When the distinguished guests visited, Cao Shi asked the Shang Dining Room to prepare exquisite wine and food, and then the three of them went into the study.

"There is no need to expand anymore, at this stage, Chang'an City has complete functional areas, and it is really unnecessary for you to continue to expand to increase population and transportation costs, and artificially create a high-income urban agglomeration."

Fan Qiguang hesitated: "Then what should I do?" I always feel that Shaofu is not a competent person if he doesn't repair things. ”

Cao Shi understands his mood very well, the aura left by Cao Shi is too dazzling, so that every successor must bear the influence of his halo, and it is inevitable to make more efforts around Chang'an City, Han Anguo has been a Shaofu for three years and has made so many efforts to be recognized, whether it is the public in Chang'an or the officials of the imperial court, they will involuntarily compare the new Shaofu with Cao Shi.

"Don't compare me, it's very unfair to you, besides, the situation is unpredictable, the imperial court may use troops to fight against the Xiongnu, and the border counties will use a large number of people and a huge amount of grain and ordnance, do you think it is appropriate to spend people's power on demolition and construction outside Chang'an City at this juncture?"

Fan Itguang and Zhuang Qingzhai looked at each other, they originally wanted to ask for a project plan to add some luster to their political achievements, at least to prove that they trusted Shaofu and Da Nong Ling were not mediocre officials, and they visited Pingyang Houfu with joy, but the results were not satisfactory, but both of them were marquis who led the army, and they knew very well the significance of the Han-Hun war, and it was obviously more important to choose between the overall situation of the court and personal achievements.

"If you don't fix it, you won't fix it! I don't like to build either. ”

"Yes, don't fix it!"

Zhuang Qingzhai put down his thoughts and immediately smiled: "You don't know how difficult it is for me, since the imperial court appointed me to be this big farmer." I haven't slept a day, and I have a headache when I look at those complicated regulations and accounts. It's harder than fighting a war, since you said you don't need to build roads and buildings. That's good. ”

Fan Itguang echoed casually, the two of them are authentic military attachés, usually in charge of the affairs of the Hou Mansion is not a big problem, suddenly changed to be in charge of the huge empire is still a little bit unavailable, the three of them chatted about various rumors in the court and the opposition, Wu'an Hou Tian Wei held a banquet to celebrate his fortieth birthday, it is said that there are as many as 2,000 tables of wine banquets, and the pomp is almost as big as the specifications of the emperor marrying the queen.

Tian Wei exceeded the system for more than a day or two, relying on the captain to meddle in military affairs and give orders indiscriminately. There are hundreds of servants in the Hou Mansion, and the scene of hugging in and out of the Hou Mansion is amazing, if you don't know his identity, you still think that the emperor is out on patrol, and you don't know how beautiful it is to swagger through the city, and the noble marquis of Chang'an would have jumped up and cut him a few years ago, and now no one really comes out to speak.

The fact that the Son of Heaven can tolerate Tian Wei's constant challenge to the bottom line of imperial power just shows how serious the jealousy and suspicion of the Son of Heaven is.

"Actually, we don't have much pressure, and Tian Wei doesn't dare to provoke us. The real embarrassment is Prime Minister Dou Ying, the prime minister who is in charge of the government is half overhead by the Taiwei, there is no one in Jiuqing who is Dou Ying, and he is quite aggrieved. Fan Taguang talked about the factional strife in the court. The quarrel between the prime minister and the Taiwei gradually grew, and the Taiwei Tian Wei repeatedly crossed the prime minister to convey the emperor's will, seriously violating the prime minister's privileges.

Dou Ying is not a simple character. His connections in Chang'an City are not shallow, and the imperial historian Zhang Ou is also close friends with him. More than ten years ago, Dou Ying, who was the prince and the prince at the time. Zhang Ou, who was the court lieutenant at the time, and Zhou Yafu, who was the prime minister at the time, joined forces to protect the deposed prince Liu Rong failed, and the event as a turning point led to the resignation of the marquis Zhou Yafu, the court lieutenant Zhang Ou was demoted and left Beijing, and the crown prince Dou Ying also lost his official position and resigned in the city.

With this experience of fighting together, Zhang Ou and Dou Ying are even closer, and secretly there are few meritorious princes left in the Shangqing Partial Gang, which can also maintain the basic balance between the two sides.

"Don't worry about that, talk about the income of the treasury, if I remember correctly the annual revenue of the treasury of more than 12 billion yuan the year before last, will the Son of Heaven agree to abolish the land tax?"

"Last year, the treasury revenue was 14.3 billion yuan, and the collection of all taxes and fees excluding the commercial tax was included, and His Majesty did intend to abolish the thirty tax one, and the tax burden provided by this tax was only 600 million yuan per year.

"It's good to abolish it as soon as possible, the symbolism of the thirty tax is more significant, and the tax still has to rely on the commercial tax."

"Yes, business taxes have only been on the rise for a few years, and business taxes are more than four billion dollars, and it is expected that there will be higher revenues in a few years."

Cao Shi did not continue to exhaustively investigate to the end, the amount of gold in the treasury is particularly huge, a few years but ask him and don't know how much money he has, anyway, it is always more than a few years ago, Fan It Guang also gave a general introduction to the situation of Shaofu, with the opportunity to destroy the Sanyue and expand the territory for thousands of miles, Shaofu sprinkled a lot of royal financial resources in the newly conquered areas for Sinicization education, and there is no particularly obvious change in the short term.

Shaofu's work is far easier than the Great Agricultural Order, the importance of the royal treasury to the Son of Heaven is extraordinary, he only needs to take the money everywhere to throw money to earn it back, more than half of the land in the South Vietnam Plain is easily eaten by the Shaofu, and the poor people who go south from the north are happy to accept the recruitment of the Shaofu to become farmers who rent land in the Huangzhuang, and the Shaofu can also provide grain seeds, iron tools and southern buffalo, and let them slowly take root and sprout in the land of South Vietnam.

The three of them chatted happily, and in the afternoon, they were full of wine and food and removed the tail seat, and Cao Shi got up to send the two back to rest.

"I don't have a few days to stay in Chang'an, and in a few days I will leave for Longxi County to pacify the people in the border areas, you have to do it yourself."

"Take care!"

Cao Shi's eyes swept to the carrier pigeon in the corner of the back garden, opened the messenger on the pigeon's feet and looked at the more frightened, the Huns trained three thousand heavy cavalry in the Mobei grassland, wearing a thick leather armor jacket strange iron sheet armor, the elite is obviously not as good as the Yulin cavalry that has been trained for many years, it is precisely the north guarded by the Yulin cavalry that is very difficult to deal with, and the Huns do not want to bump into the Yulin cavalry.

The quality of the 3,000 heavy cavalry cannot change higher in the short term, not to mention that the financial resources of the Xiongnu to maintain the ordinary cavalry are still do, the mounts of the heavy cavalry need to eat more dry food and grains to supplement the body, the Xiongnu grassland is not short of cattle and sheep, there is no shortage of pasture, the most scarce grain, there are hundreds of tribes scattered in the south and north of the desert with Han captives to plant grain, there are 50,000 Han people near the Longcheng in the north of the desert to cultivate grain, but that bit of food is only enough for the nobles of the royal court to change their tastes, and it is far from popularizing the heavy cavalry.

"Although many cavalrymen use the worst leather lassoes and imitation saddles, they are definitely strong neighbors in the north of the platoon." Cao Shi pouted secretly, the contempt of the Huns thought that they were not too much, but their combat effectiveness could not be underestimated, and another letter was sent to the Huns in the abnormal season, and the Xianbei people who fought with a very powerful system were forced to withdraw without any power to fight back.

Cao Shi suddenly said, "Huh? This pigeon is very familiar! I remember correctly, it should be one of the carrier pigeons sent out by the Hou Mansion, could it be that they are in trouble in Parthia? ”

In the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon, Zhang Qian did encounter a lot of trouble, and all four of his members sat down in the dungeon.

"Mr. Zhang, please help us!"

Zhang Qian rolled his eyes and continued to keep his head silent, he was suspected of carrying Tasparamia across the Parthian border, and was stopped by the Parthian cavalry and sent back to Ctesiphon, fortunately, the caravan was scattered into several ways out of the city before being caught, and the problems along the way did not affect the others to leave immediately, which was equivalent to exchanging his identity for the opportunity to retreat and escape.

Tasparamia successfully escaped back, but he himself was controlled here and couldn't move, Zhang Qian was annoyed and helpless, but he and more than 200 companions had a relatively large target, and it was already the limit to be able to let Tasparaamia escape, and it was impossible to get out of control by himself.

In a room next to him sat a young man who looked very familiar, Zhang Qian took a closer look at the river beach was Seleucid Emperor Dmitry II, who was always so proud and indifferent, and he was also cold to his own people without any smile.

Zhang Qian huddled in the dungeon and pretended to sleep, in order to fight for privileges at the mercy of the local rulers, their caravan came to the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon in the name of the Orientals, he waited for the opportunity to escape from the dungeon, the cover of the night was the best chance to escape, and the skilled man could see all the parts of his body clearly.

At this moment, a voice came from the arrow in the dungeon opposite: "Oriental, can you take me out of the dungeon?" ”

"How much can it cost?"

Dmitry II fell into a brief sigh of praise: "I cannot let you continue to live, but I must stick to my habits, and I have nothing left to pay you." ”

"You are the emperor, you say there is nothing to give us? Then we don't do this business. ”

"I'm penniless, hiding here to sell my collection, you should know how expensive parchment is......"

Zhang Qian shrank his head and continued to sleep without saying a word, not giving you a hot opportunity to complain at all, and it was completely pointless to talk about how many times he died.

Dmitry II had no choice but to retreat and say: "I will give you whatever you want, first of all you will send me out, I do not want to stay in this cold cell." ”

"Her Royal Highness the Princess has arrived!"

A glimmer of light flashed outside the cell and suddenly disappeared in an instant, only to hear a rapid footstep coming: "Your Majesty, how are you thinking about it?" Father is very polite to you, as long as you stay in Ctesiphon and cheer for me Parthia, you don't need to comment more on the other teams. ”

Dmitry II exclaimed: "Rhodoguna, how could it be you? (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and faster!)