In order to maintain the prosperity of the family, these noble families often did anything to do anything. When he was in Xiangyang, Cai Mao sent the young Cai Jue to the state pastor's mansion. Now that Zhen Mi has followed him to Chang'an and entered the palace, will it also be a method that the Zhen family has come up with for the benefit of the family? Liu Xin couldn't help frowning.

But he saw Zhen Mi's little hand stretched out and said, "Your Majesty, you promised me to bring the book." ”

Liu Xin realized that he was thinking too much, so he couldn't help but smile and said, "Don't worry, I will never break my promise this time, you can go and fight Zhao Ji tomorrow." ”

"Akihime?" Zhen Mi frowned and asked, "Who is Zhao Ji?" ”

Liu Xin said with a smile: "Zhao Ji is Cai Guifei, these books are under her control, if you want to read books in the future, just look for her directly." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Gou'er had already taken a white jade token and handed it over very reluctantly, you know, even if he is the head of the inner government, he only uses a silver token, and such a little girl can have a white jade token casually. Zhang Gou'er didn't dare to disobey Liu Xin's order, but he poured his anger on the two palace maids who stayed behind to take care of Zhen Mi, woke them up and scolded them fiercely, and deducted the monthly money for the month.

Liu Xin didn't mind Zhang Gou'er playing the prestige of his inner house, these eunuchs were physically disabled, and their psychology would inevitably be affected, and there was nothing wrong with letting them vent once in a while, but it had to be within a controllable range.

However, after this night's coincidence, Zhen Mi can enter and leave the palace justifiably, and no longer have to worry about the guards' investigation. And Cai Yan's collection of books in this small courtyard almost contains all the books that the entire Han can collect, which is enough for her to read for three years and five years. But until the Spring Festival came, when Zhen Mi should return to Yecheng, he did not meet Liu Xin in the palace again.

Although the Han Dynasty achieved unification, the northern territory had become devastated due to war. As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xin had to make himself a bit of a Ming Jun at this time, so he either dealt with the music in the main hall most of the time, or went to the Chang'an Street Market to observe the people's feelings, and only returned to the harem at night.

Liu Xin's delegation of most power to the cabinet and the six ministries does not mean that he can be a hands-off shopkeeper himself. A copy of every order issued by the cabinet and the six ministries would be sent to Liu Xin, and if it involved some sensitive issues, even if it was within their purview, they would first ask Liu Xin's opinion.

Liu Xin will carefully review every piece of music submitted by the cabinet, and in Liu Xin's words, it is precisely because the power has been delegated to them that supervision should be strengthened, so that the ministers can always maintain a mood of walking on thin ice.

In addition to personnel appointments and dismissals, most of the content of these cantata is about the northern states. They continued the cash-for-work strategy that Liu Xin had practiced when he arrived in Jingzhou at the beginning of that year, and organized a large number of people to dig ditches and build roads. Not only can young and middle-aged people earn money to support their families through these projects, but even women and children can do what they can for a long time, and the people will have no problem surviving this winter.

But after the beginning of spring next year, the people will return to their homes, and there can be no mistake in the farming time. However, the work could not be stopped, especially since the roads had to be repaired in place, so the entire engineering corps was moved to the north.

However, even if there is more power delegated, there is one power, Liu Xin will firmly grasp it, that is, military power. It is an eternal truth that power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and Liu Xin will not hand over the army to other people.

Although the territory of the Han Dynasty is now wider than ever, Liu Xin still maintains the army to a limited size, the main army is still the first to sixth legions with a total of 550,000 people, and the structure of the seventh army and the Western Regions army is also unchanged, the only change is that the cavalry in the third, fourth, and fifth legions has increased to 20,000 each.

In this era, cavalry was the most powerful branch of the army. After controlling the entire Mobei grassland, the Han army actually no longer had to worry about the supply of horses. However, the storage of a large number of war horses is very demanding on the country's financial resources. Now is the time to recuperate, so Liu Xin still only retains a pure cavalry corps.

Although the total size of the army has not increased, in the battle to unify the Han launched this autumn, the major legions have suffered heavy casualties, and some legions have even suffered more than half of the casualties, and they urgently need to replenish a large number of soldiers. As a result, while building water conservancy and roads in the northern states, a vigorous conscription campaign was also launched. The reason why the focus of military recruitment was on the northern states was actually to solve the livelihood problems of the local people and reduce the burden of disaster relief for the imperial court.

The salary of the Han army was the highest in history, and an ordinary soldier could basically feed a family of four. If more than 100,000 recruits are recruited at once, hundreds of thousands of people can be fed.

Even with these measures, there were still many people in the northern states who needed to rely on the relief of the imperial court, which brought a heavy burden of money and food to the imperial court. But Liu Xin has already given a death order, no matter how difficult it is, he must ensure that no one freezes to death and no one starves to death. Therefore, the county and county governments have carried out a thorough registration, and the imperial court has also allocated a large number of disaster relief materials, and the north has gradually regained some vitality.

On the first day of the new year, Liu Xin officially announced the change of yuan to ZTE. In April of the same year, Liu Xin hosted a banquet in Chang'an for the kings of the Western Regions and the envoys of the five countries of Dawan, Wusun, Kangju, Guishan, and Shenfu, on the one hand, to let the kings of the Western Regions see the prosperity of the Han Dynasty and make them more determined to become a member of the Han Dynasty, and on the other hand, to reaffirm the peaceful foreign policy of the Han Dynasty and dispel the concerns of Dawan and other countries.

In fact, Liu Xin was already secretly planning in his heart that at the right time in the future, Dawan and Wusun would also be brought under the rule of the Western Regions Protectorate and restore the grandeur of the Han Dynasty. However, it is still necessary to stabilize them first to ensure the smooth flow of trade routes in the Western Regions.

After more than two years of cultivation, the tea production in the south of the Yangtze River has reached a new height, and tea tasting and drinking tea has become the fashion of the upper class of the Han Dynasty. Some of the coarser tea leaves, as well as the leftovers from the frying process, are pressed into tea bricks, some of which are shipped to the grasslands, and some of which are sold to the West.

Although Liu Xin, in order to avoid attracting the attention of the powerful Great Qin Empire, limited the caravan of the Great Han to the territory of Kangju as far as possible, but did not prevent the merchants of the Great Qin from coming to the east. Moreover, through the caravans of other countries, some of the special products of the Han Dynasty, such as silk, porcelain and tea, gradually entered Rome, the capital of the Great Qin Empire, and became the favorite luxury goods of the Great Qin aristocracy.

These goods are sold in the West at almost three times the price in Dahan and are still in high demand. Many Great Qin nobles tried their best to collect these goods through various channels, but it was still difficult to meet their needs, and they could only keep raising the price. Especially tea, in Rome is sold at sky-high prices, even the most ordinary tea bricks, are equivalent to gold, what is the price of high-grade tea needless to say.

However, the nobles of the Great Qin Empire seem to be addicted to tea, no matter how much it is, as long as there is goods. Merchants pursued profits, and driven by huge profits, many caravans of the Han Dynasty also began to secretly sell tea to Daqin. Of course, although crossing the Green Ridge is equivalent to leaving the border of the Great Han Dynasty, no caravan has dared to blatantly do business in the Great Qin. Most of them resorted to workarounds, such as cooperating with caravans from countries such as Kangju, Kushan, and Dawan. The caravans of the Han Dynasty transported the tea to these countries, and then the caravans of these countries justifiably sold it to Daqin, and finally the profits were divided equally.

Liu Xin has arranged a lot of eyeliner in these places, and in fact, she already knows their small movements. However, Liu Xin did not stop them. The Han Dynasty was very short of gold and silver, so copper coins were used as the main currency in circulation. The disadvantage of copper coins is that they are of low value and are very inconvenient to carry. When Liu Xin went to Hejian from Juchao to take office, he carried dozens of boxes of copper coins.

Although the silver notes issued by Dahan Bank solve the problem of using a large number of copper coins in transactions, there is a fatal weakness, that is, a large amount of gold and silver must be stored in the bank for customers to exchange freely, otherwise if the exchange is not timely, it is easy to cause a run on the bank.

On the other hand, the Great Qin Empire was mostly gold, silver and jewelry. While these Han caravans secretly sold their tea, they also exchanged a large amount of real money and silver. Due to the convenience of trade brought by Dahan Qianzhuang and its high reputation, not only Dahan caravans, but also many foreign caravans liked to deposit their money in Dahan Qianzhuang. In this way, the gold and silver reserves of the Dahan Qian Village are increasing, and the silver tickets are becoming safer and safer, and Liu Xin is reluctant to attack these Han caravans that exploit loopholes.

At this time, the Great Qin Empire, far away in the west, had a change.

For so many years, the power of the Great Qin Empire has been in the hands of the House of Elders, but this Great Qin Emperor Putimius is bent on taking power into his own hands. After six years of hard work, he continued to cultivate cronies, control military power, and finally became a veritable monarch with supreme power.

As in the case of the Great Han, Putimius's power was seized through numerous wars, and in the process, he also built up a powerful army, and the entire Great Qin aristocracy was already looking at him. In the same way, Daqin also needed a lot of money for post-war reconstruction.

At this time, Ptimius suddenly discovered that a lot of gold and silver had been used by the nobles to buy tea. Although Putimius himself was very fond of tea, even the lowest tea bricks, he did not refuse to come. However, the massive loss of gold and silver had seriously threatened his rule, and he had to issue a ban on tea.

Although the ban on tea was promulgated, it was not possible to change the tea drinking habits of the nobles, and these nobles were also the basis of Putimius's power, and he did not have the courage to push all the nobles against him. So Putimius swung his butcher's knife at the caravans that were trafficking in tea.