Liu Xin went from Juchao to Hejian to take office, he carried dozens of boxes of copper coins.
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Although the banknotes issued by Dahan Bank solved the problem of using a large amount of copper coins in transactions, they had a fatal weakness, that is, the bank must store a large amount of gold and silver for customers to freely exchange. Otherwise, if the exchange is not timely, it will be very difficult.
It is easy to cause a run on the bank.
On the other hand, the Qin Empire had a lot of gold, silver and jewelry. When these Han caravans secretly sold the tea, they also exchanged a large amount of real gold and silver. Due to the convenience that the Han bank brought to trade, and its extremely high reputation,
, not only Dahan's caravans, but also many foreign caravans like to deposit money in Dahan Bank. As a result, Dahan Bank's gold and silver reserves are increasing, and banknotes are becoming safer, and Liu Xin will
I can't bear to attack these big Han caravans who take advantage of the loopholes.
At this moment, something happened to the Qin Empire far in the west.
For so many years, the power of the Qin Empire has been in the hands of the Elders, but this time the Qin Emperor Putimius wanted to keep the power in his own hands. After six years of hard work, he continued to cultivate cronies and control the military power.
He finally became a true monarch with supreme power.
As in the case of the Han Dynasty, Putimius' power was seized through several wars. In the process, he also built a powerful army, and the entire Qin aristocracy had followed him. The same principle is true.
, Da Qin also needed a lot of funds for post-war reconstruction.
At this time, Putimius suddenly discovered that a lot of gold and silver had been used by the nobles to buy tea. Although Putimius himself also liked drinking tea, he would not refuse even the lowest quality tea bricks.
.However, the massive loss of gold and silver had seriously threatened his rule, and he had to issue a tea ban.
Although a ban on tea was issued, changing the tea-drinking habits of the nobles could not be accomplished overnight. Moreover, these nobles were also the basis of Putimius's power. He did not have the courage to bring all the nobles to his own country.
The opposite. So Putimius swung his butcher knife at the caravans that trafficked tea.