If you ask Dahan what season is the most beautiful.

I believe that everyone's return is autumn.

Cultivate in the spring, be hot in the summer, harvest in the fall, and rest in the winter.

Ordinary people have lived like this for thousands of years, and they have not changed, no matter who is in power.

But this year is not a bumper harvest year, Zhang Yuan led the army all the way through the upper county of Xihe County, and most of the people he saw on the road were listless.

Zhang Yuan could only hope that they would take back all the grain quickly, otherwise it would be a real disaster to wait for the 500,000 cattle and sheep to cross the border.

However, if they can harvest all the grain before the cattle and sheep cross the border, the soil will be more fertile next year than it is this year.

"General Wei, the people's attitude towards us is not very good."

Li Jian said when he looked at the faces of the people along the way.

"This year's harvest is not very good, and the Han still has to support such a huge army, when we went there was an army of 56,000, and now there are only 20,000 left.

The people are not blind, and when they see that we have suffered so much loss, they understand that the system of the dynasty may become stricter, and their life will become difficult in the future. ”

"Haven't we always collected thirty taxes on these people?"

"You're right, but those in the powerful will find a way to make up for it from elsewhere if they want to pay more.

Hasn't the phenomenon of forced buying and selling of land always existed, and these ordinary people don't even have their own land, so how can they pay taxes?

If you can't pay taxes, you have to sell yourself into the homes of those nobles, and work for others for the rest of your life, and the identity of their sons and daughters has also been decided. ”

"I hope that the war can end as soon as possible and the lives of the people will be better."

Zhang Yuan chuckled, no matter what time it was, the life of the Chinese people was not good.

If you want to be a superior person and want a better life, you must sharpen your head and squeeze it up, and do everything.

On this road in Shangjun, Zhang Yuan has gone back and forth, this is the second time.

It took only two large-scale wars to cut off half of the power of the Huns.

In total, Zhang Yuan's goal has been achieved for the most part.

When the army was still four or five days away from Chang'an City, Liu Che sent someone to inform Zhang Yuan that except for the Yulin Army, the rest of the army would go directly back to the original station for repairs.

By the way, he took Zhang Yuan's tiger talisman back.

Although the victory was very exciting, Liu Che listened to Zhang Yuan's advice and did not carry out a big celebration.

Everyone's reward is overwhelming, and the autumn festival will be announced and awarded.

Zhang Yuan can be regarded as a person who has withstood all the pressure.

If Liu Che were to reward him at this time, the treasury would be empty all of a sudden.

But if you wait for all the taxes to be collected, the pressure will be greatly reduced.

But if you do this, the hearts of the soldiers will be half cold, as if you finally survive until the end of the year, and are ready to go home with bonuses and wages for a good year, the boss of the company tells you that only after you come back to work after the New Year will you be paid your salary and bonus for the previous month.

When everyone is angry, it's good to tell everyone that it was Xin'anhou Zhang Yuan's suggestion.

In this way, Zhang Yuan's reputation will be damaged, and Liu Che's interests will be protected, and the Han will be more stable.

After receiving Liu Che's Taifu Seal, Zhang Yuan realized how correct his move was to accept the box of treasures of the Evil King.

Zhang Yuan: This is definitely a self-defiling behavior, the bigger the official reputation, the better it is.

The reputation of being virtuous is best seen in the monarch, if you are in a high position, and the people below say that you are virtuous and sympathetic to the people, then it is the emperor's credit or your credit.

At least at this time in Dahan, there has not been any parental official statement.

In addition to their own biological parents, the people only have the parents of the emperor and empress.

When the time comes to return to Chang'an, Zhang Yuan deliberately spread the matter of receiving a gift from the evil king, so that Liu Che can pinch a small handle of his own.

To do this as a courtier, Zhang Yuan felt that he was already capable.

After Wei Qing became a very popular minister, he chose not to go out of the door of the house, and after Xiao He had no official seal, he immediately chose to steal the property of the people, and even asked Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, for the land of Shanglin Yuan to be cultivated by the people, and the angry Liu Bang put him in prison.

Zhang Yuan rode a horse on the road, and the more he thought about it, the more proud he became, if he was to get out of prison like this, it would be better to deprive the marquis and his official position.

Zhang Yuan, who was on the road, was thinking about his future, and the ladies in Chang'an City were also thinking about Zhang Yuan's future.

"Your Majesty intends to return the title of Duke Xiao to the next generation, and Xiao Qing has a daughter under his knees, who is sixteen years old.

This time, I also sent someone to send a birthday and a portrait. ”

Princess Pingyang looked at the portrait in her hand and said to Wei Qing's two sisters.

"The descendants of the Marquis of Yuwen want to take advantage of the situation?"

"That's right, they have lost their marquis for four generations, and the founding heroes of the Han Dynasty are the first to be the marquis of Yuwen, and now they are declining more and more, so they naturally want to get help from outside.

If you don't send your daughter to the palace, Xin'an Hou Zhang Yuan is the best choice. ”

Wei Junru said, and then the three women glanced at each other, and immediately decided to match this Xiao He's great-granddaughter with Zhang Yuan.

Wei Zifu in the palace is about to give birth, and there must be no other accidents at this time.

"Send someone to tell the Xiao family that you can send this young lady to the Pingyang Hou Mansion.

After Xin'anhou returns to Chang'an in a few days, I will send someone to ask him about his wishes. ”

The maidservant beside Princess Pingyang promised and withdrew.

"Young child, you go to Xin'anhou Mansion for me.

Tell Zhuo Wenjun about this matter in advance, so that she won't get into trouble when she gets into trouble. ”

"Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, why worry about the daughter of a businessman."

"Just do it, Xin'anhou is not an ordinary person, I'm afraid Zhuo Wenjun's words are more effective than His Majesty's words."

"Yes."

It's funny to think about it, Xiao He's descendants want to marry Zhang Yuan, and they can be regarded as Gao Pan.

But it's no wonder that the Xiao family has a short lifespan, and it has only been a few decades, and it has been passed down for seven or eight generations.

As long as the descendants of the founding heroes in Chang'an City are estimated to be the elders of their Xiao family.

However, the Xiao family is also the most inherited marquis in the Western Han Dynasty, and even the Cao family is not comparable.

It seems that except for Xiao He, the people of their Xiao family will not live too long if they sit in the position of Marquis.

Princess Pingyang is in a hurry to choose a wife for Zhang Yuan.

Liu Che looked at Zhang Yuan's Cewen over there, scratching his ears and cheeks and having a headache.

The abolition of the minting rights of the county is a big deal, a great thing.

A large portion of the county's income comes from this.

The taxes collected by the county government will not be kept by themselves, and basically all of them will be handed over to the imperial court.

And the way they keep themselves running is by printing money.

As long as there is a copper mine in the country, if there is no money, copper coins will be minted.

It's all about doing things within the rules.

If Liu Che takes back the right to mint coinage, in the future, the counties will have to apply to Liu Che if there is something to do.

Apply layer by layer, and then Liu Che will grant funds.

The reason why Liu Che hesitated was that he didn't figure it out.

He consciously thought that as long as it was in his hands, it would be his, and he could send you a little if he was happy, and he wouldn't send it if he wasn't happy.

In fact, he didn't know that after the revocation of the coinage right, the copper coins minted by the central government would increase, and more of these were actually printed by the counties themselves in the past.

It's like a country that takes back the land and then it sells the land again, but only for the right to use it.

This is the psychology of the rulers.

What comes into my hands is mine, and I don't care what you did before, but now you have to follow my ways.

Although Liu Che didn't figure it out, he still reorganized the official system of Shanglin Yuan according to Zhang Yuan's suggestion.

The coinage rights of the Inner History Realm were collected, and then the entire system was completely received from Zhuo Wangsun.

The effect of this is that the whole world knows that Liu Che wants to implement the five-baht coin, and the people who have already exchanged the family's copper coin for the five-baht coin from Zhang Yuan earlier are secretly happy.

They knew that Zhang Yuan must have made money when he was casting, but Zhang Yuan's heart would not be darker than Liu Che's.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the exchange ratio should be set at six to one.

There is a loss when they are smelted, and they don't have enough coins.

The court also had to pay the craftsmen a certain amount of money to be minted by the imperial court.

After the exchange ratio is six to a certain one, the value of the five baht can be increased again, which will be very convenient when collecting taxes in the future or buying things in the inner treasury and the Shaofu Shanglin Garden. ”

"Just do as you say, but first the copper coins in the hands of the people will be the mainstay, and then the nobles will be exchanged.

Zhang Yuan said that this is conducive to the circulation of five baht coins in the market as soon as possible. ”

"I understand."

Among the officials in Shanglin Yuan, Liu Che did not find a suitable candidate to manage for the time being, so he could only let Sang Hongyang worry about these problems for him first.

Counting the days, Zhang Yuan is almost in Chang'an.

Liu Che wondered if Zhang Yuan would directly accept the seal of the Taifu.

If you accept it, then it's really fun.

If he didn't accept it, Liu Che felt that he would probably look down on Zhang Yuan.

Just like that, a few days passed quickly.

Chang'an City did not hold a grand celebration ceremony, and when Zhang Yuan and the others returned to Chang'an City, they rode horses and walked on the streets, and no ordinary people even looked at them.

The last time I had fun with the people was a few years ago, and Zhang Yuan didn't often appear in the public's sight.

Because it was a victorious return, several people had to go directly to Weiyang Palace, not Jianzhang Palace.

This has been the case since the founding of Gaozu.

From the beginning of entering the city, Zhang Yuan was holding a wooden box in his hand, and the rest of the people didn't know what Zhang Yuan was in this wooden box.

Until the front hall of Weiyang Palace, Zhang Yuan handed over the sword on his body, and even put the wooden box in his hand.

There were only four people who returned to Chang'an, Zhang Yuan, Li Jian, Xue Ren and Zhang Cigong.

The remaining four lieutenants returned to their respective garrisons with the army to recuperate.

As for the Yulin Army, they also returned to the edge of Jianzhang Palace to station, and the Qimen Army returned to Ganquan Palace.

Zhang Yuan was honestly sorry for them, such a big casualty, such a big victory, and when he came back, he couldn't accept the cheers of the people, which was really a little aggrieved.

"The last general will see Your Majesty."

Entering the main hall, there were only Liu Che and two Huangmen attendants inside.

The sound of several people's armor clattering throughout the hall.

"Several of them are meritorious heroes, so hurry up."

Everyone else stood up, but Zhang Yuan continued to kneel on the ground.

"Please take back this wooden box, the last general is really not qualified to bear His Majesty's favor."

"Zhang Yuan, have you thought about it?

Take it back now, and it may be decades before you want to take it again in the future.

What will happen in these decades is still unknown. ”

"After the last general received this wooden box, he thought about it day and night.

I don't want to eat, I haven't had a good night's sleep for a long time, and I'm afraid to accept it, and I will fall ill in bed for a long time. ”

"Alright then, I'll take it back for your body's sake.

Xin'anhou has to take care of your body, you are the pillar of the Han Dynasty. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

When the Huangmen squire took the wooden box away from Zhang Yuan's hand, Zhang Yuan felt relaxed.

"The war report sent back said that Li Fu was missing and Li Shuo was captured?

What's going on? ”

"Returning to Your Majesty, the Marquis of Antou and General Li Shuo led the vanguard army to resist the Hun army Yufu Yangju Mountain.

Later, the vanguard army was dispersed, and General Li Shuo disappeared, and then learned that he was captured by the Xiongnu and sent to the city of Qidang.

General Li Fu led a cavalry to buy time for our army to retreat, and then did not find General Li Fu's body when he cleaned up the battlefield. ”

Zhang Yuan reported truthfully.

"Where is King Hutu imprisoned now?"

"The Featherwood Army camp."

"Whose documents are there?"

"Your Majesty is here, it should be true that the evil king wants to take refuge in my Han.

The Huns sunset in the West Mountain, I am afraid that I will not be able to hold on to the iron hooves of my Han for longer, the evil king of Hun was originally at odds with the Huns Dadan Yu military ministers, and it is more in his interests to take refuge in the Han. ”

After speaking, Zhang Yuan took out the letter of the Evil King from his arms.

It could have been sent to Chang'an in advance, but this matter was very important, and it was related to the attitude towards the Huns later, and Zhang Yuan did not dare to hand it over to others.

"Your Majesty, this is a letter from the Evil King of Huns."

Liu Che took the letter and opened it directly.

It was the best news he'd received in years.

The number of the entire tribe of the Hun Evil King was between 200,000 and 300,000, and the number of the Hun Tu King was about the same.

Now that the King of Hugh Tu is in his hands, the Evil King of Hun is going to surrender again.

With a population of nearly 500,000, half of the power of the Xiongnu was removed at once.

And there are so many cattle, sheep and horses, these are all big men's.

Liu Che was pleased that this was very natural.

"Who does Xin'anhou think should be sent to the Hun Evil King clan to contact?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Zhang Qian is more suitable, after all, he has lived in the Xiongnu for more than ten years and knows the customs of the Xiongnu very well.

When he goes to the tribe of the evil king, he can also deepen our understanding of the Xiongnu. ”

"If I accept the Hun Evil King tribe, what should we do with these hundreds of thousands of Huns?"

"Your Majesty can treat the Huns the same as the previous dynasty treated the Yiqu people, and over time, they will become our weapons to defend the north."