Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

At the beginning of January of the second year of Jianxing, Ma Chao rushed thousands of miles to attack Xiangping. Xiangping guards Yang Zuo, Lunzhi, Gongsun Heng, Han Qi and others rebelled, and Gongsun Yuan and his son were captured alive.

Afterwards, General Gongsun Yuan Bei Yan, who was stationed outside the city, surrendered, and tens of thousands of Liaodong troops disarmed.

There was not even a fight with real swords and guns. The cavalry of the Han army suddenly rushed outside the city of Xiangping in the icy and snowy winter, and Liaodong voted.

No way, the strength gap between the two sides is too great.

Gongsun Yuan also hoped that the imperial court would not make a big move against him in winter, and wanted to continue to delay the time when he was sent to Luoyang to be raised as piglets, so he didn't want to move his nest.

But I didn't expect that because of killing Jia Fan, the hearts of the people below were unstable, and they were eventually taken down by Lunzhi Yang Zuo and others.

In February, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao sent people to send Gongsun Yuan and his son to Luoyang, and Liaodong has been peaceful since then.Around March, the Han Dynasty sent officials to govern, and the world was completely unified.

Perhaps the only thing that has not been recovered is the Western Regions.

But the Western Regions are too far away, thousands of miles away from Chang'an.Now that the big man has just been recovered, there is a lot of waste to be done, and it is more necessary to invest time in construction and rest, instead of continuing to send troops and resort to militarism.

Therefore, the imperial court was not in a hurry to attack the Western Regions. Instead, in April of the second year of Jianxing, Liu Chan officially moved his capital to Luoyang, and dispatched imperial examination officials from all over the country to start recuperating.

At that time, it was the best rest time for the big man.Although it is in the middle of the Second Little Ice Age, agricultural productivity has improved a lot.

What the common people need is a stable living environment. Coupled with the turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty, the development of the aristocratic manor system was broken. Liu Bei and Liu Chan's father and son devoted themselves to land reform, suppressed the powerful aristocratic families, and returned the land to the common people.

Under various favorable conditions, most of the more than 3000 million Han people in the world became self-cultivating farmers with land, which greatly promoted the agricultural and economic development of the feudal dynasty.

The peak of the economic development of the feudal dynasty was the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty did not restrain land mergers, and a large number of floating population flooded into the city. Coupled with the vigorous development of the handicraft industry and the navigation of sea commerce, the economy was extremely prosperous. It can be called a model of feudal dynasty economy in the past.

But it sacrificed a large number of landless peasants in this way, and many became homeless and became refugees, so that the Song Dynasty became the dynasty with the most peasant uprisings in all dynasties, and various official and unofficial histories added up to nearly a thousand times.

The economic development achieved in such a deformed way was too rough. As a result, the Song Dynasty was forced to absorb a large number of refugees into the Xiang army, which made the army's combat effectiveness low, and was eventually eliminated by the Kingdom of Jin.

At present, Dahan is not taking such a deformed path, mainly to improve agricultural productivity, and then encourage the development of private handicraft manufacturing to promote economic prosperity.

Although the economic development in this way is far inferior to that of the Song Dynasty, this is the normal direction.

It seems that in the new era of later generations, agriculture is also developed first, and then the hundreds of millions of people can afford to eat before the reform and opening up. It is a reason to promote the economy.

So in the fifth year of Jianxing, after several years of vigorous development, the country's grain production has increased significantly every year, and the price of grain has plummeted from a few thousand yuan per stone to tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan per stone in the late Han Dynasty to one or two hundred yuan. , and then to thirty or forty dollars a stone.

This is still the result of the imperial court's deliberate control. It collected a large amount of grain from the people, and raised a little tax appropriately, and collected the grain into granaries in various places.

What is the concept of five dollars and one stone of grain.

That is to say, more than ten grams of copper can buy 223 kilograms of Han Jin, and 27 kilograms of grain in later generations. In conversion, a few cents can buy 27 kilograms of rice in later generations.

Although the productivity is different, the value of these more than ten grams of copper cannot be completely equivalent to a few cents in later generations, but the difference is not particularly large.

Therefore, if the price of grain is too low, it will hurt farmers, so the imperial court purchased grain on a large scale to stabilize the grain to a certain extent.

What to do when there is food?
Make money!

There was sufficient food and the population increased substantially.

Shen Chen had planned long ago, opened a geological department, recruited a large number of geological talents, and searched for gold, silver, copper, and iron mines all over the country.

One generation does one generation's work. It is still too early to start an industrial revolution. He can only pave the way for now.

Therefore, the imperial court state-owned all mineral resources and exploited them extensively.

Due to the substantial increase in steel production, steel farm implements and tools have gradually become popular, and mining efficiency has greatly increased.

More importantly, Dahan encouraged private inventions and creations. Although the high-efficiency steam engine has not yet been developed, many useful inventions and creations have been reported to the government over the past few years, obtained patents, and promoted to the whole country.

In addition, apart from planning the development of the country, Shen Chen devoted himself to writing books, promoting mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc., stipulating punctuation marks, Arabic numerals, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, etc., and at the same time discovered mechanics, gravitation, electromagnetism, etc. force and so on.

His famous quote is "give me a fulcrum, and I will lift the whole universe".

In just a few years, the great Han has flourished, and its economy, culture, politics, and academics have been greatly improved. It is quite a new atmosphere of Wenjingzhizhi, Hanxuan Zhongxing, Guangwu Zhongxing, Mingzhangzhizhi, and Yongyuanzhilong.

The only thing that cannot be compared is the prosperous age of Han Wu.

Because the prosperity of the Han Dynasty was not as good as other times in terms of economy and culture, but the virtues of martial arts were too abundant, and the barbarians from all over the world were subdued, and they even made an expedition to Dawan and went to Central Asia.

It's just that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to do this because of his accumulated accumulation, which was due to the accumulation of decades of Wenjing's rule.

There are two situations on the big man's side that he can't learn from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to greatly increase his martial arts.

One is that Liu Chan has just ended the chaos in just a few years, and his accumulated family background is far from the 40-year heritage of Wenjingzhizhi like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Second, there are no battles to fight right now.

In the Western Han Dynasty, there were at most more than 50 countries in the Western Regions, and gradually became the 36 countries in the Western Regions that are well known to the world.

By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were only a dozen countries left.

But now Ji Han is even fewer, only six or seven are left. In the third year after Ji Han eliminated Cao Wei, he sent envoys to express his willingness to surrender.

Therefore, Ji Han is actually like Cao Wei in history, sending people to the Western Regions to be the long history of the Western Regions.

But because it is too far away, taxes cannot be collected, and soldiers cannot be recruited, which means obedience in name. In fact, each country still manages its own.

The Western Regions surrendered on the surface, and the Xianbei, Wuhuan, and Southern Xiongnu in the northern grasslands also all expressed their surrender.The Nanman in Jianzhou are now almost turning into big Han people, mining ore in various parts of Yunnan and sending them to Shuzhong every day.

There are also Shanyue, Baipu, Jiren, Qiangdi, Wuximan and other ethnic minorities, all of whom are submissive and accept the rule of the Han, and even the leaders accept the Han officials.

However, the rule of Southwest Jianzhou still belongs to the rule of Jimi, and the leaders of the tribes submit to the big Han and make sacrifices for the big Han.

The rest, like Shanyue, Baipu, Jianren, Qiangdi, and Wuximan, basically lived in the hinterland of Han. Wuximan is in Jingxiang.

Because they are very close to the territory of the Han people, their rule was also greatly influenced by the Han people. Coupled with the surrender of the leaders, they gradually merged with the Han people and became one of the ancestors of the Han people in later generations.

Therefore, there are actually very few Hu people rebelling within the entire Han Dynasty.

The surrounding external forces are also basically calmed down.

And during this period of time, Southern shipping business also developed.

After Jiangdong was wiped out, the Jiangxia navy in the south was almost useless and could no longer participate in the Northern Expedition.

So at that time Shen Chen ordered them to go south from the Lishui River, build a port in Panyu County, Nanhai County, and set up the Dahan Navy. The fleet passed by Yizhou in the east, Luzon in the south, and Jiaozhi in the west.

Even further away in Mayi, Sulu, Huluo and other places, there are already footprints of Han ships.They set up supply stations along the seashore and carried out large-scale exploration of Southeast Asia.

And these operations started as early as the south of Liu Bei's Dingding, so the South China Sea Navy's exploration progress is very high, not only regaining Jiaozhi County, but also heading towards the Bay of Bengal.

In the third year of Jianxing, the internal stability of the Han Dynasty was stable, and the economy, trade and agriculture were developed. The imperial court expanded the navy again, built ports in Qingzhou and Liaodong, named Donghai Navy, and began long-distance voyages to the land of Sanhan and Japan.

Apart from recovering Jiaozhi and establishing Han Chinese rule, there are no other actions in the current exploration.

The main reason is that the Han people have no basis for ruling in the local area, and the local barbarians may not necessarily obey their governance. However, the current population of the Han people in China is small, and it is still difficult for them to immigrate abroad and establish a foundation in other places.

Therefore, not to mention colonization, it is difficult to achieve even custodial rule.The small population and low scientific and technological capabilities are still the weaknesses of Dahan, and it will take many years to develop before it can expand outward.

However, exploring outwards is not completely fruitless. Although it cannot expand outwards, it can carry out geological surveys and commercial trade.

Geological survey is to draw a map, draw the blueprint of Dahan and all the surrounding wild lands, and there will be geologists on board to explore the land everywhere, marking the minerals that the indigenous people in various places cannot mine, and planning for the future.

In addition, Southeast Asia is rich in products and there are many indigenous peoples. Through ceramics, silk, mulberry, iron and other Han specialties, a large amount of gold, silver, copper and iron ore can be exchanged in Southeast Asia, as well as spices, wood, fur, medicinal materials, cinnabar, sulfur, and saltpeter. Wait, let the big man gain a lot.

In addition, as early as the first year of Jianxing, the gunpowder formula had been successfully perfected.

For this reason, Dahan established the Firearms Bureau, specializing in the manufacture and development of firearms. In the following years, muskets, cannons and other things came out one after another, and some skilled craftsmen even made percussion flintlock guns under the guidance of Shen Chen.

The percussion flintlock itself was produced in the middle of the 16th century AD, not a product of the industrial revolution.As long as the gunpowder formula is perfect, craftsmen can find a way to make it.

After several years of development, firearms were basically equipped in large quantities by the tenth year of Jianxing, that is, in 237 AD.

The birth of new weapons has obviously brought about a revolutionary change in the strength of the Great Han. In the ten years of Jianxing, the elite corps owned by the Great Han is about 20, which is divided into five military regions, namely the Youzhou Military Region, the South Sea Division, and the East China Sea. Division, as well as the Central Army and the Liangzhou Military Region.

Basically, each military region has formed a part of the firearms battalion, the number of which ranges from several thousand to ten thousand.

With the emergence of firearms, the grassland peoples who had surrendered to the Han Dynasty completely sang and danced. In the ninth year of Jianxing, because the winter in Monan was too cold this year, many cattle and sheep froze to death, making it difficult for many small tribes to survive.

These small tribes joined together, thinking that through the trade with the big man over the years, they had more steel weapons, saddles, stirrups, and horseshoes, which could compete with the big man, so they went south to invade.

As a result, not long after entering the Great Wall, in Yanmen, Shanggu and other places, they encountered the Han army sent by the Youzhou Military Region to deal with them. After several rounds of riding and shooting, the Xianbei Hu people completely retreated outside the pass.

This time the Hu people's southward movement still had a great impact on the Han Dynasty, because the Han Dynasty had been calm for many years, and the world was peaceful, but suddenly moved swords and soldiers, which made Liu Chan furious, and ordered the Youzhou Military Region to send troops directly outside the Great Wall to completely annihilate the Han Dynasty. These Xianbei tribes.

But not long after, these tribes surrendered one after another, and then reported to the court, telling the court that Kebineng, Budugen and other forces were behind this.

Upon learning of this, the ruling and opposition parties were shocked.

In addition to Ji Han's founding of the country, although Wu De was not as abundant as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the surrounding Hu tribes had basically been subdued, and they all bowed their heads to the big Han, so they did not send troops outside the Great Wall.

But I didn't expect that the great Han had been in peace for several years, and his strength was getting stronger and stronger. Instead, some people started to commit suicide, obviously underestimating the great Han's national strength.

For a while, the voices of sending troops to exterminate the Xianbei people were clamoring.

This next step Dugen and Kirby can be dumbfounded.

They originally just wanted to test the strength of the imperial court, thinking that no matter how strong the big man is, it should not be so easy to parry in the face of tens of thousands of Hu people from many tribes heading south.

If the Han Dynasty was powerful, they would pretend to be a peacemaker and come out to persuade the big man to give some food and grass to help the Xianbei people survive this winter.If the Han Dynasty was just showing off, then it would simply start to backlash, establish itself as king, and go south to start looting.

However, the big man didn't even mobilize the main force. He just sent a military region on the border with less than 2 troops, and easily defeated the Hu people without any damage, which made them terrified.

Now that the conspiracy was exposed, Kebi Neng and Bu Dugen hurriedly asked the court for forgiveness.

But the kindness of the imperial court does not mean that they are weak and can be bullied. After the cabinet meeting, it was finally decided that the Youzhou Military Region would send troops to the north of the fortress. Kirby and Budugen had to pay enough to appease the anger of the big man.

For a while, the Hu people in Monan were in a mess.

Many tribes did not dare to be enemies with the Han, and were completely coerced. Wherever the Han soldiers went, countless people surrendered, and many Xianbei and Wuhuan tribes fled all the way north.

One of Kebi Neng and Budugen was driven to the Daxianbei Mountains, which is northwest of Daxingan Mountains, and the other was driven to Beihai.

Since then, the prestigious name of the Great Han has shaken all directions.

Taking advantage of this great victory, the Jihan court officially began to use troops against the Western Regions.

With horseshoes, horses can travel long distances. After more than ten years of development, food and grass are abundant. The Liangzhou Military District has sent more than 1 soldiers and horses to the Western Regions. Take control in your own hands.

In this way, the Silk Road, which has resumed commerce and trade due to the stability of the Han Dynasty in recent years, will also be within the control of the Han Dynasty. In this way, the collection of business taxes will bring a steady stream of income to the court!

By the 12th year of Jianxing, that is, in 239 A.D., the great Han had completely controlled Monan and the Western Regions, and the abundance of martial arts was even more than that of the prosperous Han Dynasty.