"Yes, yes, Lord Cheng proposed well, these two things can be done at the same time." A group of civil and military officers in the main hall echoed one after another. At that time, people paid attention to feng shui, these ministers were in prominent positions, and many people began to think about their own afterlife, and even selected a few feng shui treasures, just waiting for the emperor's mausoleum to start construction, they had to plan for themselves, so they all seemed impatient.

However, they are not lying when they say that two things can be done at the same time. The emperor's mausoleum cost a huge amount of money, and it was a long and huge project, but the heroic cemetery, in the eyes of everyone, was just equivalent to the martyr's cemetery in Xiangyang and the like, and it didn't cost much silver taels. With the reunification of the Han Dynasty, the national strength has increased day by day, the tax revenue has nearly doubled compared with last year, and the national treasury is full. What's more, the emperor's mausoleum cannot be completed in a year or two, and it will not add too much burden to the imperial court.

Liu Xin shook his head and asked in a deep voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, in your eyes, am I a hero?" Did I contribute to the Han Dynasty? ”

The ministers said in unison: "Your Majesty's great achievements, although the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty are reincarnated, it is difficult to match them. Your Majesty is not a hero, who dares to call the word hero? ”

It's not that the ministers are slapping Liu Xin's sycophants, and they have been following Liu Xin for a long time, and they also know that Liu Xin doesn't eat this set, and they are even a little disgusted. These words are exactly what they really think in their hearts.

Liu Xin nodded and said, "Since I can be regarded as a hero, then why can't I enter this hero cemetery after a hundred years?" If I am qualified to enter this cemetery, then do you need to build any more mausoleums for me? ”

The ministers were stunned for a while, and Cai Yong arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, you are a golden body, how can you ...... with those people?"

"There's nothing you can't do!" Liu Xin waved his hand and said, "In the future, neither I nor my descendants are allowed to build special mausoleums, nor are they allowed to use all kinds of rare treasures as burials, let alone burials with living people!" Not only me and my descendants, but no one is allowed to be buried with a living person, and those who violate it will be punished with murder! ”

It is rare to be buried with a living person, but after the death of the emperor and some dignitaries, they will still let their personal servants and even some wives and concubines who have not given birth as funeral objects. Liu Xin must eradicate this bad habit.

Regarding the use of some precious gold and silver jewelry as funeral objects, Liu Xin did not have any special requirements for others. Because he knew that in this era, people's minds were still very superstitious, and many people believed that after death, people would live a similar life as they did when they died, but in a different world, so they always brought their favorite things into the mausoleum.

However, Liu Xin himself would not do such a stupid thing. Throughout the ages, how many emperors brought the gold, silver and jewelry into the tombs ended up cheapening the arrogant tomb robbers, and finally made the deceased uneasy. He just wants to tell the world that in the tomb of their Liu family, there is nothing, and naturally no one has to make up their minds.

Cai Yong hesitated: "Your Majesty, that heroic cemetery still needs to be surveyed and selected from scratch, but the eldest prince is ......."

Liu Xin straightened his face and said loudly: "Hugh wants to mention that son of a son again!" What contribution did he have to the Great Han, and what qualifications did he have to enter the Heroes Cemetery! You are bent on making him the crown prince, and he was actually scared to death by the word capital crime, such a person is also worthy of being called a hero? If the Han dynasty is handed over to him, think about it! ”

All the civil and military were speechless, especially the ministers who supported the establishment of Liu Bang as the prince, and their faces were full of shame. A few ministers were still thinking that the cultivation of the tomb would not be completed, so let's continue to mention the matter of the reserve. Liu Bang is dead, and the "second son" Liu Yu has always won the favor of Liu Xin and his wife, if Liu Yu is proposed to be the prince, Liu Xin should not have an opinion. As a result, when he heard Liu Xin angry, no one dared to mention it anymore, but let Liu Xin be quiet for a while.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Liu Xin returned to the harem, appeased Zhen Mi a few words, and sent someone to send her home. He also ordered someone to prepare a good coffin, collected Liu Bang, and buried him on the edge of the Huangzhuang outside Chang'an City. The whole process was carried out publicly, and on the day of the funeral, Chang'an City was empty. Although Liu Bang was not publicly beheaded, Liu Xin did not embarrass the girl, and the people finally believed that the prince in the law of the Han Dynasty was guilty of the same crime as the common people.

When winter approached another year, news came back from the city of Rome that Ptymius was seriously ill and that Caracalla and Gaita had announced their accession to the throne at the same time. However, the two brothers did not fight openly and secretly like the Arshak and Ardaban brothers, but secretly agreed that whoever helped Putimius avenge first would officially become the emperor of Great Qin.

The death of Ptimius was public, and the caravans traveling to and from Great Qin knew about it, but the news that Caracalla and Geita were determined to avenge their father was obtained by the Foreign Intelligence Service with great effort.

Although Putimius died of his own illness, the root cause of his illness was because he was defeated by the Han army in Parthia, so the two Caracalla brothers took this revenge on the Han Dynasty.

And through this year's time, Caracalla also learned that the Han people did not use a "demon method", but a new type of siege equipment. But the Han Chinese kept the secret of this device very closely, and outsiders had no way of knowing how it was made, or even how it worked. As long as he couldn't find a way to crack this siege machine, Caracalla didn't dare to act rashly, so the agreement between the two brothers could only be discussed in secret.

However, the news still reached Chang'an, and Liu Xin convened the ministers to discuss. Zhang Fei said disdainfully: "Big brother has always looked down on Da Qin in the past, but in my opinion, it is simply vulnerable, just because they also want to come to my Han for revenge?" ”

Liu Xin shook his head and said, "Everything is foreseen, and you should not underestimate Great Qin." The vast territory and population of Daqin far exceed that of our Han Dynasty. Moreover, the people of Daqin are all tall and powerful, and if they fight hand-to-hand, we Han people will still suffer a little loss. Therefore, I thought that I still had to prepare early and strengthen the guards of the two fortresses in the concession and on the green ridge. In this way, I plan to add another 50,000 soldiers to the Western Regions Legion, do you have any opinions? ”

In this way, the Western Regions Legion will be expanded to 150,000 people, becoming the largest legion, but because Liu Xin implemented a policy of rotation rest for the Western Regions Legion, there are always some soldiers of the Western Regions Legion on vacation, and there is no war in the east for the time being, and the only threat to the Han is from the west. Once something happens in the West, the Western Regions Army will bear the brunt, so it is normal to give them some additional troops, and all the ministers have no opinion.

In order to ensure that support could be provided to the concession and the Western Regions in a timely manner, Liu Xin also ordered the four main armies of the first, second, third and sixth to be concentrated in Sili and Liangzhou, and at the same time further gathered supplies in the Uzberi and Tulugert fortresses. The deployment and transportation of all kinds of materials, even including the road from Uzberi to the Han concession in Parthia, did not need Liu Xin to personally intervene, and Liu Xin was in charge of his own cabinet and six divisions, and Liu Xin was much easier.

As the winter passed, the Great Qin Empire continued to expand its army, with a total size of a staggering 1.6 million men divided into thirty-two legions. Naturally, these news could not be concealed from the eyes and ears of the Han Foreign Intelligence Department, and the Han Dynasty also began to prepare for war intensively, and all the soldiers canceled their vacations indefinitely and were ready to go on the expedition at any time. But Parthia, sandwiched between the two empires, was in a state of peace and dance. The death of Ptimius, the "greatest Parthian conqueror", completely discouraged the Vologis and their sons, unaware of the imminent danger of an even greater crisis.

Although there were two Great Qin Emperors in the city of Rome, the order was not chaotic in the slightest, and the business of the caravan was not affected. However, among these two emperors, Caracalla was more calm and more recognized by the nobles of Great Qin. As the eldest son, he rightfully lived in the royal palace of Ptimius.

In a secret room in the palace, Caracalla was listening to Ojed's report. After the defeat of Parthia, Ojed was taken prisoner by the Han army, and was later released by Jia Xu and asked him to bring a letter to Putimius, in exchange for more than a year of peace. But according to the law of Great Qin, Ojiede was defeated this time, and the commander of the legion could not do it. However, he was a close confidant of Caracalla, and after the death of Putimius, Caracalla reactivated him to collect information related to the Great Han.

Ojed sent two groups of men to try to disguise themselves as caravans and infiltrate the territory of the Han Dynasty, but they could only reach Maoling, and they were told that they could not continue eastward. Ojed quickly changed his tactics and instead tried to buy off the merchants of the Great Han.

Businessmen seek profit, and it stands to reason that as long as they have money, they are not afraid of not being able to buy information. As a result, Ojed racked his brains, and none of the big Han caravans were willing to cooperate with him. Not to mention that these civilian caravans had no access to the secrets of the army at all, and even if they knew some information, they did not dare to disclose it to the Great Qin people. Because after the law of the Han Dynasty was revised, the disclosure of secrets, whether commercial or military, was tantamount to treason. Treason is the most serious crime, and the traitor himself cannot escape the death penalty, and even the gold medal for avoiding death cannot save his life, and it will also affect his family. The "cost performance" of this is so low that no shrewd businessman wants to take this risk.

But Ojed was not discouraged, and after several efforts, he finally found a Han man who was willing to cooperate, and this Han man also knew many important secrets. However, this Han man has a big shelf, and he must meet Caracalla himself before he can tell these secrets.