Chapter 44: Reclamation II

"In order to reward the meritorious ministers, the sons of the martyrs in the Guanzhong Army were selected to be collected in Shanglin Yuan. Cultivate talents, supplement Yu Lin Wei, and the top 100 Northland knights elect to be merged into Yu Lin Wei as a reward. The prime minister, Hexi, Hetao, and Liaodong are very important, and the officials are corrupt, and the armament is wasted, but the enemy is currently having a horse to release Nanshan. The border counties know the Han law as if there is nothing, and the reform of the examination discussed by the prime minister before is imminent. However, August is coming to an end, and these important matters must be discussed by the ministers, and the ministers must be at the behalf, and they cannot be acted alone, and I am ready to put these major matters to the Shuowang court and the ministers in the early September to discuss together. ”

"Prime Minister, how do you think you should deal with the Wusun war": Liu Xun then asked

"In my humble opinion, the conditions of the Wusun envoy are just a flash in the pan. Once the siege of Wusun is lifted, Wusun will inevitably tear up the treaty signed today. The Xiongnu are weakening day by day, but the tribes in Hexi are gradually prospering under the protection of my Han family. Yidi can be used but not credible, today's Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Yueshi are lessons from the past. The Qin people have no time to mourn themselves, and future generations mourn them; Later generations mourn and do not learn from it, and it also makes future generations mourn for future generations.

In order to save the face of the Han family, the minister thought that when the army of many roads drove the Xiongnu, Wusun provided grain and grass to carry the burden. The drive of the Xiongnu is supplemented by sorting out the rebellious tribes. And the rewards of the various armies are also obtained from the wealth accumulated by various tribes for decades, without harming the national treasury, and the rewarded armies can also be converted into land slaves, which also solves the problem of sparse population in the frontiers": Huo Guang said

In terms of Lao Cheng's country, Huo Guang should be the leader, together with the desperate plan at the banquet. He demonstrated to Liu Xun what a qualified imperial decision-maker is, with nothing but interests in his eyes. And every step is stuck in the enemy's key places, making people unable to move. It's like a fox in a rope, even if it breaks its tail to survive, it can't escape death. In this kind of emotionless calculation, Liu Xun learned an extremely important lesson, which also made Liu Xun deeply jealous in admiration.

The politics of the Han Dynasty can be described as "powerful politics". Although the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty were all working hard to change the political system from a feudal system to a centralized system, after all, the remnants of the feudal system for thousands of years are still there, and a considerable part of the land, wealth and even power are in the hands of those powerful people. Among these heroes, there are the remnants of the six countries, the martial nobles who fought the world with their ancestors, the military nobles who have been rewarded by the Son of Heaven in the past dynasties, the famous families who are entrenched in various places, and the descendants of the royal families who are divided into various places. In their own acres and threes of land, their own commands are sometimes more useful than the will of today.

In order to restrain these disobedient and sometimes even threatening their own thrones, the emperors of the Han Dynasty often supported new heroes to confront them, so that the powerful of different factions would fall against each other, consume their strength, and the imperial court could reap their benefits. And the most foundationless, the most obedient and loyal, and the most controllable new Haoqiang are none other than those relatives who were originally just idlers in the market. However, Liu Xun has not yet established himself, and his mother family has not held a position in the former imperial dynasty, and the only one he can rely on is Huo Guang.

It's a paradox, how ironic it is that one's worst enemy and biggest support is the same person. Liu Xun shook his head helplessly in his heart when he thought of this, he needed to establish his own team without making a sound. silently wooed Huo Guang's opposition, but these local powerful factions were never in Liu Xun's consideration.

History has told us countless times that no matter how impregnable a fortress is, it will eventually be destroyed in the cracks inside. Family and love, loyalty and betrayal, trust and suspicion, their fates are so intertwined that it seems like a gorgeous drama that has been carefully choreographed and deliberately controlled in the number of protagonists. In this drama, each character is involuntarily involved, and the fate of each character is ups and downs, so that you can never guess what the next scene will be.

But Liu Xun knew that in the late Western Han Dynasty, Haoqiang completely obtained the rights, and Wang Mang was one step closer to Huo Guang. Therefore, the elimination of local powerful factions is an urgent issue, but without Huo Guang's support, nothing can be implemented.

This time is an opportunity, as long as you sort out Hexi, Liaodong and other places. In time, small and medium-sized landlords who were loyal to the central government grew up, and the stability of society depended entirely on them. Whether it is the source of taxes or soldiers, these yeoman farmers are the pillars of the Han family.

Liu Xun thought about this and continued to speak: "Prime Minister, what you say about worrying about the country and the people goes straight to the point. This matter will be handed over to the prime minister, but the prime minister's heavy affairs cannot be separated from Chang'an, who will be responsible for the expedition to Liaodong in Hexi? ”

Che cavalry general Zhang Anshi, knows the soldiers and makes good use of them, knows the Han law, is familiar with local things, and can be the commander of this matter. Tian Guanghan, Fan Mingyou, Han Zeng, Chang Hui can be generals. Chang Hui led the Wusun soldiers of the headquarters and pretended to march west to force the Huns to leave. Tian Guanghan went to Liaodong to exterminate Xianbei, Fan Mingyou led the Liao generals to exterminate Wuhuan Yuyue, and Han Zeng led the army to be vigilant against the Xiongnu to take advantage of the fire to rob. The three-pronged approach was to completely solve the rebellion of the vassal tribes in one battle. And Zhang Anshi sat in Liangzhou to mediate and solve the slackness of the captain of the Wuwu school. The ministers, together with Jing Zhaoyin, cleaned up the counties in Guanzhong under the rule of Fufeng and sent them to Hexi, Liaodong and other places. But what kind of charter still needs His Majesty to think twice.