If Liu Xinzao's plan to order the halving of commercial taxes was his plan, this order was decided by him only temporarily this morning. This is what Ma Yun said that the rule inspired him, why the Taishou in various places are getting more and more bold and dare not listen to the orders of the imperial court, because they are too powerful, they not only hold heavy troops, but also control local money and grain. Liu Xin's purpose is to separate the military from the government, so that the generals in charge of the army cannot do without the support of local money and food, and the local officials must rely on the protection of the army and check each other, so that no one can dominate the family.

Liu Xin smiled and said, "You guys sit down first, and I have to announce the third order." After the New Year, another 20,000 recruits were recruited from all over the country, and all the regular troops were organized into five major legions. Xu Huang was the commander of the First Legion, Zhang Fei was the commander of the Second Legion, Zhang He was the commander of the Third Legion, and Zhao Yun was the commander of the Fourth Legion, each commanding 10,000 troops. Huang Zhong was the commander of the Fifth Army Corps, commanding 15,000 troops. The conscripted soldiers were no longer organized according to geography, but were to be broken up and reorganized into the various regiments. ”

Xu Huang, Zhang Fei, Zhang He, and Zhao Yun all stood up and arched their hands and said, "Obey the orders of the eldest brother!" ”

Liu Xin waited for them to sit down and continued: "I plan to build a training center on the outskirts of Xiangyang City, and in the future, each regiment will take turns to send some soldiers into the center to participate in actual combat training, and this training center will be in charge of Wenpin. ”

Wenpin was in charge of the training of the special forces secretly formed some time ago, and all affairs were done in a decent manner, and finally got Liu Xin's appreciation and was able to take charge of himself, hearing this, he quickly got up and said: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

Liu Xin looked at Cai Mao again and said, "Now I announce the fifth order. The Jingzhou Navy underwent a major adjustment and was divided into three fleets, stationed in Jiangxia, Jiangling, and Changsha. Except for the Jiangxia soldiers, the rest of the soldiers were scattered and incorporated into the naval armies of Jiangling and Changsha, which were led by Gan Ning and Zhang Yun respectively. Cai Mao was still the captain of the navy and led the Jiangxia soldiers to be stationed in situ. Deju, the situation there is more complicated, and the burden on your shoulders is not light. ”

Although Cai Mao was a little reluctant, she had no choice but to bow and say: "The last general must live up to his mission." ”

Everyone saw that they had already talked about the navy, and it was estimated that his order had been almost promulgated, but Liu Xin looked at Kong Wen again and said, "Kong Wen, you are now in charge of the research institute, and the burden is not light." After the New Year, you select some skilled craftsmen, go to Gangneung, inspect the terrain there, if suitable, build a shipyard there, build a batch of new warships, and I will discuss the specific ideas with you in detail. ”

Kong Wen also promised again and again. No one expected that at the beginning of the new year, Liu Xin issued five decrees in a row, obviously he didn't rest at home some time ago, and couldn't help but be in awe of him, but who knew that he only came up with them in the morning.

Liu Xin saw that everyone's faces became serious, smiled, and said, "As I said just now, let's go separately after the Spring Festival." Now, I will say two more things. ”

Everyone listened to his orders, and their hearts "chuckled", it seemed that this year's Spring Festival was not easy.

But I heard Liu Xin say slowly: "On the fifteenth day of the first month, I am going to do two happy events. Tian Feng, Huang Zhong, and Gan Ning couldn't leave Changsha, so they held a wedding for Xu Chuying. Yide, your marriage with Miss Xiahou was also done on this day. ”

Everyone suddenly relaxed and congratulated Zhang Fei in unison.

Liu Xin was busy giving orders in front, and Ma Yun was not idle in the back house, she used to scratch the posture in front of Liu Xin some time ago, and sent them all to some remote courtyards to do some rough chores. transferred Ling'er and Xiu'er sisters to his side. Bian Yu and Zhu Qian also changed some ladies and ladies from big families to be maids, after all, these people are educated, and they will pay more attention to etiquette.

In the past, Ma Yun didn't pay much attention to the difference between inside and outside, but last night's scene sounded the alarm bell for her, and today she especially reiterated that the house slaves in the front yard are not allowed to enter the inner house without permission, and the offender will be killed on the spot. On the side, Liu Xin's study also changed a few clever little maids to serve as scholars, and no longer used maids to serve.

After Ma Yun made such a big move, the maids who wanted to be on top of their own hearts had even slimmer hopes, but who dared to say the word "no"?

On the fifteenth day of the first month, the city of Changsha was lit up with lights, Xu Chu was dressed in red and green, riding a high-headed horse, carrying the flower Jiao, and going to the Song family to welcome his relatives. Everything needed for the wedding, even the guest ceremony and the wine banquet were all purchased by the Song family, Song Gang spent blood this time, the dowry was loaded with ten carts, and there were as many as twenty maids to marry. Although Liu Xin did not come to congratulate in person, he also sent someone to send a generous gift, and asked Cai Yong to write a congratulatory message. Daddy Xu has never disappeared since he got up in the morning, and he boasted that he had found a good daughter-in-law.

The fly in the ointment is that Xu Chusheng's surname is good wine, and those who come to the wedding banquet do not refuse, so he got drunk and was sent into the cave room by someone, and slept in bed until dawn, causing Song Qi to sit all night. Since then, the husband and wife gossip, this matter has always been used by Song Qi to laugh at Xu Chu, and Xu Chu often makes her speechless.

In Xiangyang City, it was a different scene, Zhang Fei and Xiahou Juan already lived together, and there were no parents and elders in front of them, which naturally saved a lot of trouble. The scope of the wedding banquet was not expanded, only Liu Xin brought a group of cronies to the door to congratulate him.

Cai Yong sat at the wine table, with mixed tastes in his heart. At this time last year, he made a ceremony for his daughter in Xinye, because Cai Yan proposed to withdraw from the relationship with the Wei family, and in a fit of anger, he almost burned down the Xinye County Ya. A year has passed in the blink of an eye, and too many things have happened in the meantime, and now the relationship with the Wei family has also retired, and her daughter is a year older, but her life is gone.

Knowing a daughter is like a father, what Cai Yan thinks, Cai Yong has a stomach in his heart. When she was about to withdraw from her family last year, she compared Wei Zhongdao with Liu Xin, and recently this girl has been running more diligently to Liu Xin's house. To say that there was a misunderstanding with Liu Xin, Cai Yong has a good impression of him now. Not to mention anything else, on the first day of the Lunar New Year alone, five decrees were issued in a row, and this professionalism was unique among the officials Cai Yong had seen, especially among young people.

But if Cai Yong wants to marry his daughter to Liu Xin, he is a little in a dilemma. Regardless of whether Liu Xin himself has this intention or not, if Cai Yan marries in the past, this identity will make Cai Yong difficult to let go. If her daughter wanted to withdraw from her family, she would have promised her to Liu Xin, after all, Liu Xin only had Ma Yun as a wife at that time. Now Liu Xin not only has Bian Yu and Zhu Qian, but even the girl named Qiao'er who saw Ma Yun next to her on New Year's Day has changed into a woman's outfit. Even if his Cai Yong's daughter is a concubine, he has to line up behind a girl and tell him how to meet people.

Cai Yan, this girl, is obviously assertive now, if she marries an ordinary family, she will never look down on her, but where can she find someone who can be comparable to Liu Xin?

Cai Yong sat at the wedding banquet, full of thoughts. He was the head of the academy, and everyone in his family would have three or two children who were going to study, and the people who attended the wedding banquet respected him very much, and everyone would come to salute him for a glass or two of wine. Cai Yong didn't refuse to come, and no one noticed that this old gentleman, who had always been reserved, was drunk unconsciously.

After the first month, the New Year's atmosphere gradually dissipated, and everyone began to be busy in full swing according to Liu Xin's arrangement.

Xu Huang and Zhang He have completed the affairs of the county, and together with Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, they have started the work of recruiting new soldiers. Liu Xin attached great importance to this recruitment, knowing that the price to be paid to train a peasant into a qualified soldier was very huge.

Due to the difference in living environment, the nomadic people in the north, who grew up on horseback, are qualified warriors as long as they can pick up bows and arrows. The peasants, on the other hand, did not even use swords and guns, not to mention archery on horseback, as can be seen from the battle of the Yellow Turban Army against the elite soldiers of the imperial court.

Liu Xin wants to take the route of elite soldiers, and he hopes to cultivate a group of professional soldiers. Therefore, in the selection of troop sources, he first emphasized that the age must be between 18 and 20 years old, so that this army can maintain its combat effectiveness for at least 15 years after long-term training.

Since he is a professional soldier, Liu Xin's salary is relatively high, even high enough that an ordinary soldier can support his wife and children with military salary alone. Since the new army is no longer divided according to their place of origin, but has scattered and reorganized the recruits from all over the country, many people will inevitably be far from home. Liu Xin stipulated that each soldier could be entitled to two family visits a year, each of which lasted for a month. On the other hand, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Liu Xin also stipulated that anyone who dares to annihilate the military ** or collude with the military ** will be sentenced to death, and he also has a crime called the crime of sabotaging the military marriage.

This series of regulations was issued at the same time as the conscription, so this year's recruitment of new recruits is progressing very smoothly, and it took only five or six days to fill the shortage of nearly 30,000 soldiers, and there is still an endless stream of conscripts who come to sign up.

After a month of intense construction, the training center in charge of Wenpin has also begun to take shape. The training center is also located in the southwest of Xiangyang City, among the peaks of the Dan Shan Mountains, not far from the training base of the special forces he is in charge of, so that he can take care of both sides.

Kong Wen also took the craftsmen he selected to Jiangling a few times, although he did not know the technology of shipbuilding, but with the experience of developing various paper products, Kong Wen still showed some of his talents in overall planning, not to mention that Liu Xin did not have this talent available now. Liu Xin also knows nothing about shipbuilding, but he still has some knowledge from later generations, such as laying keels, sealing cabins, and slapsticks used in ancient water battles, etc., as for how to achieve these things, it can only depend on the wisdom of these craftsmen.

Liu Xin has a vague impression that from Dong Zhuo's rebellion to the return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin, it lasted for nearly a hundred years, and in this hundred years, the population of the Han Dynasty dropped sharply from 56 million to 160,000, and the total loss of 40 million people. Liu Xin doesn't want history to repeat itself in front of his eyes, what he wants to do is to end the upcoming troubled times as soon as possible. As a result, Liu Xin had a preliminary long-term plan.