"Your Majesty, Liu Biao officially sent a letter of state, hoping to abdicate and give way to the country, just hoping that you can go to Nanyang and talk about specific things. If it is said to be delivered in writing, it will take more time. "At about the end of the year, Jian Yong took a copy of the national letter passed from the Ministry of Rites and found Liu Tao.

"Did he make a mistake?" Liu Tao frowned slightly, "He has no qualifications to concede the country at all, his regime itself is a puppet regime, and from my standpoint, he is just a rebel." There is no talk of abdication and giving way to the country, only total surrender! ”

"Your Majesty, of course the other party understands this, so he pointed out that he wants to 'talk about it in detail', that is, he hopes that there will be a step to go down." Jian Yong reminded.

"That's right...... It's the end of the year......" Liu Tao said that he really didn't want to go out at this time.

"It's nothing, the specific time of the meeting is the beginning of next year." Jian Yong confirmed the date and replied.

If it's early next year, that's not a big problem. Anyway, next year, and maybe even the year after, there will be no way to continue to expand the territory for the time being. It is very likely that in the third year, the imperial examination will be held at the same time as the south, or attack Bashu.

The biggest war in the past two years is estimated to be only the exploration battle in the Western Regions. Of course, over there in Qinghai, Liu Tao also plans to go over, after all, there is the largest salt lake in China, as for whether it is the largest in the world, he has not investigated it before crossing, and it is not clear.

When necessary, I will go to Xianbei for a turn. Grass valley can't be the other party's patent, it's still very important to raid it regularly and control the grassland population.

Nor is it a purposeless massacre, we are not barbaric Hu people. We will recruit people, let them experience the joy of labor, and then slowly teach them the principles of life and the knowledge needed to live in Han China.

Chinese dialect and Chinese characters must not be missing, and in the last three years or so, if they are qualified, then in the Central Plains or other places far away from Xianbei, they will be given households. A rich man who has lived for one or two decades will make them gradually forget the Xianbei national expression on their body and throw themselves into the arms of the great Chinese nation......

Human beings are yearning for a better life, just as 50 years ago, a large number of people yearned for life on the other side of the Xiangjiang River. Now that I have gone back, I found that after deducting the duty-free shops, it was just like that, and I felt a little dilapidated and backward.

This kind of looting battle will basically only continue to bring supplies and people to the Han Dynasty, so it is natural that the more you fight, the stronger you get. If you are ruthless, destroying a country is a matter of minutes, especially a small country like the Western Regions.

I know that the Western Regions are big, but I will build a country by occupying one or two oases, and I don't know who gave them the courage.

There is still a long distance between countries, and I don't know if there is a relationship between in-laws. But it doesn't matter, basically a charge, you can almost enter the countdown to the destruction of the country.

In short, there will be almost no big things in the year after tomorrow, and there should be no small things. The biggest thing is probably the opening of the railway. But so far, this railway, in the eyes of many people, is still the result of his willfulness.

After all, there is so much iron, if all of it is used to make weapons and armor, I don't know how many people can be armed.

In addition, a lot of manpower was used to build this railway. That is, these workers are all ordinary people who have escaped, and even family members, in order to be able to obtain the status of free people, they can volunteer to help work for three years.

In particular, the imperial court also promised to arrange housing and land for them after three years.

"At the beginning of next year...... After or before the Lantern Festival? Liu Tao asked, I still remember that it would be better with a few little children in the family, and on the day of the Lantern Festival, we would make a lot of lanterns, and everyone would enjoy the lanterns and eat the Lantern Festival together.

"After that." Of course, Jian Yong knew Liu Tao's itinerary, and before the Lantern Festival, he didn't need Liu Tao to come forward, he would also reply to the other party, proposing to change the time to meet after the Lantern Festival.

After all, this is not equal diplomacy between countries, strictly speaking, the Han court, accepting the negotiations of other countries to surrender. The positions of the two sides are not equal, and the imperial court occupies the initiative.

"Then arrange the itinerary a little." Liu Tao nodded, and recently he has also been accustomed to this kind of itinerary mode of the reservation system.

The bigger the territory, the more things need to be done, and sometimes when you focus on one thing, you tend to lose track of time and delay things. If there are a few reservations and time constraints, you can make the most of your time.

Jian Yong is also becoming more and more like a big secretary, and the secretary's work is well coordinated. It's not just their own side, the Zhongshu Province and the Shangshu Province, the secretaries of high-ranking officials, are also provided by Menxia Province.

In the blink of an eye, 193 years have passed in a hurry, but compared to last year, at least this year has been very fulfilling.

Luoyang Palace also slowly adapted to it, and during the Spring Festival, I accompanied the family to have a good time at home. Until the Lantern Festival, no government affairs were handled, except for major events involving the security of the country.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Liu Tao accompanied his wife and concubines and children to enjoy the lanterns in the palace, perhaps knowing in advance that His Majesty the Han Dynasty had arranged the lanterns, and the people also spontaneously organized the lanterns.

The lantern festival itself is also ancient, but after the introduction of Buddhism, it began to have some religious significance. Liu Taocai didn't care about this, he sent someone to make lanterns, just because his parents took him to see the lanterns when he was a child, for him, this is one of the memories of the Lantern Festival.

It's a pity that the fireworks party is gone, but this thing itself is also a custom that gradually formed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it is not forced. If one day in the future, fireworks are really made, it is estimated that environmental protection issues will also be taken into account, and it is good to only set up one or two places every year. Anyway, the fireworks are in the sky, and they are faintly visible more than ten miles away.

It is also possible to increase the consumption tax on fireworks and use them to invest in environmental protection causes, which is better than banning them outright. Moreover, the fixed-point sale of fireworks can also prevent some people from buying some inferior fireworks, and it is not good if there is an accident......

In the end, it is still the Lantern Festival, sesame seeds have been in this era, but unfortunately peanuts have not. It is rumored to have come from the Western Regions, and it is also said that it has come from the Americas, but there is no such thing as yet.

Sesame stuffed rice balls, red bean filled rice balls, with ginger syrup, quite a kind of childhood taste. The rice balls must be big, and the table tennis balls must be big to be called rice balls, and that kind of small rice balls are soulless.

"Are you going out?" After the Lantern Festival, Liu Tao began to prepare to go south, Cai Yan held his big belly and stepped forward to ask.

Yes, she is pregnant again, Liu Tao doesn't avoid anything at all, and the woman doesn't mind having more. Even from the perspective of the harem concubines, being able to conceive is a manifestation of His Majesty's pampering of himself. If you change to someone who is not favored, it is also problematic to be able to conceive that.

Liu Tao's side, naturally, doesn't mind creating a nation, anyway, as long as he follows the concept of the border county king.

Either he is crowned king, or he has no identity at all, he can't blame his father for being ruthless, and he doesn't limit his civil and military careers. In the military examination, no matter how bad it is, it is nothing to buy some land with some money and live a small life as a landlord.

"That's how it is when he is the emperor...... Nothing, I'll be back in a few days. Liu Tao smiled and began to go out.