Chapter 192: Generals, Myths, and Divine Horses
ps: Kuafu chasing the sun, this is what I mentioned earlier, everyone must have understood. \\
The two middle-aged men waited in the living room for a long time, and drank the tea with their hearts, and they hurried from Huaishang all the way to an edict of the Son of Heaven.
The important related person of the edict is precisely Cao Shi, who has stepped down from Shaofu and is now a general of the Che Cavalry.
The wait was not long, the curtain in the living room shook slightly, and a young man with a burly and sturdy figure of eight feet three inches (1.92 meters) walked in, who had grown a lot taller this year, and placed in the standard of the Qin people who were more mixed with Xirong, eight feet was just a height difference, and the shortest Qin terracotta warriors and horses were 1.75 meters, generally between 1.8 meters and 1.97 meters.
Liu Che's height is not short, he is 1.78 meters at the age of sixteen, and he may be able to exceed 1.85 meters in two years.
"Liang Han Anguo meets Pingyang Hou!"
"Master Father of Qi people to meet the Marquis of Pingyang!"
"You don't have to be polite."
Cao Shi carefully looked at the two of them, the master father Yan was his old acquaintance, and when he left the Pingyang Hou Mansion, he was in high spirits, but his face was full of wind and frost in the past two years, and he must have suffered a lot.
Han Anguo is the same age as the main father, but his fame is much greater than that of the main father, as early as a few years ago, he once lived in the domestic history of Liang, and his rank was more than 2,000 stones.
"Han Changru."
"Yes."
Cao Shi smiled: "Do you know why I recommended you to the Son of Heaven?" Why do you want to recommend you to be one of the Shaofu of the Nine Qings? β
"I don't know." Han Anguo was full of uneasiness.
"You are the important minister of Liu Wu, the king of Liang Xiao, and at a young age, you were favored by the Empress Dowager and promoted to the history of the Liang country. It's a pity that you are not favored, Liu Wu, the king of Liangxiao, doesn't like you, and Liu Mai, the current king of Liang, doesn't like you either. Find a reason to pull you out. β
Han Anguo was sweating profusely, his little secret couldn't be hidden from anyone at all, he was so strange because of his contradictions, no one wanted to offend Liu Mai, the king of Liang.
"The Empress Dowager has a kindness to you, have you thought about repaying it?"
"I think that serving the country with loyalty is the best reward."
"You're cunning!"
Cao Shi smiled, Han Anguo is a smart person. There is no lack of decency and a little cunning in doing things, and after losing his official position in the past two years, Han Anguo has been looking for opportunities to recommend himself as an official everywhere.
However, Liu Maiji, the king of Liang, hated him for indirectly leading his father to die of illness. blamed Liu Wu's death on Han Anguo, who was appointed by the imperial court, as the internal history, and released a word early that no one was allowed to use this person, so he went to the vassal states to seek officials, if he didn't intervene. In a few years, you will find Tian Wei through the tortuous doorway. bribed Wu Anhou with five hundred gold to get a position.
"I'm giving you a chance to display your talents, so that you can stand on the stage of Jiuqing and serve the country loyally, but this qiΔ is not without a price."
Han Anguo nodded like a chicken pecking rice.
Before he came, he was ready, and he would be willing to pay any price, as long as he didn't let him die.
"You must clearly understand that your position as a young man comes from the appreciation of the Son of Heaven. From my strong recommendation, only I can ignore the warning of Liang Wang Liu Mai. You have to accept some of my construction, no one knows Shaofu's business better than me, I single-handedly built the miracle of quadrupling Shaofu's revenue capacity, you don't listen to my JianyΓ¬ is against yourself, and also against the Son of Heaven. β
Han Anguo's heart tightened: "You said quadruple? β
On the other hand, the annual income of the inner treasury under the control of Shaofu quadrupled, from 4.2 billion yuan to 1.3 billion yuan, and the increase in a large number of Huangzhuang brought about a bumper harvest, the profit of minting money is dozens of times that of this figure. β
The eyes of the master father almost popped out, the annual income of the treasury is 8.5 billion yuan, the annual income of the inner treasury is 1.3o billion yuan, and the income of more than 2oo billion yuan on both sides is added up, which sounds like it makes people's pores stand up, this is not the Han Empire, which was poor and white in the past, and it has only been a few decades to make this poor empire very rich, and even rich is a bit sensational.
He didn't dare to imagine what the concept of dozens of times the profit of minting money was, whether it was 2ooo billion money or 3ooo billion money, it was an incomprehensible huge number, he didn't know that when the gold, silver and copper were minted three and a half two coins, the inner treasury had almost 4ooo billion five-baht coins, and now it has become a currency storage based on gold and silver coins, supplemented by copper and half a tael, and the gold coin appreciated by doubled, and the difference brought by the appreciation of silver coins several times made the treasury worth more than 8.1oo billion five-baht coins.
More than 5 percent of the world's gold and silver lie in the inner treasury of Shaofu and do not move, and 2 percent are placed in the treasury of the Great Agricultural Order, and only 3 percent of the gold and silver currency is in normal circulation in the market, they are mainly held in the hands of the rich and large merchants, and the brass half two coins and five baht coins are purely the daily currency of the people's circulation, and the bulk transactions have completed the transformation of gold and silver transactions.
"Shaofu is my hard work, but also the son of heaven's money bag, you need beautiful political achievements to sit firmly in the position of Jiuqing, I need the Han Empire to continue to steadily increase revenue, according to my plan in the next three years the treasury and the inner treasury will continue to maintain high growth, new agricultural technology will be spread to every corner of the world in the new year, the national grain output will increase by 2% in three years, the crisis of food shortage can be solved temporarily, within three years you will get all the honors you want, this is what I can give you, I think you know what I mean. β
Of course Han Anguo understands, he understands it too well.
He was very smart, and he knew that King Liang Liu Mai was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he would rather choose to find a small mistake to defile himself and escape, and he would never want to live under Liu Mai's nose and be scared, for fear that one day he would be arrested and killed for ridiculous reasons.
He has no capital to bargain with Cao Shi, let alone the capital to backtrack afterwards, Wei Wan can't fight him, and the princess of the pavilion Tao can't fight him. Even the Empress Dowager failed to completely take down the young prince in front of her.
Cao Shi can sit here and calmly make arrangements for the aftermath, proving that the Son of Heaven and the young chariot general have formed a tacit understanding, and the maximum amount of time can be ensured that the internal power of the Shaofu is stable. To ensure the smooth progress of the Jianyuan New Deal, it is now the initial stage of the dividend return of the New Deal, and there will be at least three to five years of high dividend return period, until the treasury and internal treasury revenues slowly enter the stable period, which will mark the complete completion of the reform of the Jianyuan New Deal.
Han Anguo did not hesitate.
"I am willing to accept the guidance of the general of the Che Cavalry, and your guidance is very important to the new policy of Jianyuan, although my ability to be ignorant is limited. But there is also a prioritization of priorities, with New Deal reforms being the most urgent, and personal ambitions can be put aside. If you can enter the Taichang Mansion in three years, you will have the confidence to display your personal ambitions. β
Cao Shi was slightly stunned, and then laughed loudly: "I didn't expect that your Han Changru ambition is not small, and it is too often Jiuqingzhi." You also want to be a pawn in three years. Such a big appetite is not afraid of breaking your teeth? β
"I have a little confidence in myself, and as long as you support it after the three-year period, it is too often in the bottom."
"Hehe, it depends on how you have behaved in the past three years, and you will understand the truth of Xiao Gui Cao Sui, if you do well in the past three years, it will be yours too often."
He didn't expect Han Anguo to be so bold, neither angry nor nervous. didn't even accept the basic reaction with humility, and bluntly proposed that the price of being a puppet echo bug was very high. His appetite is too common for Jiuqingzhi.
But it doesn't matter, an ethereal gesture of support, in exchange for three years of diligent listening, Cao Shi feels that this deal is very worthwhile, and the future will be talked about in the future, maybe in another three years, where the feng shui will go.
"Please ask the general of the chariot to guide, how to contact after the next performance of duties."
Cao Shi muttered: "Shaofu Cheng Zhang Tang, my newly promoted henchman, his ability is good, you can give him some important things to do, let him tell me if there is a stir, and there is also the master father Mr. Yan, he can enter and leave your house as a friend, or write to you as an instruction." β
"Remember, if there is nothing to do, take a step forward and go to Weiyang Palace to meet the Son of Heaven."
"There you go."
Han Anguo left quickly, his convoy was escorted by the county soldiers, he came in the name of visiting the sponsor before he came, and it was normal for him to come over and say a few words to express his gratitude, but if he stayed here for too long, it would inevitably be gossip.
It doesn't matter if the master father is so bad, he doesn't have an official body and he doesn't worry about being accused, so he arched his hand and said: "The general of the chariot has not seen him for many years, and he has grown from an immature boy to a heroic hero, congratulations!" β
"How did Mr. Master Father spend two years in Huainan Kingdom?"
"The king of Huainan is ambitious, timid as a mouse, eloquent, strategic, undecisive, neither willing to hear the good news of the Son of Heaven, but also does not want to face his own embarrassing situation, likes to read Huang Lao but loves amazing words, in the next Huainan country stayed in Huainan for two years and was depressed, until he met Han Anguo, who failed to recommend himself, he was introduced as a confidant, and the question of the prince also asked Han Changru, and he also admired the prince very much."
Cao Shi is noncommittal, the whereabouts of the master father Yan is not difficult to check, and his temper is difficult to reuse, Liu An is a mixture of Huang Lao and miscellaneous studies, and he is interested in the vertical and horizontal studies of the master father Yan but does not believe in it, and the master father Yan is a proud person, it is easy to conflict with the disciples of the king of Huainan, and it is reasonable that he is not good at mixing.
Several years of repeated thinking and suffering experience have brought him a lot of changes, the master father Yan also learned to hide his pride and be careful, at least he will no longer shout "the husband is not born to eat, death is to cook the ear" nonsense, in Huainan has seen a large number of talented people speculative failure, he can always find himself in the past 20 years from the tragic departure of those people.
In the past two years, he has been very serious about reading Huang Laoxue's works such as "Lao Tzu" and "Guanzi", and Cao Shi's "On the Death of Qin" and "Theory of Money" have also been recited by him repeatedly.
Cao Shi was still not very relieved, and opened his mouth to probe: "Do you think the vertical and horizontal technique can govern the country?" β
"Can't! Governing the country under the will inevitably be inseparable from "Guanzi". β
"Under what circumstances do you think the Vertical and Horizontal Technique can be used?"
The master replied firmly: "There is only war!" It is sad to lose the longitudinal and warlord. β
Cao Shi's eyes lit up, war was exactly what he needed, and the general of the chariot cavalry did not fight. It's better to play parallel bars at home.
"You just stay with me and be a staff member!"
The master father was overjoyed and said, "Thank you General Che Cavalry for taking it in!" β
The staff is called the shogunate.
The name of the shogunate originated from the Warring States period. The general goes out to fight, and the place is impermanent, and the place is the rule, so it is said that 'Mofu'.
From the time of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty forward, the general has always been very official but can serve for a long time, the general Chai Wubai, the Marquis of Thorn Pu, once wrote to Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to the Northern Expedition to the Huns.
The general leads the troops to fight. No matter where you go, you have to set up a stronghold, and you have to have bureaucrats to handle military affairs, which is called Mofu. That is, the shogunate.
Under normal circumstances, the general did not have the right to recruit the shogunate on his own, and the situation of Cao Shi was somewhat different.
Liu Che, the son of heaven, thought that he was ashamed of Cao, and specially allowed him to conquer the shogunate. He also gave him the power to train and reorganize the army. Cao Shi became the most powerful general since the founding of the early Han Dynasty.
The master father is a vertical and horizontal family, and lacks the talent to help the world.
If he is arranged to govern the country step by step, he will either cause big trouble that is perverse, or he will lose his self-confidence, just like he is now afraid of his tail.
Cao Shi hopes to let him grind off the edges and corners, but he doesn't want him to become a fake Taoist full of yellow elders, which is a huge waste of the Zongheng family. He went to learn from Huang Lao, and his self-cultivation was greater than governing the country and the country.
Arrange for the master father to stay in it. Cao Shi received a long-lost letter, which was sent to the carrier pigeon.
According to legend, the carrier pigeon was a method used by Liu Bang to summon rescue troops during the Chu-Han War, and the specific source is unclear, probably a new thing that suddenly appeared seventy years ago.
Han Ting mastered the technology of training carrier pigeons, and Zhang Qian, as a Han envoy, naturally carried a few cages of carrier pigeons with the mission caravan.
"I arrived in Shule Country half a year ago, it seems that I should be in Dawan at this time, Dawan's sweat and blood BMW, I hope you can surprise me." Cao Shi faced to the west and smiled.
Dawan country, 2 division city, at night.
Zhang Qian shrank in a cramped and low house to read his notes, only the panorama of the entire Western Regions was reflected under the candlelight the size of a bean, and after careful identification and proofreading by the caravan, the atlas handed over by Cao Shi had been revised several times, and the wrong places in the river markings had been corrected.
"Usunkun Mota is abominable! sent a few cavalry to stop us, if it weren't for the Wusun cavalry's obstruction, we would all have arrived at the Great Moon Clan. β
"We wasted a year in vain, and we all blame that group of hateful Wusun people."
"If it weren't for the fact that there weren't many of us, I would really like to eat those Wusun cavalry, their war horses are so good!"
"Haha, that's the West Pole Horse that Wusun is abundant, and you're also greedy?"
"How can we not be greedy, we bought and exchanged 4,000 war horses along the way, and there are only more than 300 West Pole horses, which is not enough to equip their whole team to change their clothes."
The shulding Shule people squatted beside the bonfire and carefully added firewood, their eyes stared at the fresh leg of lamb roasted on the bonfire from time to time, and their hungry belly saliva was about to flow out, they were new members of the caravan, their status in the caravan was very low, and they were not qualified to fight, and they could only be responsible for taking care of the horse's chores of boiling water and cooking.
The Shule people did not feel very aggrieved, they could see more than 2oo captured slaves in their spare eyes, they were the lowly ones in the caravan, the slaves came from horse thieves, thieves, swindlers and outlaws, they were greedy for the huge wealth of the caravan and started to plunder, but they did not expect to steal chickens and rice, and put themselves in it.
According to the rules of the Western Regions, the ownership of captive slaves belonged to their masters, and even if they were tortured to death, no one would sympathize.
The Shule people felt fortunate that they were treated as new caravans, and the strong and brave Shule people were entitled to eat delicious mutton, which was the treatment of reserve knights, and the weaker Shule people could only eat pheasants and wild fish.
Lu Heng bit down the mutton fiercely and chewed it in his mouth.
One of the biggest advantages of grassland life is that the delicious meat is not exhausted, and the people who eat meat on the grassland are strong and strong, and naturally have more strength than those who eat whole grains.
The Han Chinese of the caravan were at least brave and fierce rangers, and after eating meat for a few years, they also became stronger.
"According to Wusun's slave confession, there are Hun cavalry chasing behind us, a full thousand royal tent cavalry!"
Lu Heng stared: "What's wrong?" Are you afraid of this person? What kind of bird's king's tent cavalry, we also have 800 elite soldiers, I'm afraid of them! β
"Lu Tou is mighty! We're giving you a round of applause. β
Feng Shou wiped his nose with a grin.
After thousands of miles, the number of caravans skyrocketed to 800 people, and the core was still the Eastern Group composed of Han people, Xiaoyue people, and Qiang people, who occupied more than 300 seats, each wearing two layers of leather armor, holding a strong bow that made countless people covet, and riding a murderous and majestic horse across the Western Pole.
The herdsmen of the Western Regions along the way heard the wind and came to vote, and there were even young and beautiful girls from the Western Regions who volunteered to be caravan women to give birth to children for the strong knights, just because the Western Regions prairie has always been based on force, and people of insight value this small tribe composed of skilled warriors with bows and horses, and their combat power can be comparable to that of a large tribe of 10,000 people.
A large tribe of 10,000 people has at most 3ooo control strings, and the good and bad are far less powerful than 800 elites.
Sima Tan soaked his feet in hot water, and when he saw Zhang Qian frowning, he smiled and said, "What's the matter, you're still looking at the map?" β
"If you don't look at it, you can't do it, the task assigned by the prince must be completed, and the Otsuki clan is just the beginning."
"Yes! I don't understand the intention of the prince, why do you want to arrange mythological stories for us to complete? β
Zhang Qian looked down at the first page of the atlas, which was a meaningful picture.
In the center of the painting is a giant with his hands held high, facing the east of the sunrise, and on the side of the giant are countless primitive people supporting the old and the young, heading towards the direction of the sunrise.
Praise the father chasing the sun.
From the barbarians in South Vietnam to the Huns in the north, all of them are ancient myths passed down from generation to generation.
The legend of each tribe is different, but the synopsis of the myth is roughly the same, and the legend says that there was a powerful tribe under the firmament who worshipped the sun and feared the gods, and in order to follow in the footsteps of the gods, they traveled all the way east through thousands of mountains and rivers.
"I don't understand! Our mission seems to have nothing to do with ancient mythology, so why draw a picture for us to find? β
"Perhaps, this is the important mission given to us by the prince!" Sima Tan smiled, turned his head and whispered: "I secretly went to the horse farm outside the city to take a few laps, and sure enough, there are many rare divine horses, and I heard the news from the Dawan herdsmen, there are indeed rare BMWs in Guishan City, and they sweat like blood when they run." β
Zhang Qian was shocked: "Sweaty BMW? (To be continued!)
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