Han Shizu

Chapter 731 The Peace Covenant Was Broken
When the affairs are constantly repeated, the passage of time is always fast. From autumn to winter, Liu Chengyou's schedule has become more and more regular, and he is constantly inspecting, approving, and handling various similar military affairs. spent.A bit tiring, but fun.

Since Jinghu was pacified, the overall domestic situation in Dahan has been relatively stable, with no external troubles, no internal disasters, and everything is calm.In terms of overall policy, they began to recuperate again to alleviate the impact of the war.

Although the Han Dynasty has become more and more peaceful in recent years, it has almost never been without war. Looking back, in the nine years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, war has always been its main theme.Suppressing rebellion internally and expanding territory externally, although both achieved great victories, under the background of war, it is definitely not benign to the lives of the people.

Every time there is a war, people must be recruited to serve before the army. In addition, there are many projects for the imperial court, such as building cities, roads, canals, and rivers. It can be said that until the eighth year of Qianyou, under the grandeur of the Han Dynasty, still It is inevitable that the army and the people will be exhausted.Successive war victories can hardly hide the exhaustion behind it.If you take a walk around the place, you will find that the life of the Han people in the world is still very hard, and there is still a gap between "sufficiency and clothing".

However, compared with previous turmoil, the domestic situation has always remained stable, the political situation has been balanced, the vassals and towns have been cut off, and the court under Liu Chengyou has adjusted policies from time to time to gradually ease and release the pressure and resentment of the people.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Xuanwei, the mouthpiece of the imperial court, began to gradually exert its functions, and the praises of the Han emperor for many years still had the effect of bewitching and soothing people's hearts.For the people at the bottom, as long as they can survive, there is no need to rebel, and the court's several large-scale disaster relief operations have really harvested a lot of people's hearts.

Since the beginning of autumn, the biggest change in the court has been the "Guo family incident", but it only stayed at the political level. Although the impact was great, the movement was small.In addition, there was a nationwide investigation of prisons. In the past three months, with the cooperation of the imperial envoys and local officials, a total of tens of thousands of prison lawsuits were cleared, including more than [-] major cases involving human life.

In this process, hundreds of officials who were negligent and evil in government were also dealt with. The high-ranking officials involved the state government and Taoist officials, and involved several officials in the court. Among them, the minister of punishment was taken down, and the minister Both Li Tao and Fan Zhi were reprimanded by Liu Chengyou.This is also Liu Chengyou's rectification of the administration of officials. When he first issued the "clearing the punishment and prison edict", he probably had this in mind.

At the same time, after a series of tedious discussions and implementations, the Dahan New Province political system was introduced. Hebei, Henan, and Gyeonggi were divided into five provinces, namely Hebei West, Hebei East, Huaibei, Gyeonggi, and Ginan.

After entering the winter, Kaifeng was gradually shrouded in cold and chill. The sky was dark and white, the cold wind was blowing, and the lights in the Chongzheng Hall were also cold.Under the light of the palace candles, the emperor of Han sat down to discuss politics with several ministers. It has been more than an hour, and it is still not over.

"Your Majesty, Pan Mei, Quan Yong's inspection envoy, has returned from the south of the Ling River to the north, and presented to the imperial court. The peace treaty between the two countries has been concluded, and the peace agreement is here. Please have a look at it!" Li Tao got up and presented the book to Liu Chengyou.

After flipping through it casually, Liu Chengyou couldn't help but smile: "This Liu Sheng is still straightforward after all, and he didn't reply to any of them, but agreed to everything!"

"Those people who have forgotten their ancestors are forced by the power of our court. In order to seek peace for a while, they can easily give up the title of the country, and their defeat is not far away!" Li Tao sighed.

"I've heard that the ones who persuaded Liu Sheng were the eunuchs, palace servants, Lin Yanyu and Lu Qiongxian!" Liu Chengyou looked as if he understood his feelings.

Fan Zhi's rigid face could not help showing contempt: "The great state affairs of the country are in the hands of eunuchs and maidservants, which shows Liu Sheng's incompetence. Your Majesty only temporarily stopped the conquest, but he thought he was safe, and his ears are dead in the grave!"

"How can mere eunuchs and maidservants mess up their politics? The root cause lies with Liu Sheng. His traitor, my hero, will destroy Panyu in the future, seize Na Lin and Lu, and leave their entire corpses!" Show pride.

"Do you know why Lingnan has changed its country name?" Liu Chengyou asked.

"It was originally intended to be 'Dayue', but Pan Mei was in Panyu, and she was not enough to be called 'Dayue' because she was in Panyu. On the fifteenth day of this month, Liu Sheng went to the suburbs of Beijing to pay homage to the ancestral temple, changed the name of the country to 'Yue', and lowered himself to be the lord of Guangdong!" Li Tao reported.

Nodding his head, he stared at the item of annual tribute and looked again. The big man opened his mouth wide. The proposal was 1000 catties of gold, 3000 catties of silver, 2000 bolts of silk, [-] catties of medicinal materials, and [-] shi of rice.However, Nanhan didn't mean to bargain at all, it was very bold.

After thinking about it for a while, he ordered: "The Lingnan Sui Gong, except for the gold, silver, and silk that will be sent to Tokyo, the medicinal materials and rice will be kept in Hunan for future use. Obviously, this arrangement is for future use of the tribute." The meaning of food and attack.

"Yes!"

"Over there in Hunan, let's transfer some more money!" Liu Chengyou looked at Xue Juzheng, the third envoy, "It's not easy for Zan Jurun and the others to clean up the mess over there!"

"Yes!"

After nearly half a year, the situation in Hunan has finally stabilized completely. The most important food shortage problem has been solved. Relief for the people has consumed more than [-] shi of grain.

The Taoist yamen is basically complete, the merger of prefectures and counties is progressing smoothly, the ruling order of each prefecture and county has also been consolidated, and various policies and laws of the Han Dynasty have been promulgated extremely efficiently.

The compilation and statistics of household registration have also yielded results. According to the report of Jinghu Daosi in August, under Jinghu Dao, except for the three places in Jingnan, there were a total of 93788 households, of which 20387 were newly compiled, including some liberated hermits and refugees. , as well as bandits, thieves, and barbarians who were suppressed.

With the help of Qin Zaixiong and other Yao and Miao leaders to subdue the barbarians in Wuzhou, a total of 7362 barbarian households were compiled successively, and the results are gratifying.Although there were still some who were stubborn and even invaded the prefectures and counties, they were all severely suppressed by the guarding Han army.For the sake of law and order, suppression and appeasement have always been used together. Although the appeasement is gentle, the extermination is also merciless.

As for the redistribution of land and means of production, it is still being implemented. Hunan has a vast territory, but is sparsely populated, with criss-cross water veins and a lot of arable land.The land conflict is secondary, the population is the main one, and the imperial court mainly plunders and controls, and those who are placed in the register are still the householders.Looking at the situation in Hunan, land reclamation and agricultural development are far from being saturated, and there is still a lot of space left.

"Pan Mei went to Panyu in the south of September. If it was the end of October, it lasted for more than forty days. He stayed in Lingnan for such a long time. I think he gained a lot!" Liu Chengyou said again.

Previously, after receiving the goodwill from Lingnan, the emperor did not send anyone from Tokyo, but ordered Pan Meichi, who was staying in Hunan, to go to Panyu to sign the treaty with full authority.From this matter, it can be seen that Liu Chengyou attaches great importance to Pan Mei, and, in the matter of peace talks, sending generals instead of civil servants has profound meaning in itself.

When Pan Mei was ordered to go south, Pan Mei had received a secret order from the emperor, asking him to go there in person to inspect the geography, transportation, people's conditions, and military equipment of Lingnan, in order to prepare for the future southern expedition.And from the emperor's secret order, Pan Mei also realized that he would be of great use when he marched in the future, so she was very careful and stayed in Lingnan for so long just now.

At this time, after hearing Liu Chengyou's emotion, Chai Rong got up again, and reported: "Your Majesty, the Privy Council has received a letter from Pan Mei, in which he wrote a letter to the enemy's military affairs, deployment, and city defenses that he observed along the Lingnan Road. It is very detailed and has drawn up a strategy for marching southward, please review it by Your Majesty!"

"This Pan Mei is so impatient, can't he hold back? I asked him to sign the peace treaty, but he was thinking about going south to use troops, and he even thought about the strategy of marching!" After reading the memorandum, Liu Chengyou held the album in his hand, He scolded with a smile in his mouth.

The smile gradually disappeared, Liu Chengyou looked at Chai Rong, and said quietly: "Although the peace treaty has been reached, we need to start preparations in advance for marching south!"

Knowing this, Chai Rong replied calmly to Liu Chengyou and said, "Your Majesty, according to the previous regiments, Jinghu soldiers and horses have been properly arranged, and the lands of Quan and Chen have begun to conduct training for crossing the mountains to the south. In addition, Ping The cutting army has been formed, and the [-] soldiers are all strong men from Miao and Yao in Wuzhou, and they are going to be transferred to Yongzhou for training, and there are [-] other military academies to serve as them!"

After a pause, Chai Rong continued: "The privy plan is to hoard military supplies, food and grass in Hunan for two years, train the main soldiers of the Southern Expedition, and then choose the time to mobilize troops according to changes in the current situation!"

"Okay!" Liu Chengyou nodded slightly: "Liu Sheng wants peace, so I will give him two years of peace!"

As for two years later, perhaps within two years, the paper peace agreement can be torn up.In this process, the Han Dynasty had to tear up the peace agreement with Meng Shu first.

(End of this chapter)