Liu Che stood in the imperial garden of Lantai, quietly looking at the magnificent and gorgeous exotic flowers growing in it.

At the entrance of the garden not far away, there is a wooden sign with a bright red plaque to warn all passers-by: Those who do not enter the palace will die!

This garden, and its attached buildings, is the most secret forbidden place of Weiyang Palace.

Few people know what the flowers and plants planted in this garden are.

Even those who know can't understand why the Son of Heaven is so solemn and protects this garden planted with exotic flowers and plants from the Western Regions as comparable to the Han Ding enshrined in the Taizong Temple.

Only Liu Che knew that in this garden, which covered an area of only more than 400 square meters, there were terrifying hell flowers.

Staring at the blooming flowers, Liu Che laughed.

The results of this early warning are very good.

In the north and south of the great river, on both sides of the great river, the nobles of the clan, the people of Li Shu, in front of Liu Che's divine omen, there is no other choice except for the five bodies to the ground and bow their heads.

The imperial power of the Han family has never been so strong and powerful - even the founding master, Liu Bang, may not be more majestic than Liu Che now.

When the imperial power and the divine power are unified and recognized by the people of the world.

The emperor has truly become the only husband in the world.

Now, Liu Che is free to do whatever he wants.

Even if he said that if he wanted to build a Star Destroyer, the people of the world and people of all classes would probably follow him to make it.

In front of the emperor who has mastered the divine power.

What a relative. The bureaucrats and aristocrats are all the scum of war!

Han Chamber. It has truly entered the era of 'the king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die'.

Even the East Palace. has also completely lost the power to restrain Liu Che - under the two-palace system, the East Palace may still be able to maintain a transcendent status, but if you want to be the same as in the past, it is impossible to call Liu Che over for a wild spray when you are unhappy.

The Son of Heaven with the blessing of the Mandate of Heaven has no taboos.

The government and the opposition all knelt in front of the miracle of Guangling City.

To put it bluntly: now. Even if all the nobles and bureaucrats unite and want to elevate Liu Che, as long as Liu Che can get out of Weiyang Palace and walk to the head of Chang'an City, then all opposition and restrictions will be floating clouds.

Just like when Taizu of the Celestial Empire went crazy once: If the People's Liberation Army doesn't want me, I will go to the Red Army.

Liu Che now has the strength to flip the table off and start another game.

But that's exactly what it is. Liu Che should be more calm and cautious.

He knew very well that the power he had in his hands now was too strong and terrifying.

It's simply a disrupting presence in the game.

Just like these magnificent flowers of hell in front of his eyes.

If this power is used well, it can make the development of the Han family and the development of social processes faster. Speed up several times or even dozens of times, and within a hundred years, running will enter the industrial society. Not a dream.

But if there is a slight deviation, it will be a catastrophe.

Liu Che was a little worried. He's going to indulge in that kind of mastering everything, creating everything. In the illusion of destroying everything, and forgetting his own goal and mission.

But the emperor, to put it bluntly, is alone.

Liu Che didn't have anyone to talk to.

Many things are not a way to hold in your heart for a long time.

Therefore, Liu Che has often come here recently, quietly looking at the flowers and plants in this garden in a daze, or talking to himself.

But today, Liu Che is not here to relax.

Rather, it is to lift the ban on a batch of cotton seeds stored here.

Last year, through smuggling transactions with Yi Zhixian and Da Lu and others.

In total, the Han family obtained more than 1,000 stone of various plant seeds.

Ninety percent of them were basically useless for Han agriculture, or only a supplement.

For example, sesame seeds, cucumbers, etc.

However, the remaining 10 percent are nuclear bomb plants with huge influence and can even change history.

Cotton is one of them.

After getting the cotton seeds, Liu Che asked the agricultural officials of Shaofu to organize and open up a test field of about 100 acres in Shanglinyuan as a cotton test base to explore the technology of planting cotton.

After a year, I have accumulated a lot of experience.

Therefore, this time, Liu Che plans to open a cotton plantation in Shangjun to lay a good foundation for large-scale cotton planting in the future.

This thing, as long as it is done.

Then, it is equivalent to opening up the Han army.

Even, cotton cloth can be used as a weapon - there will definitely be Huns or some other nomadic people who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the Han army for a cotton coat.

It's just that this road is destined to be full of thorns.

I want to turn cotton into cotton.

In the middle, it is necessary to overcome the planting and breeding technology of cotton, and the textile technology of cotton.

Don't spend a few years figuring it out, don't even think about it.

In addition, if cotton cloth is introduced, the whole society will be in turmoil.

The reason is very simple, at this time, the cloth belongs to the auxiliary currency, and even the cloth itself is hard currency.

It is conceivable that if cotton, a new type of durable, economical fabric, floods into the market, the whole society will have to endure such turmoil!

In particular, those areas with mulberry and hemp as their backbone will be dealt a fatal blow.

Countless farmers will go bankrupt or even fall into desperation.

This is similar to the earth in the future, if one day, human beings suddenly master nuclear fusion, the first thing to usher in is probably not the whole of mankind running into the interstellar age, but the collapse of the human economy, oil and everything attached to the oil economy, will collapse, tens of millions of unemployed people, will consume the brain cells of all leaders.

Sometimes, advanced does not necessarily bring benefits, but brings dangers!

The same is true for Liu Che.

He carefully promoted the development of industry, instead of rolling up his sleeves and working hard.

However, after this successful pretending to be a ghost, Liu Che can finally take a bigger step.

Shangjun was selected as a pilot for the planting and promotion of cotton. It was Liu Che who decided after half a year of research.

Because. At this time, Shangjun was a natural planting base for cotton.

Upper County is poor. The land was barren, the mountains and forests were dense, the water resources were scarce, and the population was sparse, and even the Xiongnu were reluctant to take the road of the county to invade the Han family, because the gains outweighed the losses.

Such a poor place is the most suitable place to grow as a cash crop.

Placing the cotton planting base in Shangjun can also avoid similar production in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Changing to plant mulberry trees, develop the silk weaving industry, and earn foreign exchange through exports, as a result, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have changed from a grain-producing area to a region that relies heavily on foreign supplies for grain.

Liu Che couldn't imagine how much negative impact it would have if cotton planting was developed in Guanzhong.

Just think about it. The food shortage in Guanzhong has risen from one million stones to five million, or even tens of millions of stones, every year.

Anyone who is sane shuddered.

Watch the royal road from the cellar with three layers of protection. Remove a few bags of cotton seeds buried deep in them.

Liu Che couldn't help but think a little: "I don't know where the Huns are now?" ”

The last time Liu Che received definite information about the inside of the Huns was in December last year, when he was. Yi Zhixie, who was secretly trading with the Han Dynasty at the foot of the Great Wall, passed on a message: the Xiongnu were advancing westward. Governor of more than ten national soldiers in the Western Regions, soldiers approached Dawan.

Anyone can see the meaning.

This is oblique. It is expected that after Liu Che discovered the westward advance of the main Xiongnu force, the Han army went north and crushed the Xiongnu tribes arranged near the Great Wall.

Of course, Yi Zhixian is not an international friend, and he is so close to Han that he doesn't even know who he is.

His purpose is simple.

It is to drag the military ministers back, and even let the military ministers' westward expansion plan fail, or even suffer a fiasco.

The military minister is undefeated, where is the opportunity for Yi Zhixie to come?

As for whether this will lead to the decline of the Xiongnu and the loss of the hegemony of the steppes and East Asia?

What does this have to do with Yi Zhixi?

Even if you want to consider this issue, I'm afraid he will have to sit on the throne of the Xiongnu Da Danyu.

But Liu Che is not stupid.

Now go out of the fortress and go to face the Huns just head-on, maybe you can win in the early stage.

But then, the Huns, who came to their senses, were not easy to deal with.

There is no doubt about the strength of the Huns.

Compared with other nomadic peoples who competed with the Han people in history, the Xiongnu also had the blood bag of the Western Regions to replenish blood, and had an incomparable advantage in terms of consumption.

The Han family pushed out in waves, if it didn't push out a few key resource points of the Huns, it would break its backbone.

The Huns, who came to their senses, had the strength to confront the Han Dynasty.

In other words, as long as the Han army could not open the passage to the Western Regions for a day, it would cut off the control of the Xiongnu over the countries of the Western Regions.

There are Huns in the Western Regions to replenish blood, no matter how bad the situation is, it is the same as in history, if they retreat into Mobei and do not come out, the Han army can only cry out in vain.

Therefore, as long as the Huns do not provoke and do not take the initiative to invade, Liu Che will be stupid, so they will tear up the peace treaty and take the initiative to go to war.

However, Liu Che is still very concerned about the movements of the Huns.

Since last year, Liu Che deliberately asked people to transmit that map to the Xiongnu, and at the same time killed many eyeliners and intelligence personnel arranged by the Xiongnu in the territory of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che has been concerned and worried about the progress of the Xiongnu's westward expansion.

It's impossible not to care and not to worry!

In case, if the Huns really opened the way to India and began to colonize India.

That's a tragedy!

With the third brother's endless human resources as a backing, maybe the Huns can really climb to the apex of nomadic evolution.

As for whether the third brother can resist the Huns?

Liu Che never doubted this question.

In the history of the third brother, there is no record of successfully resisting foreign invasion......

Even the Tibetan Buddhas once walked down from the Himalayas to enlighten and educate the masses of the third brother, recite the scriptures well, and make progress every day.

"I hope the Dawan people can give you more strength...... Liu Che muttered in his heart: "Don't embarrass your ancestors!" ”

Twenty or thirty years later, Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions and arrived in Dawan and witnessed the prosperity and prosperity of Dawan.

Zhang Qian said: Dawan is in the southwest of the Xiongnu, in the west of the Han Dynasty, and goes to Han Ke Wanli...... It belongs to more than 70 cities of different sizes, and the public can be hundreds of thousands.

Zhang Qian didn't lie.

Later, Li Guangli, the general of the second division, was in front of Dawan, and he broke his head and bled out, and he barely won a disastrous victory and returned home.

This is also the result of Xiaozhu mobilizing the strength of the whole country to support Li Guangli -- just in the reserves, Xiaozhu mobilized 60,000 people, as well as 100,000 cattle, 30,000 horses, and countless other livestock; in addition, in Jiuquan and Zhangye, the Han army, which was responsible for logistics support and support work, amounted to 180,000 people, in order to transport military rations to Li Guangli, and sent seven branches of the world to transport grain and supplies, and the supply teams were connected to form a long dragon, from Dunhuang to Jiuquan and Zhangye.

Liu Che thinks that no matter what, the Dawan people can hold out in front of the Huns for three or five years, right?

Otherwise, it's no wonder that Alexander doesn't crawl out of the grave to settle accounts with these guys!

On the other hand, Liu Che felt that the Wusun people would definitely give full play to their strengths in the 10,000-year-old-stirring stick in history.

If you don't secretly stumble on the Huns, or even pull back your legs, then is Wusun still called Wusun?

However, just when Liu Che was looking forward to watching a good show.

A piece of news came from Yunzhong County: the Hun cavalry attacked a Han village at the foot of the Great Wall, killing and captive most of the villagers.

Yunzhong County Shouwei is still in a hurry to report to Chang'an.

After Liu Che received this report, he immediately felt that he had been slapped twice in the face.

"It's really a dog can't change eating!" Liu Che scolded a few words secretly.

He knew very well that the Han army must respond resolutely and thoroughly to this provocation.

Otherwise, today the Hun cavalry can invade, kill and capture the Han people.

Tomorrow, the Huns will dare to break through the Great Wall and directly attack the big cities of the Han region.

There is no need to explain any reasoning to the aggressor, and there is no need to study any countermeasures.

Since they brought all the knives and guns to your house, they killed your family.

Do you have to call the police and then sit down and reason with someone?

But anyone with a normal IQ will choose, cut it first, and then talk about it!

Liu Che immediately replied to Wei Shang, the county guard of Yunzhong County: Those who commit crimes against the Han Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away! Capture and kill one of my people, and you will take the captive first!

To put it simply, it is to ask Wei Shang to retaliate reciprocally.

You kill one of my people, and I kill one of your herdsmen.

Not only that, Liu Che also ordered that all mutual trading with the Xiongnu at the foot of the Great Wall be immediately canceled, including smuggling trade with Yi Zhixian and others.

The posture is obvious: if the Huns don't give me an explanation, I will give you an explanation for the Huns!

If in the past, Liu Che's decision would undoubtedly encounter many resistances.

The forces of the anti-war faction and the appeasement faction are quite powerful in both the government and the opposition.

Even Emperor Taizong Xiaowen has compromised in front of these people.

But now, no one dares to have any objections.

In front of the Son of Heaven, who has been confirmed, he is indeed destined for heaven.

All bureaucrats and elites are scum.

Only the two queen mothers of the East Palace sent someone to call Liu Che over and persuaded them to be patient and calm their anger.

But in the end, the two queen mothers were persuaded by Liu Che.

Liu Che's reason for persuading them is very simple: I am ordered by heaven, and I am mandated by heaven to protect the state of China, if I do not obey the order, I will be punished by heaven, and there is nothing to pray for!

Under such powerful grounds, both the anti-war faction and the appeasement faction were speechless.

No one dares to bear the charge of letting the Son of Heaven be condemned by heaven.

Of course, in the end, Liu Che still guaranteed that as long as the Xiongnu did not expand the scale of the war, then Liu Che would not expand the war.

As long as the Huns can give Liu Che an explanation, Liu Che is also willing to rebuild the old friendship with the Huns.

As for the actions on Wei Shang's side.

Liu Che answered the questions of the two queen mothers in one sentence: The arrow is on the string and has to be sent. (To be continued......)