It doesn't matter how much, Liu Hong still shifted everyone's attention from the issue of the autonomous region to the Western Regions. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Hanzhong and the autonomous region are his followers, and he doesn't want anything to happen until the plan is fully implemented. However, the concept of the autonomous region must not be able to continue to exist, so the concept was changed and changed to the special zone of the Vietnamese people. It means that the Yue people have not been convinced by the king for too long, so they are treated specially.

Li Yu is very knowledgeable and does not dwell too much on military power, which makes him very satisfied.

Li Tong, Zhang He, and Gao Ran, including Zhao Feng and Xu Shu earlier, have entered the army one after another. The contact with the senior generals has also begun, and it is said that he has already established a relationship with Zu Mao, Huang Gai and Guan Yu, even if he can't poach and make Li Yu suspicious of these three people, then he can achieve the effect of differentiation.

It is impossible to ensure that an army is absolutely loyal to the Han Dynasty, but as an emperor, Liu Hong knows how to make himself truly influence this army by balancing all parties, or dividing and co-opting. There may be no way to control the part of the family, but he is still confident in an army that has been established for four or five years, and most of the generals are from poor families.

Fortunately, he is not Li Yu, and there is no help from the system. The latter can completely see who is loyal and who is traitorous through the system, even if Liu Hong does everything possible to divide and divide some people, as long as the system still shows that the other party is above the status of followers, then he doesn't need to worry about anything at all. The point is, he's ready to get the commissar out!

The Silk Road, the Western Han Dynasty brought a lot of taxes to the imperial court, and there were even a lot of specialties from the Hu people, and it is said that there were a lot of beautiful and moving orchids.

Of course, at this stage, everyone is not in a hurry to open up the Western Regions. In the end, it will take at least three or four years for high-yield crops to be planted in the Central Plains this year, and it will be possible to spread them nationwide.

But when food prices plummet and economic problems arise, it is a little too late.

The old family can survive until now, which one is not a far-sighted old fox? Unless they can forcefully stop the high-yielding crops and destroy them completely, they must understand that the decline in food is an inevitable trend.

Let them run other industries, obviously everyone has not done it before, and the tuition fees that need to be paid to study from scratch are not low. There are more than 30 restaurants on one street, and more than 20 have been closed in a few months, and a few are still surviving.

This investment is wasted, but many families are at a loss as to which industry to invest in next.

The situation of the Li family and the Hongnong Yang family in Longxi, who had communicated with Li Yu, was better, and a large part of the farmland was converted into cotton fields and peanut fields, and even the Li family in Longxi contracted a large amount of pasture in Mobei to grow pasture grass to feed horses and livestock.

Later, even Dong Zhuo got involved and contacted many Qiang tribes to raise horses and grow pasture. At the same time, a batch of cattle and sheep were sold to the Guanzhong and Kanto regions, and the profits obtained far exceeded that of farming.

The difference is that the fields only need to be distributed to the tenant farmers, and the harvest can be enjoyed in the autumn. In the past, grain was not sold at all, and as long as grain was produced, there was no worry that it could not be sold. But cattle and sheep are different, most of the people who can buy this thing are medium-sized families, at least at the level of rich peasants, how to sell, how not to lose money, how to maximize the profit need to be considered.

To put it simply, there are too many accidents, and it is far from being convenient to sit and collect money. It's just that the next season of high-yield crops will mature one after another, and when the time comes, I am afraid that Jizhou and even Youzhou will be planted one after another, and there is not much time left for them!

In the Western Regions, it may be a good way to sell goods to the Western Regions. The Western Regions seem to be very fanatical about silk. When Liu Hong proposed to open up the Western Regions, many families were already thinking about whether they should have more mulberry trees and raise silkworms for silk.

Maybe you can even buy all the surplus grain from them, so that the price of food will go up.

The idea is indeed very good, but the reality is very backbone. Since the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the passage to the Western Regions has been largely closed. Not only did a large number of Qiang and Wusun cavalry haunt there, but even Xianbei cavalry appeared.

Coupled with the desolation and drought in the Western Regions, and the fact that they can't grow any crops themselves, the old families hardly put their energy on it. If you lose the wasteland, they will lose the wasteland, even if they lose the Western Regions, they think that there is nothing wrong with themselves. Not to mention anything else, when Beigong Boyu rebelled earlier, some people even advocated giving up Xiliang.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the Han soldiers are strong and strong, there are tens of thousands of people with armor, and it is not a problem to reopen the Western Regions." Liu Hong saw that everyone's interest had been diverted, so he said slowly, "But there is still a lack of a commander in charge of the army, but I don't know who you Aiqing will choose?" ”

Immediately, everyone shut up, not to mention the wild land of the Western Regions, how troublesome it is to reopen the Silk Road, and there are many Hu rangers on the road, always disturbing this route. Let's just say that this supply line is also good, but it also faces the possibility of being looted by the Hu people, and it is too risky to enter the Western Regions this time.

"Your Majesty, the terrain of the Western Regions is barbaric, there is no water and grass for thousands of miles, not to mention military rations, I am afraid that a batch of water needs to be transported. The Western Regions is even more windy and sandy, the roads are difficult to travel, and the consumption of horses is too great. There are also Hu people riding and cruising, the risk is too great! Lao Chen thinks that it is better not to open the Western Regions again! Yang Ci reported to the front.

"The road is not a problem! Before the Beigong Boyu rebellion, there were many refugees in Xiliang, and even many refugees who fled to Sili in Bashu through Hanzhong. I plan to mobilize them to build a road from Sili to the Western Regions, and even to the Great Wan Kingdom and the Great Qin Kingdom, and to provide relief through work.

The SAR has already indicated that it is willing to provide cement production technology, and a lot of manpower will be needed for quarrying and road construction. Of course, if you have a quarry on hand, the court can also purchase it from you.

In the early stage, it is not too far, only need to take back Yihe Duweicheng (later Hami City), use it as a front-line supply point, and plant a large number of drought-tolerant crops such as potatoes, so that the military food problem should be alleviated in a few years.

The army also needs to adapt to the environment there, and it will take three or four years to be conservative. During this time, it should not be a problem to build the road to the country of the old Cheshi (near the city of Urumqi)!

There is also good news, that is, in the west of Linqiang County, Jincheng County, there is a huge salt lake, which contains countless amounts of salt, and if it can be boiled, then it can completely supply the needs of Guanzhong and Bashu.

I am also very talkative, in the end, the salt lake is located in the Qiang tribe, and I have to face the attacks of the Qiang people at all times. The imperial court did not have any extra soldiers to guard and protect the workers who boiled salt, so it was decided to decentralize the salt lake.

If you are interested, you can form a private army of no more than 500 people to go to the local area, boil the salt, and divide it into 20%, how to distribute it is up to you, but the total number is only 20%, this will not change! Liu Hong slowly said the plan.

Qinghai was called the West Sea in this era, and many people thought that it was a sea area like the Pacific Ocean in the east, but they didn't know that it was just a huge salt lake. But Li Yu knew, and then told Liu Hong. After all, in his opinion, this thing is too far away from his own rule and can't make any profit, but if he takes it out, there are many people who can benefit.

The main beneficiary, of course, is the people of Guanzhong and Bashu. They live deep inland, so they rarely have access to sea salt, and many times they boil well salt to eat, and a few mine salt to replenish the salt.

Mineral salt aside, the composition of well salt is too complicated, but the boiling process is not up to par, so it is easy to be poisoned. But if you don't eat salt, the people of Guanzhong and Bashu will have all kinds of problems. In the end, it is the people of China, why should you get along with them?

Liu Hong also knew this, so he decided to develop Qinghai Salt Lake. However, he didn't say it at first, but now he took it out at this time, just enough to attract the attention of the courtiers.

In the past, salt was monopolized, and there was almost no share of them. Fortunately, they made a lot of money by smuggling salt. However, the cost of buying from the east to the west is still too high.

With a 20% share, plus extra income such as private salt, you don't have to think about it to know how cost-effective this deal is. Those families who couldn't find a way immediately turned red. What special zone, what Hanzhong, it's not that you forget, but you don't care anymore.

The courtiers became very enthusiastic and begged to let their families share the worries of the country, and the court became like a vegetable market.

"Of course, the focus now is on the Western Regions! Or is it the topic discussed earlier, who will be the commander-in-chief? Liu Hong was not in a hurry and brought the topic back to the Western Regions.

Now everyone doesn't say anything, although the extent of the expedition is not large, but there are also dangers. If you fail, you will definitely need to be held accountable, and who wants their children and nephews to go to such a desolate place to defend the border? It's not the same, it's no different from the distribution?!

"Chen Cao Cao is willing to go!" But I didn't want a voice to come out, and a slightly short courtier came out to play.

He was Cao Cao, the prime minister of Jinan, who had been ordered to break the Taishan thieves earlier, and came to Luoyang with the spoils of war and good news. Unexpectedly, Liu Hong just proposed to reopen the Western Regions, and immediately excitedly stepped forward to ask for help.

"Cao Aiqing has just won a battle, and the soldiers are afraid that they are exhausted, how can they let Aiqing continue to work?" Liu Hong asked pretendedly.

"Serve my big man, and Weichen will never give up!" Cao Cao replied with righteousness and awe.

"Okay, worthy of being my loyal minister! In this way, Aiqing was appointed as the protector of the Western Regions, and he was in charge of the military and political affairs of the Western Regions! If the Western Regions are reopened in the future, Feng Aiqing will be the general of the Han Dynasty! Liu Hong solemnly promised.

"Whoa!" Cao Cao is indeed very excited, he is still young and hot-blooded, and his biggest dream is to become the general of the Han Dynasty. Even if it is buried in the yellow sand, there is no regret.

"Zhun Aiqing selected 30,000 elite soldiers, and the imperial court was responsible for supplying armor weapons. I can even allocate 500 pairs of rhubarb crossbows to Aiqing to help Aiqing pacify the thieves in the Western Regions! Liu Hong waved his pen and gave Cao Cao a lot of rewards.

"Wechen thank Your Majesty for your grace!" Cao Cao bowed his hand. (To be continued.) )