(a)

It has been several years since the great victory of Wuling. The peace situation in the entire North-East Asian region is becoming more and more stable. The surrounding area has effectively ceased to have the military power to challenge Liu Shen's new dynasty.

Under the long-term peaceful situation, the various ethnic groups in the entire East Asian region and the Western Regions came and went to trade, migrated to each other, mixed and lived, and intermarried with each other, and there was a great fusion of cultures and races. Many nationalities have long been you have me, I have you, the boundaries of the nationality have long been blurred, many young people, have been mixed for several generations, the face characteristics are mixed, can not tell which nationality they are, from the appearance can not distinguish, everyone thinks that they are the citizens of the new dynasty, there is no habit of dividing what clan and what tribe.

Because Liu Shen's new dynasty name contains the character "Han", most of the people call themselves Han Chinese, and distant foreigners also use "Han people" to refer to the people of Liu Shen's new dynasty, and "Da Han" or "Dahou Han (different from the Han Dynasty of the Qin and Han dynasties)" to refer to the new dynasty established by Liu Shen.

With the consolidation of the Taiping, Liu Shen's new dynasty began to establish a universal social welfare system on a large scale. The New Dynasty established a large number of official free clinics and medicine numbers, with doctors and medicinal herbs provided by the state, and universal medical care for nationals and foreigners living in Han China free of charge. At that time, there were more than 1,200 free clinics and tens of thousands of free medicine numbers in Yunjing alone, covering all Fangshi communities. These clinics, doctors, and drug numbers are managed by the "Pharmaceutical Affairs Bureau" set up by the central government, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

In addition, the new dynasty also began to provide extensive social assistance, appointing officials in various localities, establishing official nursing homes and workhouses, sheltering the elderly, the sick, the disabled, and beggars who had been displaced by illness, disability, or loneliness, and providing them with free temporary food and lodging, free winter clothing in winter, shelter from the cold, and summer soup and tea and cool overnight shelters.

The new dynasty also widely allowed all affluent strata of society to set up non-governmental charities, and many big businessmen set up relief chambers of commerce to jointly run social welfare, benefiting the local old, weak, sick and disabled, women and children. For outstanding people of civil charity, the imperial court gives special favors, and they can be elevated and awarded honorary nobles.

After a period of hard work, the people of all nationalities in the new dynasty truly achieved that the old and the poor have something to rely on, and the social style of doing good was greatly prosperous.

Many small countries and tribes in the surrounding areas deeply admired the social welfare system of the new dynasty and sent officials to experience and learn. And the new dynasty also helped them. Liu Shen not only provided support in terms of experience and model to small countries and small tribes who are interested in benefiting their citizens extensively, but also gave them generous gifts to help them improve the lives of local people. As a result, Liu Shen's reputation as a benevolent monarch has spread far and wide, and he has become a generation of benevolent saints admired by the four seas, and many small countries and small tribes have taken the initiative to call Liu Shen "father" and thank Liu Shen for his fatherly care and help.

(b)

However, there are two sides to everything.

With the prosperity and good reputation of social welfare, some ministers proposed that now that the four seas are stable, and the emperor is the virtuous and holy co-lord loved by all the people and all ethnic groups in the world, it is unlikely that there will be large-scale wars in tens or hundreds of years. Under these circumstances, it is a great waste for the state to spend huge sums of money every day to support a huge army that has no practical use. The above-mentioned people implored Liu Shen to carefully consider whether to gradually reduce and reduce the national army, and only retain the elite in the army. In this way, not only can the country have more abundant financial resources to improve the people's livelihood, but also can liberate a large number of young and middle-aged labor force to invest in agricultural production, manufacturing, circulation, and trade, so as to make the national strength stronger.

Liu Shen accepted the suggestion of the cabinet minister, and sent the article to the central government and local officials to read it, and allowed everyone to make various secondials around the content of the recital. For a while, this disarmament recital became the focus of public opinion in the imperial court.

On the question of whether or not to disarm, to what scale, and when to begin, the civil and military generals of the whole country expressed their views and explained the pros and cons to Liu Shen and the cabinet from their own angles.

In the lively court discussion, the main opinions were divided into two factions: one faction was dominated by the generals of the Han army and relevant departments of interests, and insisted that the Han army could not be dismantled, believing that although the Han army had no actual combat function, the strong existence of the Han army was the cornerstone of national stability and a necessary national deterrent, and the waste in this regard was not only necessary, but also important, and the emperor should never destroy the Great Wall by himself and bury the cause of the distant disaster. This faction of courtiers bitterly recounted the hardships of the late general from entering the city with his bare hands to the hardships of starting from 500 soldiers and horses to create this world-famous and powerful army, and hoped that the emperor would not forget the fundamentals of army building, not be confused by the rhetoric of pragmatism, and must firmly maintain the size and strength of the national army, which is the foundation of the prosperity and peace of the world.

The other faction is dominated by central and local finances and various civil servants, as well as some sober-minded Han army generals. They believe that the prosperity of a dynasty often has to rely on strong military strength at the beginning of the establishment of the dynasty, and then after the world is pacified, how long the dynasty can last, often depends on whether the politics of the dynasty are supported by the people, which is the foundation of the country, the richer the country's financial resources, the more the people can live comfortably, the people live comfortably, and naturally they are loyal to the court. The will of the people is the most fundamental policy of peace, and who can match the regime that all the people in the world love and admire. The sages have said since ancient times that the benevolent are invincible, and they have never said that the strong are invincible. The Zhou Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty did not have a particularly strong and powerful national army, but it was still the strongest and most stable country at that time, and it was the center of the world's admiration. Moreover, the current disarmament is not aimed at uprooting the national armed forces, but only to appropriately control the scale, which is also conducive to the concentration of financial resources and the enhancement of the combat strength of the elite part of the armed forces, which is not harmful to the development of the armed forces.

The views of the two sides clashed repeatedly in the newspaper and the court discussion, and each had a wonderful discussion.

In this atmosphere of heated discussions, disarmament has become the number one hot topic in the DPRK's administration.

Many courtiers also saw that since Liu Shen and the cabinet agreed to send the report to the palace and let many officials participate in the review, the emperor's intentions should be speculative, and Liu Shen also believed that disarmament was necessary for the development of the current situation. It's just that he needs to listen more to the pros and cons, and needs the firm support of more consistent public opinion.

As a result, there was a part of the centrist indifferent courtiers, pandering to the Sacred Heart, and standing in favor of disarmament.

As the discussion deepened, the voices in favor of disarmament grew louder and louder, and finally the voices of the opposition were clearly overwhelmed by the voice. Disarmament has increasingly become the consensus of the government and the opposition. The focus of heated discussion has also shifted from whether or not to disarm to the scale of disarmament, the specific plans and steps for disarmament, and so on.

In this great discussion, there was one person who spoke very little, but he was worried, and as the discussion deepened and the wind changed, his silence became more and more striking, and his face became more and more gloomy.

This person is Yang Biao, the supreme military commander of the Han army.

In Yang Biao's silence and darkness, his dissatisfaction and disgust with Liu Shen became more and more distinct.

He was deeply dissatisfied with Liu Shen's indulgence of this discussion, believing that Liu Shen finally had to follow the various historical stories of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, and staged the traditional drama of rabbits and dogs cooking to the Han army.

And he, as the country's highest military commander who has been beaten by Liu Shen euphemistically, is probably like Han Xin, and his bad luck is at the head.

Yang Biao believes that Liu Shen has been thinking about this for a long time. His present behavior cannot be persuaded by words and arguments. Liu Shen's mind has changed, and no one can change the Sacred Heart's aspirations. Even if it can be persuaded for a while, in a few years, Liu Shen's idea will germinate again and take action again. As the years of peace go by, the ungrateful people are snobbish and short-sighted, and the voices in favor of disarmament will become louder and louder.

Therefore, there is only one way to solve the problem completely, to replace the country with a new emperor who needs to rely more on the strength of the army to subdue all parties. This new emperor cannot be recognized by the current government and the opposition, and is highly similar to Liu Shen's political views and governance style, and is in the same vein as the crown prince.

This emperor must be someone else.

And this other person must be accepted unhindered by the vast majority of the generals of the army.

Therefore, this person can only be the only daughter of General Chen Shizhao, the founder of the New Han Army, the cherished sister of the late general, the goddess in the eyes of the New Han Army, and another son born to Empress Chen Qin'er, the donor of the first huge military expenditure, a younger and softer son. (To be continued.) )