Chapter 6: Success in the Twenty-third Quarter of the First Year of the Han Kingdom (19 AD). On the first day of the first month, the Son of Heaven led his ministers to worship Gaozu and Shizu Temple.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, worship heaven and earth and pray for a good harvest. On the ninth day of the first month, worship the martyrs of Longshan. On the same day, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to grant amnesty to the world and change the name of the year to Jian'an.

All these activities are carried out in Longquan. Due to the intervention of the eldest princess, the construction of the Jinyang Palace was temporarily suspended, and it was repaired by conscription during the spring ploughing and farming.

The Son of Heaven and the imperial court moved to the Longquan camp. This used to be the seat of the Jinyang Imperial Court, and all the facilities were complete, although it was a little crowded, it did not affect the operation of the imperial court.

The Son of Heaven was physically and mentally devastated, and fell ill years ago. The eldest princess accompanied her day and night, took care of her personally, and soon recovered.

He and the eldest princess are sisters and brothers, and the two have endured hardships and hardships for many years after the death of the first emperor.

For seven years, the two have always regarded each other as their only sustenance and reliance in this life, so this small quarrel did not hurt the deep feelings between the two.

The Son of Heaven was indeed very angry, the eldest princess beat him and scolded him in front of the ministers, and lost face, but after seeing his sister's tears and hearing his sister's bitter complaints, his anger turned to nothing.

Hebei is the world of the general, if you anger the general, anger the people up and down Hebei, how many days can you sit on this son of heaven?

Who is the Great General? When Xiao Shihou was the emperor, he almost led the army into Luoyang, so it can be seen that he didn't dare to do anything?

You think he's a tame leopard to be slaughtered? Do you think he is relinquishing power now because he is afraid that the whole world will join forces to fight him?

He even conquered the desert, and he still cares about those rebels? If you want to stay in Hebei, and if you want the generals and ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee to prosper for you, you must be supported by the people of Hebei, and you must become a Ming Jun praised by everyone, otherwise, you will not live long.

There are many descendants of the royal family in Hebei, as long as the general speaks, anyone can be the emperor. My father's edict is to let the general keep the Han Sheji, not to protect you as the emperor.

Be clear-headed, think more about everything, and don't send yourself to a dead end. The Son of Heaven understood.

Although the generals and Hebei officials were respectful to themselves, their situation had not been fundamentally improved, and their lives were still in danger at any time.

However, there is a sister in Hebei, and I don't have to worry about it all day long like in the past. At the foot of Longquan Mountain.

The camp of the Son of Heaven is in the middle, the camp of the eldest princess is on the left, the big camp of the imperial court is in the square, the three camps are continuous for several miles, the flag is fluttering, it is magnificent.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the ministers began to deliberate. The focus of the deliberations was mainly on four aspects.

First of all, how to complete the great cause of ZTE? The situation in the world has become clear, and the forces of various states and counties are large and small, so what methods can be used to calm the world as soon as possible?

After a period of deliberation, the ministers finally formulated a strategy, that is, to devote themselves to the north and the south, strike at the east and west, and strive to defeat the most powerful Yuan Shao in the shortest possible time.

Defeating Yuan Shao not only successfully recovered Guan and Luo, but also deterred other forces, forcing them to give up their force and return to the imperial court.

Yuan Shao is the biggest enemy of the imperial court, Cao Cao is the enemy of the imperial court, except for these two forces, the other forces are the objects that the imperial court can indulge in.

Hebei first entered the customs last year, then Jizhou was affected, and then the Kansai was lost, the loss was huge, and it took a period of time to recover.

Therefore, the imperial court decided to send appeasement envoys to various places to appease first. Even if the local forces are unwilling to be appeased, on the premise of respecting the Son of Heaven, they will not immediately join forces with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao to attack Hebei.

As long as there is no war in Hebei within two years, then two years later, the Northern Xinjiang Army can start a major war to pacify the world.

Once Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were eliminated and the Northern Xinjiang Army occupied Luoyang, the great cause of Zhongxing could be completed within a few years.

The second is the land system and taxation. Without money and food, there is no way to fight a war and no way to pacify the world. Jizhou was hit by a disaster last year, and the popularization of the system of dictating fields encountered great difficulties, but the counties and counties that have already implemented the new field system have achieved good results.

This shows that the new land system has achieved the desired goal, and can play a role in controlling land annexation, increasing taxes and stabilizing the people.

As a result, the imperial court decided that the three prefectures of Hebei will fully promote the implementation of the system of counting and dictating fields this year, and all of them will be completed next year.

On the issue of taxation, the eldest princess, the princess, the great general Sima, and a group of ministers resolutely opposed the increase in taxes and demanded that the land rent tax be maintained

"Tithe one". Since we can't increase the tax, and the total amount of taxes can't be increased, we have no choice but to save. The imperial court decided that the daily expenses of the county government and the salaries of the officials would no longer be distributed by the imperial court, but would be provided by the public office fields and office fields of each county and county, and they would collect and support themselves.

The income from the public land is used by the government and the government. The division of posts is granted according to the level of the official position, 15 hectares of the assassin history, 10 hectares of the Taishou, 8 hectares of each of the Zhizhong and Beijia, 6 hectares of each of the county order and the county Cheng, and they are not allowed to buy and sell, and they are handed over to the successor officer when they leave their posts.

"Narrow villages" (i.e., areas with a lot of people and little land) would be subsidized by the imperial court. This system is also included

"Counting the system of dictating the field" and implementing it immediately. Last year, in order to implement this measure, the Hebei government had already purchased a large amount of land from the wealthy people of Hebei, so the matter was successfully passed by the collegiate agreement.

When the wealthy people heard that the general King Qin was successful, the Son of Heaven and the imperial court arrived in Jinyang, and their enthusiasm for selling their land was even higher.

The general had promised them in the past that when the world was at peace in the future, he would repay them for today's losses in multiples.

Now that this promise has become the decree of the Son of Heaven, the effect is of course very different. There are also two key issues in the tax bill, one is the reuse of the five-baht coin, and the other is the setting of the salt and iron officials.

The imperial court has been rebuilt, and the three officials of Shanglin Yuan (Zhong Guan, Distinguishing Copper Order, and Junlo Order) also have it, and Hebei already has a furnace and craftsmen for casting money, and what is needed is the next edict to abolish the big money and re-mint and circulate the five-baht coin.

The salt and iron officials of the county were originally subordinate to Dasi Nong, and they were assigned to the county during the time of Emperor Guangwu. Considering the shortage of financial resources in the imperial court, the ministers unanimously passed the abolition of the salt and iron governor's mansion in northern Xinjiang, and the salt and iron officials of each county were re-subordinated to the Dasi Nong Mansion.

The salt and iron officials were appointed directly by the imperial court. The third is the revision of the military system. This dynasty inherited the Qin system, and the emperor was the supreme military commander, and there were two major military institutions under it to control the whole army.

One is the Beijing Division Guard Organization composed of Guangluxun, Wei Wei, and Zhi Jinwu, and the other is the highest military administrative body composed of Tai Wei (or Da Sima) and generals at all levels.

The army of this dynasty consisted of three parts, the Jingshi army, the ** teams of each county and the border army. The Jingshi army included the Huben and Yulin armies, the southern army and the northern army.

The Northern Army usually guards the Beijing Division, and when it is on the expedition, one or all of it goes out with the general. The soldiers of the county maintained local law and order in peacetime, and listened to the dispatch of the imperial court in wartime.

The emperor is needed to recruit the county soldiers

"Tiger Talisman". During the reign of Emperor Guangwu, he first dismissed the county commander, and then dismissed the county soldiers. When the war is tense, it is temporarily recruited from the county.

The border army guards the border counties, and is led by the border counties and the chief of the country. The dynasty practiced conscription and conscription.

Before Emperor Guangwu, there was no distinction between military service and labor service, and they were collectively referred to

"Conscription". Adult males begin at the age of 20 and serve one month of local labour every year, he said

"More pawns". After the age of twenty-three, he served two years of military service, called

"Pawn". First, he served as a county soldier in his county for a year, underwent military training, acquired the necessary military skills, and then returned to his hometown to work as a farmer and become a national reserve soldier.

In the future, according to the actual needs, to the border county to guard or to the Beijing division to guard, called

"Pawn" or

"Guardian". In the event of war, one must be conscripted into the army at any time and be exempted from military service until the age of fifty-six. This is a conscription system.

In the late Guangwu period, after the imperial court abolished the county soldiers, the conscription system gradually disappeared, and the only way to fight was to rely on recruiting soldiers.

General Sima began to raise funds to revise the military system last year, and for this reason, he specially invited Zhenbei General Xian Yufu back from Youzhou to preside over this matter.

Among the old ministers, Zhang Wen, Cui Lie, and Ma Riyan all served as lieutenants in the court, and they are naturally very clear about the pros and cons of the Han military system.

After several months of discussion, several ministers came up with a preliminary plan. This decision has been shown to dozens of generals, lieutenant generals, and lieutenants in the Northern Xinjiang Army, their opinions have been carefully consulted, and it has been revised more than a dozen times.

The basis of this new military system is neither conscription nor conscription, but the household system. Once a peasant household is registered in the military, it becomes a military household.

Soldiers are entitled to tax exemptions, and one male from each generation of the family must serve as soldiers. If there are men in the military for generations, the country will have a large army for generations.

In wartime, soldiers go to the battlefield, and when they are no longer fighting, they work in the family's farming, herding, and training. In peacetime, every three years, they go to the border pass to defend or go to the Beijing division to guard for six months, so that the Beijing division army and the border army can maintain strong combat effectiveness.

The combination of the military household system and the tuntian system has set up 18 military camps in the three prefectures of Hebei, with 10,000 military households in each military camp, that is, 10,000 soldiers.

The 10,000 military households of each battalion are usually led by the school captain and are stationed in the fields or grazing cattle in the designated places. In wartime, the emperor was held by generals and lieutenant generals

The "Tiger Fu" went to the major battalions to recruit troops to fight. After the battle was over, the soldiers returned to the camp and grazed, and the general and Zhonglang returned to the court to prevent the general from supporting the army.

Jizhou has seven camps: Handan, Yecheng, Xindu, Dongwuyang, Ganling, Nanpi and Pingyuan. Hedong has five camps in Hebei, Pubanjin, Jiexian, Anyi and Linfen.

Youzhou Macheng and Yuyang two camps. The desert and the border counties have four large camps: Jinxueyuan, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, and Duliao.

The recruit system still does not have county soldiers. The reason why today's Han Dynasty is plunged into continuous wars is because the states and counties are too guarded and Haoqiang recruited troops to defend themselves according to the decree of the Son of Heaven after the Yellow Turban Uprising.

According to the current support capacity of Hebei's financial endowment, the new army system stipulates that the Beijing Division Army is composed of 40,000 Northern Army, 20,000 Southern Army, 7,000 Tiger Army, and Yulin Army, a total of 67,000 troops.

In wartime, the Northern and Southern armies had to take turns on the battlefield. The number of border troops was set at 20,000 cavalry, of which the 10,000 Fengyun Iron Cavalry of the Jinxueyuan Battalion belonged to the standing army, and the remaining 10,000 troops were provided by the Wuyuan Battalion, the Yunzhong Battalion, the Duliao Battalion, the Macheng Battalion, and the Yuyang Battalion.

According to such a scale calculation, Hebei will have 250,000 soldiers, even if the six major battalions of the border army, Jinyang Huben and Yulin Army, Hebei can also requisition 180,000 troops to fight in the south at one time, and its strength is so strong that people's blood is boiling.

It's a pity that Hebei doesn't have such a big financial force, and it can't support the 180,000 army at the same time, and the best idea is to make the two fists bigger, no matter which one is hit, the other party can be defeated.

The last problem is the Hu people in northern Xinjiang. The son of the late Xianbei King and Lian, Qian Man, gradually grew up.

The Tuoba tribe also recovered slightly, and after the death of the Wild Wolf King's Ranger, the remnants of the Wild Wolf Tribe also returned to Qianman.

When the three forces are combined, the strength is great. When the strength is great, the ambition will come, so they will set their sights on the step of increasing power.

They want to defeat Budugen, occupy the northwest of the desert, and regain the glory of the Xianbei people in the past. At this time, Pang De and Wei Jun led the Fengyun Iron Cavalry and the Ural Iron Cavalry to the south to fight Chang'an.

The iron horses of the Han people rode away, and the Xianbei people were suddenly overjoyed. Tuoba Tao and Tuoba Raccoon immediately led the army to attack and kill the pace.

The two sides are in a big fight. The war continued, and soon, more and more Xianbei tribes were caught in this war, and even the Kirby Bear in the central Xianbei was also pulled in.

Fortunately, Pang De and Wei Jun returned to the desert in time, they felt that their troops were insufficient and could not deter the Xianbei people, so Liu Bao, the king of Yanjing Zuoxian, led his army into the desert to help.

As soon as Liu Bao left, Yu Fuluo, the Hun Dadan, died. Liu Bao's absence gave the nobles of Shan Yuting a chance to rebel against Li Hong.

Liu Bao is the son of Yu Fu Luo, and he can become the deputy prince because Li Hong's war knife is too sharp, and the Huns dare not agree.

The fact that the Huns did not dare not agree does not mean that they have no intention of resisting. Yu Fuluo wanted to pass on the position of Da Shan Yu to his sister-in-law Atai, and Atai has been working hard.

In the past few years, Yu Fuluo has not allowed Liu Bao to return to Shan Yuting, and at the same time, he also persuaded his younger brother Zuogu Liwang Hu Chuquan, his younger brother Youxian Wang Qubei and other nobles in Shan Yuting to help Atai.

Yu Fuluo suddenly fell seriously ill, and it happened that Liu Bao went to the desert again, and the heavens gave him a good opportunity, so Yu Fuluo summoned the Xiongnu tribes before his death and announced that Atai would succeed Dashan Yu.

Now that King Youxian is in Jinyang, he is here to persuade Li Hong. He explained the reasons why Shan Yuting opposed Liu Bao's succession to Da Shan Yu, and finally put forward a suggestion, in order to maintain the stability of Northern Xinjiang, it is better to let Atai serve as Da Shan Yu.

If Atai made a big order, the Xiongnu tribes would not be chaotic, and the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty would be stable. As for Liu Bao, he is still King Zuoxian, and when Atai dies in the future, he can still succeed Da Danyu.

As long as he made a big order, the general did not lose his words. Li Hong sneered,

"You dare to threaten me? I gave Shan Yuting two months. In March, if Atai is still a big order, I will personally visit him in Meiji. He went away in fear, but Li Hong was also worried and anxious.

The desert has been calm for six years, and the various tribes of the Hu nationality have recuperated and regained their strength, and finally they can't bear the loneliness, and they are about to reappear.

If the northern Xinjiang is unstable, the northern Xinjiang army will not say that it will go south to quell the rebellion, and even Hebei may not be able to hold it. Li Hong immediately decided to personally inspect the desert to deter the Hu tribes.

Under the first month, the new systems passed the collegial meeting of the imperial court and began to be implemented. Lu Yi, Zhang Yan, Yang Feng, Yushi, Yan Liang, Zhao Yun and others arrived in Jinyang one after another with their armies, and the 67,000 Beijing division army was quickly formed in a short period of time.

At the same time, the Son of Heaven sent the Holy Decree to all parts of the three states of Hebei, and eighteen generals and Zhonglang, including Yan Rou, Gongsun Zhan, Xian Yuyin, Wen Chou, Pang De, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Hua Xiong, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Xu Huang, were ordered to form the eighteen military camps.

At the end of the first month, Li Hong played the Son of Heaven and asked to lead the two battalions of Changshui and Hu Cavalry to the north of the desert to inspect the border fortress.

The Son of Heaven was startled,

"Aiqing, you're gone, what should I do in Hebei?" He handed Li Hong's recital to Xun Yu who was standing on the side,

"I can't be the master, I'm going to ask my sister." Xun You took Li Hong's recital and went straight to the camp of the eldest princess.

"Your Majesty......" Li Hong said again,

"The affairs of the Huns and the Xianbei people must be dealt with immediately, those who should be killed must be killed, and those who should be arrested must be arrested, otherwise, the Hu tribes will become more and more arrogant, which is very harmful to the great cause of Zhongxing." The Son of Heaven tilted his head and shook it to the left, humming and saying nothing,

"Aiqing, don't all the Hu people listen to you?"

"Your Majesty, the Hu people are not afraid of me, but afraid of the heavenly power of my big man." Li Hong smiled bitterly,

"Now that the Han Dynasty is in continuous war and its power is not there, how can these Hu people let go of such a good opportunity in order to recapture the desert?" The two chatted for a while.

Soon, the eldest princess and Xun You walked in one after another.

"Does the general have to go north at this time?" The eldest princess asked worriedly.

"Sooner rather than later." Li Hong sighed,

"We have repeatedly discussed the situation in northern Xinjiang, and if we don't crush the luck psychology of the Hu people in time, there will be endless troubles." The eldest princess was silent for a long time, and then sighed softly,

"After the general leaves, who will act as the great horseman?"

"Lord Situ Zhang Wen." Li Hong immediately said,

"I and many generals in Northern Xinjiang used to be his subordinates. Back then, he commanded us to defeat the Xiliang rebels, and today, he can also command the army to repel the incoming rebellion. ”

"Yuan Shao is coming to fight Hebei?" The Son of Heaven asked in surprise.

"Not this year, he also needs time to develop his strength." Li Hong said with a smile,

"That's the main reason why I'm in a hurry to go north." The eldest princess glanced at Li Hong suspiciously,

"General, why don't you let Lord Xian Yu do the big thing?"

"In the court today, only Lord Zhang Wen is proficient in political affairs and military affairs at the same time, and the court needs him to support the overall situation at this time." The eldest princess glanced at him resentfully, and suddenly said angrily, "Why do you always go on expeditions? Can't you stay in Jinyang for a while longer? Except for you, no one in the north will fight? Li Hong was dumbfounded.

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