Chapter 229: A private visit to Weifu

Liu Yi is not too worried about the Xiliang War, after he went to capture Tianshui County in person, it is equivalent to opening up a situation for Ma Chao, so if Liu Yi still needs to worry about the follow-up war in Xiliang, then Ma Chao will be one of the five tiger generals in vain.

Liu Yi just hopes that Ma Chao can break through the martial arts as soon as possible and become a real super general, and he can become a general like Tai Shici and Zhao Yun who can stand alone for Liu Yi.

What Liu Yi wants to pay attention to now is the financial situation of the New Han Dynasty, and see if he can continue to support the New Han Army in successive battles.

The current New Han Army, counting, has about 400,000 elite soldiers on the Jizhou battlefield, plus the newly formed military horses later, it is estimated that it has exceeded 500,000 troops. In addition, if you add the defenders in some places and the people mobilized during the war, I am afraid that this will really exceed one million. When it is a battlefield, it is equivalent to having millions of people who cannot participate in production normally, and their consumption is all pure consumption. It needs to be borne by the court of the New Han Dynasty.

In addition, there are also wartime casualty compensation, as well as rewards for meritorious deeds, etc., these expenses really have to be counted, which is an astronomical amount.

If you add the Xiliang Battlefield, the just-concluded Jingzhou Battlefield, as well as the battlefield of Dongting Lake Xinzhou to the south, the Jiangdong Battlefield, etc., the military horses and military and civilian expenses in these places. Liu Yi is now feeling a little headache when he sees these numbers, no, it is heartache, if this money is only for Liu Yi to spend himself, I am afraid that he can use it to get his postmodern time. That is, when it was more than 2,000 years, at that time, Liu Yi was probably still the richest man in the world.

It's been more than a year. The finances of the New Han Dynasty seem to be starting to strain. It is estimated that from now on, you will be in debt.

For example, we owe grain to grain merchants, and we owe money to some workers who serve the military industry. There were also debts of cloth merchants and iron merchants.

However, one thing that made Liu Yi feel a little relieved was that now the New Han Dynasty seems to have a high degree of support for the imperial court. Or. This is also because the people of the New Han Dynasty want to repay Liu Yi for bringing them peace and prosperity.

All walks of life in the New Han Dynasty were very supportive of the New Han Dynasty's dispatch of troops to unify the Han Dynasty. They. A large amount of materials were donated to the government of the New Han Dynasty. Not only the materials, but also the common people, they all rushed to send their children to the official palace of the New Han Dynasty, hoping to let their children join the New Han Army. This one. Definitely a good thing. In this way, the source of soldiers of the New Han Army really doesn't have to worry about anymore.

Even if you fight a few tough battles, you don't have to worry about the lack of troops.

Of course, in fact, the current Xinhan Army, although it has been fighting again and again, but the damage ratio of the sergeants. It's really quite low, so low that people can't believe it. And because of that. The current New Han Army has never needed to expand its army in large quantities.

However, the government of the New Han Dynasty naturally would not refuse the kindness of the people, and will, according to the actual situation of the people's families, and under the condition of ensuring that the people will not affect their normal production affairs by sending their children, they can transfer their children from the families of many brothers and let them join the army. Of course, even if they join the army now, they are only reserve troops, and they are sent to various recruit camps for training.

The recruits who have completed their training do not have much opportunity to go to the battlefield, so they mainly go to the various places where the New Han Army has recovered with the officials and do a good job of maintaining local order.

Then, when the New Han Dynasty really wants to replenish its troops, it will select the best from among them and let them join the officially established New Han Army, so that they will have the opportunity to train and fight with the officially established New Han Army.

In this way, even if a certain Xinhan army loses a soldier, it can quickly recover its combat effectiveness and be able to cooperate well with friendly forces.

What Liu Yi was really worried about was that this war to unify the Han Dynasty would drag on for too long. Now more than a year has passed, and only Youzhou and Jingzhou have been captured, and although the battle situation in Liangzhou and Jizhou is in the hands of the New Han Army, it still needs time to recover.

And then what about Yizhou and Hanzhong? And what about Cao Cao's behemoth?

If the time drags on for too long, it will be a bit contrary to Liu Yi's original intention. In that way, it will affect the economic development of the entire New Han Dynasty.

If a war is fought, a fight is a few years, which lowers the overall economic level of the New Han Dynasty and affects the normal life of the Han people, then how can Liu Yi bring happiness and prosperity to the people?

If because of the war, the people of the New Han Dynasty are in dire straits, what is the difference between Liu Yi and ordinary princes?

Hehe, I don't know when Liu Yi's heart really wants to make some achievements, no longer like before, just thinking about his own survival.

Or, depending on the shape, people's minds will change. Just like Liu Bei, when he first started the army, he didn't necessarily want to really serve the court, and he didn't necessarily want to really revitalize the Han Dynasty. It's just that, with the change of shape, he slowly became more ambitious, and slowly, let ambition blind him, and then did something unexpected and became gloomy.

Liu Yi is now, but as the New Han Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, the more he wants to really do a big thing, do a big thing that has never been done before, and dare to look at the world.

Regarding the financial report, Liu Yi read it in detail, and only when the logistics work is perfect and guaranteed, can Liu Yi have the courage to wave his army to compete for the world.

After taking a closer look, although I know that it is inevitable that the court of the New Han Dynasty will be in debt, it should still allow the New Han Dynasty to continue to fight without worries. In this way, Liu Yi was relieved.

On the other hand, there is the issue of the supervision of local officials.

This, Liu Yi should also pay special attention to.

After all, the New Han Dynasty had introduced quite perfect policies to govern the Han Dynasty, and these policies, from top to bottom, needed to be implemented step by step. What Liu Yi was most worried about was that the government decree went down, but he couldn't send the complete decree to the locality, and the officials of the local government. However, the governance of the people is not thorough enough, and the governance is not based on the basic national law of the Han Dynasty, so that the local people still do not have real good governance. Let the people have resentment against the new Han Dynasty. In this case, it is not what Lewi wants to see.

For example, in later generations, if there are policies at the top, but they change from level to level, or the understanding of policy orders is different, it will cause harm to some people.

Leo Yi is not worried about anything, the most worried. It's a matter of corruption. There is no way to avoid such a thing, no matter in any time or place. Lewy now. But he didn't want the New Han Dynasty under his rule to have these problems prematurely. At least, when the New Han Army was fighting for life and death on the front line, it didn't want such a problem to arise within itself. Leo Yi watched the financial report. I just want to see if anything like this happens. If you find something wrong. Lewi will definitely let people investigate thoroughly.

For the officials of the New Han Dynasty, Liu Yi's minimum requirement was that they should be clean and self-sufficient, and strictly follow the orders of the New Han Dynasty court to implement policies.

Now, in the areas that have been well governed by the court of the New Han Dynasty, such as Luoyang, Guanzhou, Chang'an and other places, the government in these areas has done quite well. That's what Lewi was worried about. Now regain back the officials of those districts, they. He was not familiar with the policies of the New Han Dynasty, and Liu Yi was worried that some unscrupulous officials would appear during their tenure.

Liu Yi found Chen Qun and raised his concerns to him.

Chen Qun followed Jian Yiyi and set up a supervision department, in fact, Liu Yi felt a bit like the Jinyi Wei in the Ming Dynasty in later generations. This department, which is directly responsible to Liu Yi, will inspect all parts of the New Han Dynasty anytime and anywhere, and conduct routine assessments and investigations of the local government. If they are incompetent, or even abuse their power for personal gain, embezzlement and bribery, the people in the supervision department can directly prosecute those officials, and then listen to Hou Liuyi's fate.

However, Liu Yi believes that there is no need to do this for the time being, so as not to make the officials of the New Han Dynasty panic, and he is also a little worried that it will be overdone and affect the normal operation of the New Han Dynasty government.

Anyway, although Liu Yi felt that it was indeed necessary to set up such a department, but it was not now, if such a department was established now, it would make the people who followed him feel that they were being monitored, and in particular, it would make them feel that Liu Yi did not trust them enough. It's not a good thing to let your subordinates feel this way.

Liu Yi thought about it and proposed to Chen Qun to set up a discipline inspection department in the future, which was also made by Liu Yi based on the discipline inspection department of later generations. However, he told Chen Qun to formulate the powers of this department according to the substantive situation of the current New Han Dynasty.

Moreover, this is not directly responsible to Liu Yi, but to go through the guò cabinet and then report to Liu Yi.

For example, if a general under Liu Yi's account has a strict corruption problem, the discipline inspection department must grasp the actual situation. After confirmation from the cabinet department, it will be reported to Liu Yi and how the general will be handled.

In fact, Lewis has the final say.

Liu Yi knew that in the future, the New Han Dynasty must have such a department to supervise the officials of the New Han Dynasty. Otherwise, there are bound to be big problems.

After discussing with Chen Qun, Chen Qun also thought so, and according to Liu Yi's opinion, he began to study the discipline inspection law suitable for the current Han Dynasty.

For Liu Yi, it was indeed a blessing to be able to report to Chen Qun, a lawyer, it was rare that he was quite loyal to Liu Yi, and he was upright, and he had a very strong concept of the rule of law.

Seriously, if Liu Yi were to get it, it would be really difficult for Liu Yi to come up with so many laws that are suitable for the implementation of the New Han Dynasty now.

One problem after another was solved by Lew.

Liu Yi began to prepare for the dispatch of troops to Jizhou.

Now, the Empress Dowager He Wan has returned to the palace. The young emperor is already in the Xishan Imperial Mausoleum, and he doesn't plan to come back, and he doesn't even want to reappear, only after Liu Yi unifies the Han Dynasty, he will appear in the Xishan Imperial Mausoleum and give up the throne to Liu Yi. This has already been said. The civil and military officials of the New Han Dynasty also knew it.

In addition, there is another thing that I know very well, that is, the matter of Liu Yi and the Empress Dowager He Wan. He Wan is a matter of Liu Yi's woman, and it is no longer a secret. Therefore, now that He Wan is sitting in the court with the famous words of the queen mother, no one will have an opinion. In addition, there is the princess of ten thousand years, this. The women in Liu Yi's family, they have already discussed it. If Liu Yi really became the Ninth Five-Year Plan in the future, then. The princess of Wannian is the queen. The civil and military people of the New Han Dynasty seem to have received a little bit of news about this. Therefore, everyone can accept such a thing.

After all, the New Han Dynasty was also the Great Han Dynasty. And the Han Dynasty has always been held by the Liu family of the Han family.

And the princess of Wannian is the daughter of the first emperor Liu Hong. With her as the queen, it will be easier for people to accept. By the way, even Lewy. It will also be easier to accept. Because, no matter how the emperor of the Han Dynasty changes, it will be Liu Mu in the end. This, for those courtiers who are loyal to the Han in their hearts. Emotionally. It is indeed much easier to accept.

For example, if Cao Cao is proclaimed emperor, he will inevitably be opposed and accused by the people of the Han Dynasty, and he will definitely be regarded as a thief. This was the case with Yuan Shu before.

The people of Dahan have a relatively large sense of honor and pride in the high-glory period of Dahan, even if it has become a thing of the past, but. Every Han people, they will be proud of themselves as Han people. Even. More than 2,000 years later, the Chinese people are also proud of the Han people.

This honor is engraved into the bones of the Han people, and no one can erase it.

Now, Princess Wannian officially lives in the palace and learns from the Empress Dowager He Wan to govern the palace.

He Wan also knew that if Liu Yi really became the emperor in the future, she would no longer be suitable to be the queen mother, and when the time came, she would let go of a qiē and be the woman behind Liu Yi with peace of mind. Even, she planned that in the future, she would move to the palace in Chang'an with the widows of the first emperor to retire. Many women also have such plans, of course, there are also those who say that they want to go back to Dongting Lake Xinzhou, which is represented by Yin Xiao and other women.

Lewi was noncommittal about their plans. When the time comes, they will definitely not be able to do it. Liu Yike didn't want his women to go their separate ways when they got old. What's more, Liu Yi often comforts them, don't look at them as if they are in their forties, but they are still like young women in their twenties, and they don't look old at all. Their faces are still radiant, and their figures are getting better and better, at least, Liu Yi likes them more and more now.

I'm afraid they don't even know about themselves, because Liu Yi's Yuanyang Divine Skill can rejuvenate all things, so that their looks age very slowly, so slow that people can't notice it at all. They may just be worried in their own hearts. is worried that Liu Yi will be greedy for the new and tired of the old, worried that they will grow old and no longer match Liu Yi.

In fact, for any of them, especially the oldest women in the account that Liu Yi first collected. At that time, Liu Yi was only seventeen or eight years old, and they were already in their thirties. Now Lewis is twenty-seven or eight years old, and they are already in their forties. At the beginning, Liu Yi had already thought about such a problem, considering the problem of them getting old in the future. Therefore, Liu Yi has already been mentally prepared, no matter what they become in the future, Liu Yi will not give up on them, and still let them stay by his side and cherish them the same.

At most, Liu Yi will take out a solar-powered mobile phone when the time comes, so that they can often see what it was like to be with them when they were young. Well, Liu Yi has taken countless photos and videos of them now, but they don't know it. The video of individual stolen fear is still the video of Liu Yi and them when they are in love, although it was secretly filmed from a fixed angle, but Liu Yi deliberately rejoiced with them in front of the camera. It is an authentic selfie AV. If you are really old in the future, you can also take it out and appreciate it.

However, Liu Yi estimated that he might really grow old with them now. Solar mobile phones may not have the opportunity to take them out and enjoy them with the women.

In addition, it is the matter of Liu Yi's children.

Unknowingly, Liu Yi's eldest son is already seven or eight years old, and the enlightenment and cultivation of his children is about to begin.

Liu Yi locked it up alone, took out a solar mobile phone, copied out many plans for how to raise children in later generations, and then according to the current actual situation, he selected the most suitable method and gave it to Cai Yong.

Cai Yong is now aging fast, but he is in good spirits, and he is also in charge of the main work of the education department of the New Han Dynasty. However, Cai Yong and the others don't want their father to work too hard, and hope that Cai Yong can reduce some of the workload. Liu Yi also talked to this old father-in-law, now the New Han Dynasty has many talents, many things, and he does not need to do it himself, his first half of his life, he worked hard all his life, and now that he is old, he should also enjoy Qingfu. Liu Yi didn't want to talk about his father-in-law, he directly comforted Cai Yong for a long time in the name of his son, and he agreed to put down the burden on his shoulders and hand over the work to his subordinates.

In this way, Cai Yong, who is quite idle, Liu Yi feels that it is just right for him to enlighten and teach his children.

Liu Yi doesn't want his children to be the dragon and phoenix among people, but he hopes that his children can be upright. It is necessary to have a good teacher first.

During this period of time when he returned to Luoyang, Liu Yi took care of family and state affairs, which made him have a lot less troubles. Fortunately, the women did not complain about Liu Yi's neglect. Or, as they all know, this is a critical period for the new Han Dynasty. They didn't want to affect Lewi.

After Liu Yi finished dealing with family and state affairs, he simply took time to inspect the actual living conditions of the people in the New Han Dynasty. Take a closer look at how much influence the New Han Army has on their people now that they are sending troops to fight everywhere.

For this reason, Liu Yi also deliberately disguised himself and turned into an ordinary businessman, and deliberately went to the town market outside the city to understand the real situation of the people.

Because of the prosperity of Luoyang, it directly led to the prosperity of some towns near Luoyang City.

Different from the period after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, at that time, the people from all over the Han Dynasty were displaced and became homeless, and they all dragged their families and families to Luoyang, wanting to come to Luoyang to seek a way to survive. Now, Luoyang City has a very large floating population every day. However, it is not the homeless people, but the majority of foot merchants.

When Liu Yi went out of the city, he saw a lot of traffic, among them, in addition to the foot merchants, there were also many well-dressed pedestrians, most of whom were people from wealthy families in other places, and people who wanted to come to Luoyang to see them.

This time, Liu Yi went out of the city without telling everyone, and I don't know why, but it made Liu Yi feel like a private visit.

Around Luoyang City, there are several county seats, which are now developing quite well, and the urban area is being expanded. In addition to the county seat, there are many town markets.

Most of those towns and markets used to have several large families living together, plus a few local people, and then some people who were assigned to work in the local area. In the beginning, it was just a small town where hundreds of people lived together.

These small towns will not have government departments, at most they will send one or two soldiers of the New Han Army to their places to maintain order and beware of thieves affecting their normal lives.

Now, however, after nearly a decade of development, these small towns have grown to include thousands of people living together.

Moreover, most of the pedestrians who pass through Luoyang have to pass through these small towns first.

Because these small towns are not far from Luoyang, if you want to enter the city, you can wait until tomorrow to enter the city. Because staying overnight in the town market costs much less than going into the city to stay. Therefore, many people who come to Luoyang from a long distance will choose to spend the night in the town first, and then enter the city the next day.

And people who want to leave Luoyang will also come to these small town markets first, mainly to buy some of the specialties they want, and the goods in the town market are relatively cheaper than those in Luoyang City.

In addition, in Luoyang City, there are also many purchasing merchants, who specially send people to these small towns around Luoyang, waiting for those merchants who transport goods from all directions to Luoyang for sale. Waiting here, they can purchase the goods they need at a slightly lower price. And the reason why those foot merchants are also willing to sell to those merchants is that those merchants will buy a large number of them, so that they can save the sales time of those foot merchants.

In fact, those traders who transported goods from other places to Luoyang to sell, it does not mean that they can sell all of them once they arrive in Luoyang. Sometimes, a shipment of goods, like a wagon, is even more. They are in Luoyang, and they may not be able to sell for a few days. In this way, they will spend more in Luoyang, and they will have to charge a certain fee for the storage of their goods, and they will also need to spend money on food and drink in Luoyang. If you haven't arrived in Luoyang yet, you can sell all the goods together, and you can save a lot of money for those merchants. So why wouldn't they? (To be continued......)