The first month of the second year of the Han Yanping.

Whether you are rich or poor, you have to celebrate the New Year. Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was no exception.

On the first day of the first month, the Son of Heaven led his ministers to worship Gaozu and Shizu Temple. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, sacrifice heaven and earth and pray for a good harvest. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, worship Yuntai. On the same day, the Son of Heaven issued an order to Yang Biao and Lu Bu to withdraw their troops, and the two families entered the imperial court to govern together.

All such political activities were carried out under the head of the minister. Due to the great decline of Yang Biao's strength, Hongnong Yang's control over Luoyang has decreased a lot, and he is unable to fully interfere with Liu Xie, and because Lu Bu is almost a soldier in the city, Yang Biao can only accept the mediation of Fu Wan Dong Cheng and others, saying that he can sit down with Lu Bu to discuss some follow-up governance issues and no longer march troops.

Fu Wan and others celebrated with their crowns, and they had a feeling of a new year, a new dynasty, and a new atmosphere.

Yang Biao's body and mind were very devastated, and before the New Year, he heard that he was sick, Yang Xiu hurriedly rushed back, and served day and night to take care of it personally. Yang Xiu, who was originally a noble son, gradually realized that life was not easy, and he and Yang Biao huddled in Hongnong County, whether they were comforting each other and licking their wounds, or accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity is unknown.

Lu Bu's army, well, is not a big army, anyway, if it is not divided into auxiliaries and people, it can barely gather 10,000 people, drive into Luoyang, meet Liu Xie, the son of heaven, and start a new journey.

Liu Xie, the son of heaven, ignored Yang Biao, he finally walked from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and it took four or five years to really take this step!

On the tenth day of the first month, Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven, paraded the army at the head of Luoyang City, of course, it was Lu Bu's army. Immediately, Liu Xie returned to the palace to accept the congratulations of hundreds of officials, and officially sat alone on the throne, his mood was as complicated as that of a daughter-in-law who had become a mother-in-law for many years, with joy and worry.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Son of Heaven convened a great court meeting for the first time, and the focus of the deliberations was mainly on how to calm down the chaos in the world and return to the original order as soon as possible.

Zhongxing, these two words have a lot of weight in Liu Xie's heart, including his father Emperor Ling of Han. At the beginning, Emperor Ling of Han also tried his best to hold the government for a while, and also wanted to pull the runaway carriage of the Han back into the road, but unfortunately, in the end he still failed.

And now, Liu Xie wants to pick up these two words again.

How to complete the great cause of ZTE?

First of all, the government decree should be unified, like now, the counties and counties are independent, and the situation that the imperial court decree cannot be issued by Henan Yin is not Zhongxing, so in the face of the fact that the princes of the counties and counties are large and small, and the distribution is uneven, what method can be used to pacify the world as soon as possible?

"Your Majesty! Weichen only needs to ride 5,000 iron, and he can gallop all over the world! Pacify the thieves! Lu Bu said in a lofty manner, "For Your Majesty, you will clear the world, and return the Han Lang Lang Qiankun!" Lu Bu believes that as long as Fu Wan and the others do a good job of logistics, they don't need to worry about the war, and the five thousand iron cavalry plus more than 10,000 auxiliary soldiers and civilians are quite a powerful attack corps, plus their own martial arts are enough to fight in the north and south.

"Your Majesty, you can take a small county first, accumulate small victories, and gather troops, and you can win a big victory. With the strategy of Weichen, you can take Yanzhou and Qingzhou first......" Lu Bu is not completely empty talk, but also has some calculations in his heart, his plan is very simple and practical, that is, now in the name of His Majesty, crusade against the surrounding counties with relatively small strength, and then collect soldiers while accumulating strength, and then fight with the great princes......

"General Lu!" Fu Wan frowned, and had to come forward to interrupt Lu Bu's high-minded talk. Lu Bu's plan is completely an inference under the ideal state, and the actual situation is obviously a lot more complicated, at the moment Er Yuan divides the north and south, and Lu Bu plans to clean up these small counties first, don't you know that these small counties are basically the tentacles that Er Yuan stretched out, if it really hurts Er Yuan, if he can't keep Er Yuan, he will join forces and kill him directly!

But the problem is that Lu Bu is the one who his gang has just recovered, and he can't lose Lu Bu's face in person, and it is not beautiful to have an estrangement, so Fu Wan pondered and said: "General Lu's strategy may also be, but the reserves in the DPRK and China are insufficient, and there is not much grain and grass, so it is really unbearable to conquer on a large scale......

Lu Bu frowned, three lines were deeply erected in the middle of his forehead, he glanced at him, hesitated, closed his mouth, retreated, and did not speak.

After so many years, Lu Bu has more or less understood, and since he said so, he will give him some face, and if the dispute continues, both sides will not look good.

Yuan Shao is the enemy of the imperial court, and so is Yuan Shu, in addition to these two forces, the other forces are generally objects that the imperial court can unite.

According to Lu Bu's original plan, he only needs to unite with Fei Qian, he can gather a large number of cavalry troops, and then attack the area of Qingzhou in Yanzhou first, disrupt the battlefield, and wait for one of the two Yuan to show a flaw, then he can drive straight in, like a sharp knife piercing into the chest, directly take the head of the general among the ten thousand troops, and take the head of one of the two Yuan!

At that time, as long as one of the two Yuan falls, the world will inevitably shake, and the other forces around it will inevitably stop, and when the time comes, they will return to the army to solve the remaining Yuan, and the world will naturally be easily pacified. As long as the two sources of turmoil, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, are eliminated, the great cause of Zhongxing can be completed within a few years.

However, Fushiwan believes that the most important thing now is not to raise troops immediately, but to adjust the land system and taxes first. Without money and food, there is no way to fight a war and no way to pacify the world.

Last year, Heluo was affected by the disaster, and the autumn harvest field was greatly reduced, and the taxes of the local counties and counties were basically all intercepted, resulting in the reduction of the money and grain of the imperial court to a very low value, and the Heluo area was caused by the previous Dong Zhuo and Li Guo, which led to a large loss of population, so it was necessary to take advantage of the current time when there was still some spare power, resettle the displaced people to organize production, increase taxes and stabilize the people.

On the one hand, the use of tuntian can stabilize the political power, show the court's attitude of pursuing peace, and eliminate its vigilant mentality, on the other hand, it can also reopen up the barren land for cultivation, which can not only avoid the difficulty of large-scale cultivation of the small scholar clan Haoyou, but also allow the imperial court to directly control the land and obtain sufficient taxes and money and grain income, which is a good thing to count in one fell swoop......

Liu Xie listened, perhaps because of the embarrassment of the finances in the Chang'an period before him, he was deeply impressed, so when Fu finished talking about the strategy, Liu Xie thought for a while, and then approved the plan to promote Fu Wan, temporarily not to attack various places, first develop their own strength, and reserve money and food.

Of course, Liu Xie did not forget to appease Lu Bu, saying that he only needed Lu Bu to train his soldiers and horses, and he would soon have the opportunity to go into battle and kill the enemy......

After the general direction of the strategy was decided, it was inevitable to continue to delve into some details, one of which was related to the general of the expedition to the west, that is, the five baht money and the expedition to the west Tongbao.

Originally, during the Western Han Dynasty, the three officials of Shanglin Yuan, Zhong Guan, Copper Order, and Junlozenge Order, were responsible for minting the world's coins, and once took back the right to mint money, but later because the interests of coinage in various places were too great, so in the end, when the imperial power was not stable, it was almost impossible to control the private coinage, and even the royal bloodline, the princes from all over the country took the lead in digging up the corners of the Han Dynasty, and finally the national minting right was gone......

There is a difference between the copper coin and the actual item, for example, the usual market price of a five-baht coin can be exchanged for a dough cake, but in fact, the value of the metal used in a five-baht coin itself is not worth a dough cake, so the difference is obtained by the minter.

This truth, basically people who have played minting coins understand, so when the Tongbao of Zhengxi appeared on the market, although everyone felt that this Tongbao was better than the original hemp money and corn eye money, and even better than the general five-baht money, but this kind of thing has always been a matter of small profits and quick turnover, although the profit of a coin is very small, but all the coins in the world are used to collect the West Tongbao, then the accumulation is quite considerable.

And judging from the speed of circulation of Zhengxi Tongbao, ordinary people are still more willing to accept this kind of coin with better quality and more exquisite patterns, whether it is more convenient to stay or spend it.

If it weren't for the fact that inferior coins such as corn-eye money and hemp clip money have been rejected by many merchants and ordinary people, maybe bad money will drive out good money again.

Before the potential merger of the north, the use of inflation to harvest a wave of wealth, and the harvest of wealth of the Shi Hao and the right busy will be smashed in the hands of these inferior coins spent, and even some guys in order to recover the loss did not hesitate to melt the original five baht coins, and again minted a large number of worse coins, further aggravated the depreciation of the coin, the final result is to lead to the complete collapse of the surrounding coin order, whether it is the Shi clan who have suffered a loss, the people, all refuse to accept inferior coins, Even the five-baht coin, which was originally of good quality, was implicated and was basically difficult to use.

Therefore, in the Heluo area, the people would rather barter than accept inferior coins, and those inferior coins are the same as the paper money that lost the national credit in later generations, which is worse than waste paper, which leads to the gradual loss of the market for inferior coins, and the market in the Heluo area once cut off the circulation of coins.

At present, the imperial court wants to re-establish the tax system, so for the question of rebuilding the order of coins, whether to use Fei Qian's levy of the West Tongbao or the original five-baht coin has become the focus of debate.

On the one hand, some people say that there were furnaces and craftsmen for coining money in the original city of Luoyang, and what was needed was the next edict to abolish the levy of Xitongbao and re-mint and circulate five-baht coins.

On the other hand, some people also suggested that since the people were willing to accept the new money and were unwilling to charge five baht money, they should let Zhengxi pay tribute to a set of craftsmen and equipment for casting Tongbao.

Some people said that even if they received the minting of Zhengxi, there would be princes in other regions who minted money, which could not be prohibited at all, and offended Feiqian, the general of Zhengxi, and snubbed the hearts of good ministers.

Then some people said that the minting of coins in the west was not approved by His Majesty, and where did any good ministers come from, even if there were, I am afraid that there was some discount......

Seeing that the building was gradually going to be crooked, Liu Xie hurriedly stopped the discussion of this issue, saying that it would be put on hold for the time being, and that it would be discussed after there was any new way.

Finally, there is the issue of soldiers.

Originally, the military system of the Han Dynasty was inherited from the Qin system, and the emperor was the supreme military commander, and there were two major military institutions to control the whole army. One is the Beijing division guard organization composed of Guangluxun, Wei Wei, and Zhi Jinwu, and the other is the highest military administrative body composed of Tai Wei and generals at all levels. The army of the whole country is composed of three parts, the army of the Beijing Division, the army of each county and the border army.

The Jingshi army included the Huben and Yulin armies, the southern army and the northern army. The Northern Army usually guards the Beijing Division, and when it is on the expedition, one or all of it goes out with the general. The soldiers of the county maintained local law and order in peacetime, and listened to the dispatch of the imperial court in wartime. The emperor's "tiger talisman" is needed to recruit the soldiers of the county, and when the war is tense, they will be temporarily recruited from the county.

The border army guards the border counties, and is led by the border counties and the chief of the country.

And now the Jingshi army is basically gone, the border army, the Northwest Army, that is, the general of the expedition to the west, Fei Qian, is a monopoly, and then the county soldiers in various places are independent.

Let Fei Qian lead the troops into Beijing, as long as many people think of this matter, they feel that Dong Zhuo and Li Guo are coming again, so they can't accept it categorically, but now even if these soldiers of Lu Bu are counted as the Beijing army, it is not enough to compete with the soldiers of various counties, but do you want to recruit a large number of troops and expand the troops......

Where does the money come from?

Everyone found out and was embarrassed to go back to the original question......

Liu Xie sat on the throne, looked left and right, after more than two hours of hundreds of officials arguing with each other, you and I said a word, now it is gradually losing the excitement of sitting on the throne at the beginning, a sense of exhaustion rises from the heart, spread to the whole body.

"Is this kind of court what my father has experienced before?" After all, Liu Xie is young, and his energy can't be compared with adults, so he doesn't know when he started to get distracted, looking at the top of the hall in a daze, "If my father is still here, this situation is ...... No, if it was Emperor Guangwu, what should he do when faced with such a situation? ”

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty! After finishing the performance, after speaking, he found that Liu Xie was in a trance, and couldn't help but raise his voice, "I don't know what Your Majesty means?" ”

"Huh?" Liu Xie was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously replied, "Then follow Aiqing's performance......"

As soon as the words came out, Liu Xie realized that something was wrong.

No way, this is a habit that has been cultivated since Dong Zhuo's time before, anyway, at that time, he was basically a puppet, Dong Zhuo or Li Guo said whatever he wanted, Liu Xie himself was the most proficient at the court meeting, and now he was distracted, and he naturally blurted out subconsciously.

What did you just say?

It's over, do you have to say that what you said at the first court meeting doesn't count?

Liu Xie's face turned red, and he stared at the little yellow door beside him anxiously. Xiao Huangmen was excited, and hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty is unwell, today's court meeting is suspended!" We'll talk about it tomorrow! Retreat! ”

"This!"

"Alas......"

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!" The officials were also helpless, but Liu Xie wanted to leave, and everyone was not easy to stop, so they had to bow down and adjourn the meeting for the time being......

Lu Bu frowned, lowered his head, and watched Liu Xie get off the throne and turn into the apse with the corner of his eye, then flicked his sleeves, and didn't say hello to Fu Wan and the others, and left the hall directly.

On the first day of the first month, the sky was still clear, but when Lu Bu stood outside the main hall, he felt that the sky was somewhat hazy......