In order to maintain the prosperity of the family, these gentry families often do everything they can to. When he was in Xiangyang, Cai Jue sent the young Cai Jue to the prefecture. Now that Zhen Mi has come to Chang'an and entered the palace again, is it also a method that the Zhen family came up with for the benefit of the family? Liu Xin frowned.
But when she saw Zhen Mi stretched out her small hand, she said, "Your Majesty, you promised to bring my book."
Liu Xin realized that she was thinking too much, so she couldn't help but smile, and said, "Don't worry, I will never break my promise this time. You can go to Zhaoji to get it tomorrow."
"Zhao Ji?" Zhen Mi asked with a frown, "Who is Zhao Ji?"
Liu Xin smiled and said, "Zhao Ji is Cai Guifei. These books are under her control. If you want to read in the future, just ask her directly."
While talking, Zhang Gou'er had already taken a white jade token and handed it over reluctantly. You know, even if the chief of the inner palace like him, only silver tokens are used, and such a little girl can do whatever he wants. Possess a white jade token. Zhang Gou'er didn't dare to disobey Liu Xin's order, but cast his anger on the two maids who stayed to take care of Zhen Mi, awakened them and scolded them severely, and deducted the monthly money of the month.
Liu Xin didn't mind Zhang Gou'er playing with the majesty of his chief of the palace. These eunuchs were physically disabled and their mentality would inevitably be affected. There was nothing indispensable to let them vent once in a while, but they had to be within a controllable range.
However, after this night of chance encounter, Zhen Mi was able to enter and leave the palace without any worries about the guards' interrogation. And Cai Yan's collection of books in this small courtyard almost contains the books that the whole big man can collect, enough for her to read it for three or five years. But until the Spring Festival, when Zhen Mi was about to return to Yecheng, she never met Liu Xin in the palace again.
Although the Han Dynasty achieved unification, the northern territory has become riddled with turmoil due to the war. As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xin had to make himself look like a king at this time, so he would either deal with memorials in the hall most of the time, or go to the Chang'an street market to experience the sentiments of the people, and only return to the harem at night.
Liu Xin delegated most of the power to the cabinet and the six ministries, but that doesn't mean that he can be a handyman. Every order issued by the cabinet and the six ministries will send a copy to Liu Xin. If there are some sensitive issues related to each other, even if they are within their scope of power, they will first ask for Liu Xin's opinion.
Liu Xin will carefully review every memorial submitted by the cabinet. In Liu Xin's words, it is precisely because power has been delegated to them that supervision should be strengthened so that the ministers always maintain a feeling of walking on thin ice.
Except for the appointment and removal of personnel, most of the contents of these memorials are about the northern states. Jushou continued the strategy that Liu Xin had implemented when he arrived in Jingzhou earlier this year, and organized a large number of civilians to dig ditches and build roads. Not only can young people earn money to support their families through these projects, but even women and children can do things that they can do for a long time. The people will have no problem going through this winter safely.
But when the spring begins next year, the people will return to their homes individually, and the farming time cannot be wrong. However, the project could not be stopped, especially the road must be refurbished in place. Therefore, the entire engineering corps was transferred to the north.
However, no matter how much power is delegated, there is one power that Liu Xin will firmly grasp, and that is military power. Political power emerges from the barrel of a gun. This is an unchanging truth. Liu Xin will not hand the army into the hands of others.
Although the 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 1st to 6th army with a total of 550,000 people. The seventh army and the Western Region army are formed. The only change was to increase the cavalry in the third, fourth, and fifth legions to 20,000.
In this era, the cavalry is the most powerful unit. After taking control of the entire Mobei grassland, the Han army actually didn't have to worry about the supply of horses. However, keeping a large number of war horses requires a lot of national financial resources. Now is the time to recuperate, so Liu Xin still only retains a pure cavalry army.
Although the overall size of the army has not been expanded, in the battle of the unification of the army launched this fall, the major corps suffered heavy casualties, and some corps even suffered more than half of the casualties, and there was an urgent need to supplement a large number of soldiers. As a result, while the northern prefectures were building water conservancy and roads, they also launched a vigorous recruitment campaign. 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 the imperial court for disaster relief.
The salaries of the Han army are the highest in history, and an ordinary soldier can basically support a family of four. Enlisting more than 100,000 recruits at once can feed hundreds of thousands.
Even with these measures, many people in the northern prefectures still need to rely on the government's relief, which brings a heavy burden of money and food to the court. But Liu Xin has already given the order to die, no matter how difficult it is, he must ensure that no one will freeze to death or starve to death. Therefore, all counties and government offices have carried out detailed registration, and the imperial court has also allocated a large amount of relief supplies, and the north has gradually recovered some vitality.
On the first day of the new year, Liu Xin officially announced the change of Yuan Zhongxing. In April of the same year, Liu Xin hosted a banquet for the kings of the Western Regions and the envoys of Dawan, Wusun, Kangju, Guishuang, and Santos in Chang'an. On the one hand, he let the kings of the Western Regions see the prosperity of the Han Dynasty and make them even more Resolutely become a member of the Han Dynasty, on the other hand, reiterated the peaceful foreign policy of the Han Dynasty and dispelled the concerns of Dawan and other countries.
In fact, Liu Xin had secretly calculated in her heart that at the right time in the future, Dawan and Wusun would also be brought under the rule of the Western Regions Protectorate, and the grandeur of the Hanwu period would be restored. However, it is still necessary to stabilize them first to ensure the smooth flow of the Western Regions Commercial Road.
After more than two years of cultivation, the output of tea in Jiangnan has reached a new height. Tea drinking and tea has become a fashion in the upper class of the Han Dynasty. Some coarser tea leaves and leftovers from the frying process are pressed into tea bricks, some are shipped to the grasslands, and some are sold to the West.
Although Liu Xin, in order to avoid attracting the attention of the powerful Da Qin Empire, restricted Da Han's caravan to reach Kangju as far as possible, he did not prevent Da Qin merchants from coming to the east. Moreover, through the caravans of other countries, some characteristic products of Dahan, such as silk, porcelain and tea, gradually entered the capital of the Great Qin Empire, Rome, and became the favorite luxury goods of the Da Qin aristocracy.
The prices of these commodities sold in the West are almost three times that of Dahan, and they are still very tight. Many Daqin nobles tried every means to collect these commodities through various channels, but it was still difficult to meet their needs, and they had to keep raising prices. In particular, tea is sold at sky-high prices in Rome. Even the most common tea bricks are equivalent to gold. Needless to say the price of top-grade tea.
However, the nobles of the Qin Empire seem to be addicted to tea, no matter how much it is, as long as it is in stock. Merchants were chasing profits. Driven by huge profits, many caravans of big men also began to secretly trade tea in Daqin. Of course, although passing Congling is equivalent to leaving the border of Dahan, no caravan dared to blatantly do business in Daqin. Most of them adopted flexible methods, such as cooperating with caravans from Kangju, Guishuang, and Dawan. The caravans of Dahan transported the tea to these countries, and then the caravans of these countries sold them to Daqin in a fair way, and the profits were divided equally.
Liu Xin has arranged a lot of eyeliners in these places, and actually already knows their little movements. However, Liu Xin did not stop them. Dahan is very short of gold and silver, so he uses copper coins as the main currency in circulation. The disadvantage of copper coins is that they are low in value and very inconvenient to carry. When Liu Xin went from Juchao to Hejian to take office, he carried dozens of boxes of copper coins.
Although the silver notes issued by Dahan Bank have solved the problem of the large amount of copper used in transactions, it has a fatal weakness, that is, the bank must store a large amount of gold and silver for customers to exchange freely. Otherwise, if the exchange is not timely, it will be very difficult. Easy to cause a run storm.
On the other hand, in the Great Qin Empire, most of them are gold and silver jewelry. While these big caravans secretly sold the tea, they also exchanged a large amount of real money for it. Due to the convenience that Dahan Bank brings to trade, coupled with its high reputation, not only Dahan’s caravans, but even many foreign caravans like to deposit money in Dahan Bank. As a result, the gold and silver reserves of the Dahan Bank became more and more, and the silver bills became more and more secure, and Liu Xin was reluctant to start with these big Han caravans who took advantage of the loopholes.
At this moment, the Great Qin Empire far away in the West changed.
For so many years, the power of the Great Qin Empire has been in the hands of the elder's house, but the current Emperor Putimius of the Great Qin is wholeheartedly trying to control the power in his own hands. After six years of hard work, he continued to cultivate cronies and control military power, and finally became a veritable monarch with supreme power in his hands.
Just like the situation of the great man, Putimius' power was also seized through countless wars. In this process, he also established a powerful army, and the entire Daqin aristocratic class had already watched for him. For the same reason, Daqin 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 likes tea very much, even the most inferior tea bricks, he always comes. However, the massive loss of gold and silver has seriously threatened his rule, and he had to issue a tea ban.
Although the ban on tea was promulgated, it would not be possible to change the tea drinking habits of the nobles overnight, and these nobles were also the basis of Putimius’s rule of power. He had not yet had the guts to push all the nobles to The opposite of oneself. So Putimius swung the butcher knife at the caravans selling tea.