The little fat man obviously didn't think of this, Confucianism in this period has a strong sense of mission and a strong ability to accept, but anyone who can respect Confucius and read the scriptures, regardless of region, nationality, Confucianism can be perfectly absorbed, and become one of the territories under the Confucianism system Dong Zhuo suddenly found that there was no need to catch the prisoners himself, and these natives rushed over by themselves and wanted to settle in the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Dong Zhuo only provided them with some food, and they voluntarily invested in the construction project.

At this time, the merchants of the Han Dynasty also seemed to see the huge benefits, and the foreign trade began to develop rapidly, to say foreign trade, the most developed area, of course, is the Western Regions, the Western Regions as a bridge between the east and the west at this time, but also an important traffic point for the circulation of materials, the silk, pottery, bronze, evil gold, etc., of the Han Dynasty, were transported here by these merchants.

In exchange for many Western specialties that are not available in the Han Dynasty, and then return to the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Not only the merchants of the Han Dynasty, but also many blonde and blue-eyed Western businessmen also felt that within the territory of the Han Dynasty, the merchants here, their trading bases, gradually transferred from the Western Regions to Liangzhou, Guzang County in the war, for the first time there have been earth-shaking changes, after becoming a must for businessmen, the development here is extremely rapid.

Coupled with the various policies proposed by Jia Xu, the commercial tax alone made Liangzhou's taxes quickly catch up with Jizhou, Qingzhou, etc., which shocked the Son of Heaven, but, for some reason, Jia Xu never forbade the trading of those handmade products of the Han Dynasty, but never allowed the leakage of iron-making, farming and other technologies, and there were always businessmen who took risks for this huge profit.

But their fate is always very tragic, Jia Xu is different from Zheng Xuan, he acts, there is no bottom line at all, he will be some businessmen who violated the Han law, all over the house, hanging the head on the city of Guzang County, for a time, the head of the whole city, among them, there are many children, women, the elderly, Zheng Xuan is very angry with his behavior.

However, he still hung these people on their heads for three days, which made the merchants frightened, and they no longer dared to act as casually as usual, because over the years, the number of tribute exchanges from small countries outside the territory has been increasing, and the affairs of Dahonglu Cao Song have gradually become busy, and the Son of Heaven has repeatedly expanded his power, and he has recruited many subordinates, which has barely maintained the normal operation of Dahonglu.

Liangzhou's huge profits, so that the eyes of the people are straight, he proposed to the Son of Heaven, to reduce commercial taxes, to create more commercial taxes, he thinks, only to encourage the development of commerce, in order to make the country's finances better, but, this time, the Son of Heaven is a clear refusal of his request, before it was a folk handicraft, engaged in this area of most of the good people.

For these people, the Son of Heaven was able to mercifully lower taxes.

However, for these businessmen, the Son of Heaven really has no good impression, he will not shake the national policy of the Han Dynasty, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, it is the unchangeable national policy of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, this can never be changed, no matter how much wealth can be created, it is a non-negotiable matter.

In Yangzhou, Wang Fu, after discussing with Wen Ren, but privately made changes to Yangzhou, he built water conservancy on a large scale, increased cultivated land, increased grain production at the same time, vigorously developed Yangzhou's shipbuilding industry, sent a fleet, to the surrounding search, and, repeatedly reduced the tax on commerce and handicrafts, he actually encouraged merchants to trade with foreign countries.

Merchants went south, some also exchanged a lot of good things, when they saw the merchants brought back a few zhang high, with a long nose, like a monster out of the mountains and seas, he made people, the monster was dedicated to the Son of Heaven, this kind of monster, as early as Emperor Xiaowu when he conquered the south, was discovered, called the elephant, but after that, everyone obviously did not see again.

Such a huge monster, when it was transported to Luoyang, caused a great sensation, of course, the people along the way were also shocked to look at the giant beast, some even followed for a long time, when the monster was transported to Luoyang, the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials personally went to the city, to watch, the Son of Heaven walked out of the palace, along the way the people knelt and worshipped, the Son of Heaven was high, showing the majesty of the royal family.

He was accompanied by the queen Song, the emperor's eldest son Liu Wei, the queen mother was unwell, and did not go out of the palace together, when they walked to the city, after seeing these huge strange things, the Son of Heaven secretly said to himself, he did not expect that there were such high livestock in the world, he secretly thought to himself, if this thing is vigorously domesticated, let them replace the cattle in the future, will farming become easier?

He Xiu was on the side, also frowning, looking carefully, and thinking in his heart, like the Son of Heaven, thinking about this livestock is so huge, if it is vigorously tamed, will this meat make many people afford to eat meat? Thinking of this, He Xiu also personally went down to the city, walked to the giant beast, reached out to caress it, pinched the piece of meat, but secretly shook his head, it seemed that it was inedible!

The elephant was stared at strangely by He Xiu, for some reason, he was a little nervous, and the thin and swarthy barbarian on the side grinned and spoke not very neat Chinese, he said: "This is our divine beast, and its power is infinite."

Looking at this barbarian, He Xiu secretly thought to himself, this guy really looks like Cao Cao, and he asked with a solemn expression: "This thing, it may be edible?" ”

The barbarian was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted, looking at the old man, he was also a little frightened, looked at the elephant beside him, and said with a slight tremble: "Back to the leader, we haven't eaten this either, it should be inedible."

"And what does it eat?"

"It Eats Fruit"

He Xiu nodded, looked at the elephant for a while, then looked at the barbarian, did not speak, turned around and left, if it had no effect on the big man, but could be used as an ornamental object, he was not very interested, but he did not expect that his questioning left a big shadow in the barbarian's heart, after the barbarian returned to his hometown.

Everyone asked him, what did the Emperor of the Han Dynasty look like?

The barbarian trembled and said: "The emperor of the Han Dynasty, his belly is like a mountain, he looks extremely strong, it is said that his cook, every day he will slaughter three cows for him, I brought an elephant over, his cook even came to ask me, this elephant, can you eat"

Since then, in the south of the Han Dynasty, a kind of big-bellied and strong statue of the god has appeared inexplicably, and has been worshiped by many people, and at the foot of this statue, there is a kneeling elephant, and beside him, there is a big man holding a kitchen, and the image is different from He Xiu!!

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