In the spring of the thirty-second year of Yuande, Jiazi in March.

The sun is shining, the entire Weiyang Palace is bathed in spring light, and the birds and flowers in the imperial garden are fragrant, and it is very lively.

Liu Che raised his steps and slowly moved forward

Two nobles in armor, one on the left and one on the right, supported him.

The years are making people old, even if he has already ruled the world and ruled the entire Eight Desolations and Liuhe, his titles are also increasing.

The Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, Tiandan Yu, the Emperor of God, the son of Xianpo, and the envoy of Ahura......

But as you can imagine, the supreme gods of all the religions in the world today have been associated with him.

Even the Western Europa called him 'the illegitimate son of Zeus'.

However, neither the Haotian God Taiyi, nor the Xianpo, Ahula, and Zeus could stop him from aging.

Now, he is an old man in his sixties.

The slight trembling footsteps showed that his body had aged to a limit.

"Liu Yang......" Liu Che slowly turned his head, looked at the nobleman on his left, and stroked his sideburns: "I heard that you are doing well on the side of the poison......"

"The father and emperor have an overreputation, this is all the efforts of the ministers, and the sons and daughters are just ruling by hanging the arch, using Huang Lao's inaction technique, just sitting back and enjoying his success......" The nobleman immediately smiled respectfully.

He is Liu Che's fourth son, Liu Yang, the king of Jin from Mrs. Xia.

Liu Yang was proclaimed King of Jin 14 years earlier, and was immediately sent to the Indian subcontinent, which had just been pacified by Wei Qing's army at that time, and sat in the center of the subcontinent, and was ordered to rule the princes, princes, and feudal lords of all parts of the subcontinent.

At the same time, it is responsible for transporting the resources of the subcontinent back to the mainland.

In the past 14 years, Liu Yang has done a very good job in India!

Every year, thousands of cotton, gold, jade, grain, cloth, and various other resources were transported to the Han mainland by sea and land.

The economy of the Han dynasty continued to prosper for fourteen years, and the treasury was increasingly full, and the gold reserves of Weiyang Palace alone had reached an unprecedented 10 million gold!

"In the future, you will unite with the prince and work hard to maintain the community!" Liu Che touched his beloved son's hand and admonished: "I plan to abdicate, let the crown prince ascend the throne, and start taking over the country!" ”

"King Jin and King Qin must put aside their differences and jointly assist the prince!"

"No!" The nobleman on Liu Yang's right immediately bowed his head.

This person is the current King of Qin, Liu Che's tenth son, and also his favorite son, Liu Shen, the son of Mrs. Zhuo.

At present, the Han Dynasty, because the empire's territory is too vast, the central government cannot take care of and rule all the territory.

Therefore, the method of ruling in parallel with the capital guard system was implemented.

Within the Great Wall, it is the mainland of the thirteen states.

Outside the Great Wall, it is ruled by the Metropolitan Protectorate and the Town Guard Mansion.

The capital protection mansion is dominated by meritorious officials with different surnames and civil officials, and the town guard mansion is dominated by the Liu clan.

Twenty years ago, when Liu Che was appointed by his younger brother Liu Yan to personally take charge of Anxi City, the capital of the Western Regions, the system of guarding the palace has evolved after twenty years of strictness, and has now even become an indispensable part of the empire.

At present, there are three town guards in the Han Dynasty.

They were the poison town guards of the Jin King Liu Yang, commanding almost the entire Indian subcontinent of the imperial army, princes, and feudal armies, and coordinating and managing, allocating resources and tasks.

Liu Shen, the king of Qin, sat in Khotan, the capital of the former Kangju state, and ruled over the vast land of Central Asia.

Liu Yan, the king of Jiangdu, served as Liu Che's shadow, and personally sat in Anxi City in the Western Regions in place of him, managing and ruling the entire Western Regions and the northern Makubei region.

And the lords of the town guard mansion are all from afar to lead their feudal countries.

For example, Liu Yang, the king of Qin, whose fiefdom was in the area of Guzang Mountain in Hexi, and Liu Yan, the king of Jiangdu, was still in the native Jiangdu, and his descendants were under management.

Such a pattern is very similar to the pattern of the Zhou Dynasty, when the Zhou Gong summoned the public to divide and rule.

Therefore, the people of the time regarded the three major town guards as the three dukes, called the three dukes of the royal family, above the princes and kings, and were important ministers at the level of the country's chief and auxiliary officials.

And the lord of the town guard house is called the king of the town.

In addition to these three town kings, today's Han princes and kings are all over the Asian continent.

From Hexi to the Indian subcontinent, more than 80 Liu princes and princes are densely scattered, firmly controlling the strategic and resource points of the Asian continent.

The feudal kingdoms of hundreds of princes and princes were like stars and moons, and they colonized the kingdoms of these princes and kings.

On the territory of the empire, the industrial development is extremely rapid, and in just over thirty years, the technology tree has climbed to the age of steam.

The first train track was paved in Andong four years ago, and then railways appeared in Qilu and Luoyang.

The train track plan presided over by the Shaofu is progressing in an orderly manner, and in the next 20 years, China's railway mileage may reach thousands of kilometers, connecting major cities in the country.

"When will King Yan come back?" Liu Che suddenly asked.

"Back to my father, my son learned from Da Honglu yesterday that King Yan's fleet has arrived in the Uno Islands, and it must be a month to arrive in ......Beijing," replied Liu Shen, King of Jin.

Liu Che nodded, Liu Si, the king of Yan, was the eldest son of Mrs. Zhuo.

The prince born of the daughter of a merchant married Chen Wanniang, the daughter of Chen Huan, when he became an adult.

Because he grew up in Chen Huan's fleet since he was a child, he showed an unusual enthusiasm for the sea as an adult.

Five years ago, he took the initiative to lead a huge fleet to sail to sea, determined to complete the unfinished business of his father-in-law's longing for Chen Huan - to find the legendary Fusang continent and find the remnants of Yin Shang.

It's just that after all, the Han family has just learned how to sail the ocean, so it is still a little difficult to cross the vast ocean and go to the other side.

"King Yan returned to Beijing, immediately let him come to see me......" Liu Che said with a smile, "I haven't seen him for several years......"

"No!" The two princes nodded immediately.

"I'm tired...... You guys stand down......" Liu Che waved his hand, and with the support of the two maids, he walked to a gazebo and sat down.

This pavilion is located in front of the Imperial Garden of Weiyang Palace, just overlooking the entire Chang'an City.

This is Liu Che's favorite resting place in the past two years.

Staring at Chang'an City in front of him, Liu Che sighed twice.

The Chang'an in front of me has completely changed compared with thirty years ago!

This great empire, Shenjing, has now become the center of the world.

The city is dotted with countless luli, millions of people gather here, and in the distant suburbs of the city, chimneys rise, spitting out billowing smoke.

Wei River, Fengshui, Weishui...... All the pollutants emitted by these factories and workshops have become stinking rivers.

The smell of rot and mildew was in the air.

In the city, the capitalists who chase profits and opportunities are in the ascendant and full of ambition.

As he thought back then, a terrible monster called the bourgeoisie had been hatched.

The terrifying monster called capitalism has revealed its hideous face to the whole world.

Tens of millions of Yidi slave laborers and bonded laborers were enslaved, controlled, and exploited by them.

From the Great Wall to the Indian subcontinent and even to the European continent, these terrible beings are sown with war, famine and exploitation.

And capital knows no borders, and these people don't just exploit aliens.

Even the same clan who are the same people as Zhuxia did not let go.

From Chang'an to Linzi, tens of millions of Zhuxia subjects were driven to the workshop by them, engaged in all kinds of heavy and boring and arduous work.

Thanks to them, the Han Empire flourished, and its treasury was full of gold and jewels.

Granaries everywhere are piled with grain and copper coins.

The most extreme evil gave birth to the most prosperous empire in human history.

As Liu Che can see now, the population of the Han Empire has exceeded 150 million, and the number of household registrations has reached an unprecedented number of more than 30 million.

"I, I saw the smoke of gunpowder and the flames of war...... "Looking at the city in front of him, Liu Che whispered.

He knew that the anger of the revolution was brewing, boiling, and tumbling in private.

It is difficult for the people of Zhuxia to endure such cruel exploitation and suppression anymore.

Instead of waiting for Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to rise up, it is better to swing the butcher's knife first and cut off the claws of those greedy and brutal magnates.

"Tiger Benwei and Yu Linwei, have they already assembled?" Liu Che asked a eunuch next to him, who was his cronies in recent years.

"Your Majesty, Tiger Benwei and Yu Linwei are already on standby!"

"Where are the Flying Fox Army and the Juzhu Army?" Liu Che asked again.

"Back to Your Majesty, the information I just got that the Flying Fox Army has arrived in Luoyang, and the Juzhu Army has gotten off in Taiyuan......"

"Good!" Liu Che nodded: "Wait for my order......"

"Immediately after the Great Meeting! All major cities were to be militarized, and I issued an edict ordering all merchants with a property of more than 10 million to truthfully report their industries and capital, and make them all sign the five-hour work decree! Liu Che instructed lightly: "Then go and tell the Mo family, the Huang Lao faction, and the heads of the Confucian academies, mobilize the students, and go to the streets to rally to publicize the necessity and urgency of the 'five-hour work system'!" ”

"Send people to control the Legalist academies, and put all the Legalist giants under house arrest until the world is decided!"

This was the last thing he had to do before abdicating.

Speaking of which, it is also full of irony.

After the prosperity of capital, the most active people who resisted the erosion of capital were Mohists and Confucianism.

In order to fight against capital, Rumo even formed an alliance like never before.

However, the general trend of history is mighty and cannot be stopped by words.

Even Liu Che couldn't do anything about this monster that had formed a class and had vitality.

We can only use guns to force the capitalists to bow their heads, make concessions internally, and make concessions to the lower strata.

"No!" When the eunuch heard this, he took the order to go down.

"I can only do this step...... Liu Che sighed leisurely: "How the world will be in the future, there are latecomers to comment on ......"

But there was no one with him anymore.

Zhou Yafu died of illness in the twenty-first year of Yuande, and Yizong died the following year.

Chao Cuo died before Zhou Yafu, and he died of illness due to work while he was prime minister.

He was succeeded by Zhang Tang, who died of typhoid fever in the thirtieth year of Yuande.

He also died at his home last year.

Even Liu Che's concubines went before him one by one, and now they are just canaries around him.

As a result, Liu Che, like his father and ancestors, truly became a loner.

But this world will continue to move forward, and Liu Che can't tell what the future will look like.

But he knows that there is nothing wrong with the path he has chosen!