Destiny Only Han

Chapter 580 Liu Ying: If it's Chinese New Year, just do it!

In the heavy snow in Chang'an, birds are hard to find.

Since last night, there have been snowflakes like goose feathers, and the entire Chang'an City has been covered in silver, and the bustle and noise have returned to silence.

On the covered bridge from Weiyang Palace to Changle Palace, Liu Ying sat in a warm sedan chair carried by 16 people, groggy and yawning, until Lv Zhi, who was sitting beside him, couldn't stand it anymore, and stretched out his hand to him. My brain collapsed.

"What are you doing~ ouch..."

"Do you look like a prince? Sit up straight for me! Who is not good to learn from, like your father?"

In Lu Zhi's broken thoughts, Liu Ying sat upright with a face full of helplessness, feeling very bored with the New Year's Grand Meeting that she was about to attend.

Well, the main reason for this is that his behavior of reselling princes and kings' congratulatory gifts was stopped...

According to the etiquette system, when kings, marquises, and senior officials with two thousand stones in the court meet the emperor in the New Year, in addition to normal gifts, they also need to present some beautiful jade, such as jade buckets, jade jade and other ornaments.

And there are many things that are not used in the palace.

Therefore, in previous years, after the New Year, these things would be bought by Liu Ying at a low price from internal funds, and then stored, and then sold at a low price when the New Year is approaching the next year.

Although he doesn't make much money, he is stable, and he can trade some high-grade jade materials for his spare time to do some handicrafts, carve some jade ornaments to coax Lu Zhi, and increase his favorability...

Unfortunately, this comfortable time is gone forever...

Liu Ying disliked the curtains, looked at the sky full of snow outside, and felt a little bit emotional: "It's so fast, the new year has started again..."

Today is the first day of October in the 13th year of the Han Dynasty. In the original history, Liu Bang was officially called Han Gaozu in May and buried in Changling to the north of the new city...

Of course, Lu Zhi didn't know about these things, she just casually echoed Liu Ying who seemed to be "sorrowful for spring and autumn".

"Yeah, yeah, it's another year, mother is one year older..."

Oh, woman... Liu Ying turned her head, looked at Lu Zhi and said:

"Mother is just one year older, not old at all! If you don't believe me, ask them, when you stand with your sister, everyone will not think that they are mother and daughter, but they will think that they are sisters!"

Lu Zhi smiled reservedly, and stretched out his hand to touch Liu Ying's head: "You know how to please my mother if you are glib..."

Liu Ying lowered her head obediently, letting Lu Zhi touch her faucet for a while, and then looked at the heavy snow that was still falling: "With such heavy snow, I don't know if my sister's new house will be crushed." collapse……"

"You!" Lu Zhi stretched out his hand to poke him, and said with a smile: "You two brothers and sisters fight each other as soon as you meet, like enemies, but it's only been a few days since we separated, and you're thinking about it again ..."

No, I simply hope that the heavy snow will crush her house, preferably the living room... Liu Ying made a shy expression, with an expression of "I just can't hide it from my mother" and "I was hit by you".

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Changle Palace, Xuanshi Palace.

When two rows of Langzhong holding long halberds walked in and shouted the word 'police', Liu Ying stood up, and together with all the princes, generals, high-ranking officials and envoys in the palace, they respectfully formed the line of the Langzhong. Stand outside, waiting for Liu Bang's imperial chariot to drive into the palace.

After a while, Lv Zhi, who had changed into a uniform, was standing beside Liu Bang, and together they supported Taigong Liu, who had neat legs and feet, but pretended to be weak, and had to be supported by others to move freely.

After all, the Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and the Supreme Emperor had to come to such an important occasion as the New Year's Grand Meeting.

After Liu Taigong and Liu Bang and Lu Zhi were seated, the ceremony officer stepped forward and conducted the elegant music to conduct a lengthy meeting and congratulatory ceremony.

From Liu Ying's perspective, he saw that although there were many more foreign envoys who came to the court this year than in the previous year, one of them who should have come did not come.

Wusun.

Not only Liu Ying discovered this, but even the civil and military officials in the palace also discovered this.

After all, the officials of the 'Dianke' Mansion, who are responsible for the pilgrimage affairs of the princes and the leaders of the ethnic minorities and tribes, and received the officials of the counties and counties, deliberately vacated a position among the envoys of the Western Regions. The intention is self-evident.

This gang of warriors is concocting a reason to start a war again... Liu Ying curled her lips and looked away from the vacant position.

In fact, he can understand the reason why the Wusun people did not come to the pilgrimage. After all, the Wusun people did nothing, and inexplicably changed from a vassal of the Huns to a vassal of the Han Empire!
The important thing is that Wusun people feel that they are far away from the Han Kingdom, and the two sides do not border each other. Even if they don't come to express their surrender to Liu Bang, it's no big deal!
After all, if the Han Dynasty wants to conquer the Wusun people located in the east of the Hexi Corridor, it must either fly over the Hanhai Grassland west of Helan Mountain, or first penetrate the Qiang people who are entrenched in the later Qinghai area!
Qiang people, this nation can exist since the Yanhuang period!
The Xia Dynasty did not conquer them, and the Shang Dynasty did not conquer them except for capturing some Qiang slaves to cook and sacrifice to heaven. Until the rise of the Zhou people, although they drove the Qiang people from the Longxi Plateau, they also did not make the Qiang people surrender!
And this has been extended to the founding of Qin State.

After hundreds of years of bloody battles between the Qin people and Rong Di, they finally won the promised land promised by Zhou Tianzi. This group of warriors immediately set their sights on the Qiang people who sang songs and herded horses and sheep on the west side of Longshan Mountain.

So in the period of Qin Ligong, the Qin army defeated the Qiang people, repeatedly launched wars and plundered the population and sent them to Guanzhong as slaves.

The most famous of them is a Qiang slave named 'Wu yì yuán jiàn', 'Wu Yi' means slave in the Qiang language.

Aijian, like Spartacus in the west, launched a big uprising in Qin State, and ran back to the barren mountains of Longxi with his people. When facing the Qin people's fire to burn the mountain, he was possessed by Long Ma and gave himself a The entry of "unburned one" became the god and chief of the Qiang people.

And his descendants, adhering to his will, run freely in the mountains and grasslands beside Qinghai Lake.

Even after the Qin State destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, the Qiang people were still free people and did not submit to the Qin people.

Naturally, the Wusun people believe that the Qiang people will not surrender to the Han people. The Wusun people firmly believe that in this known world, only the Huns and the Gutu Shanyu are worthy of everyone's surrender. man.

This is their way of death...

But it's not their fault. After all, Chen Tang was not born yet, and no one has come to tell the world what it means to commit a strong man, and he will be punished even if he is far away!

Liu Ying looked at the eyes of all the ministers and ministers, and they all saw the idea of ​​being punished even though it was far away.

After all, today's Han Dynasty is determined to forge ahead, and it pays attention to "immediate fame", which belongs to the people from the people to the court, and there are war madness everywhere...

For example, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty failed in his first conquest of Dawan, he was able to "forgive the prisoners to defend the bandits, the young men and the border riders, and leave 6 people in Dunhuang in their spare time"...

Sixty thousand soldiers were sent from Guanzhong to Dawan thousands of kilometers away. This is something that the iron and blood of later generations will forcefully send, and the Dameng Dynasty has never even thought about it!

Compared with the Han and Tang Dynasties, Song and Ming's behavior of abandoning Yanyun Sixteen States, Liaodong Hetao, and even Jiaozhi is a cowardly and incompetent act!
The enemy is too strong, technology outflows, no horses, insufficient food, poor productivity, the Han people are farming people, the limit is reached after the 400 mm precipitation line, etc., etc., etc., are just making excuses.

Because, if you really want to be a farming nation, how can you give up the fertile plains of Yanyun? Should you digest the land in the Red River Delta, should you stabilize the land in Hetao, and clean up the fertile soil in Liaodong?

These are all enviable lands, why should the farming peoples not fight for them?

Therefore, the reason is the serious degradation of strategic incapacity and organizational power!
And all economic, political and military issues can actually be summarized into one issue: that is, the issue of distribution, that is, how should social wealth be distributed?

Today's Han Dynasty economy, and later the Tang Dynasty, have both state-owned land economy and manor economy, of which the latter accounts for the vast majority.

The tycoons who controlled the manor were fundamentally different from the landlords under the later imperial examination system.

The former has the triple identity of economic base owner, political organizer, and military organizer, while the latter is the owner of the economic base and directly controls social wealth and human resources.

The crux of the problem is that the landlords are the vassals of the regime, and the imperial examination system determines that they are just guests who can be expelled at any time, not the masters of the regime!

That is to say, the landlords are only collaborators of the dynasty, not the owners, so they will try their best to take advantage of the wall, evade taxes, hide their household registration, and then sit and watch the ebb and flow of the tide, and change their masters to beg for mercy.

Under this system, since the central government where the emperor was located was not the owner of the economic base, it lost control of manpower and material resources, and its mobilization power was extremely reduced.

They can only hire expensive soldiers, such as Dameng's servants, with high-cost and difficult-to-collect taxes.

Therefore, an imperial army with a population of tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, can only form a one-time small army, and only a few tens of thousands of habitual fighters...

Therefore, it is necessary to be cautious when fighting abroad, expanding territory and regaining lost ground.

After all, there is only so much that can be fought, and they are still elites raised after exhausting the treasury. If they are all exhausted during the foreign war, what can be used to suppress the refugee rebels who are rising and falling inside?
Therefore, it is too irritating to suggest to delete "History of Nanming".

And in the hall, even with Liu Ying and the affinity shown by Liu Bang at a higher level, those foreign envoys who came to the pilgrimage were still trembling like frightened quails.

After all, because of the absence of the Wusun people, the warriors around looked at them with murderous intent...

(End of this chapter)