In the fourteenth year of Jian'an, the imperial court announced that the world would set up cities in Youzhou Jicheng, Xuzhou Tancheng and Jingzhou Jiangling, and the status of the chief executives of the three new cities was the same as that of Chang'an. At this point, the pattern of one capital and four capitals centered on Luoyang took shape, and the imperial court sent ministers to these big cities to serve full-time in charge of corresponding affairs.

Jicheng, located in the north of Luoyang, because of the Yanyun portal, coupled with the rapid development of the handicraft industry, and the prosperity of cultural and educational undertakings, was defined by Liu He as a science and education center and an industrial center, and the first city governor was Liu Fang, who began to follow Liu He in the early days. With Liu Hui and Liu Fang staying in Youzhou and Jicheng, plus Zhang He leading the army to defend the periphery, the northeast of the Han Dynasty can be safeguarded.

Tancheng, located in the east of Luoyang, is defined by Liu He as a maritime trade center and a financial center because of its proximity to the East China Sea and its location in the middle of the north-south sea shipping. Large and small sea ships can depart from the Yuzhoushan seaport in Xuxian County, East Haihai, and go north to Bohai Bay, and then reach Jicheng through the water connecting Bohai Bay, or go up the Yellow River to Luoyang, Beijing, or go east to the Samhan Peninsula and even the Unu Islands, and to the south can go directly to Jiaozhou along the coastline, and can also go up the Yangtze River to reach Gangneung. Excellent water transportation conditions are a necessary condition for a trade and financial center, and in the future, the gold, silver, copper coins and various coupons minted in Tancheng can be transported to various places by water.

Chang'an, located in the west of Luoyang, was originally the capital of the former Han Dynasty, with a very deep historical heritage, and Chang'an was the starting point of the overland Silk Road, and was closely connected with the countries of the Western Regions, so Liu He defined Chang'an as a religious center and a cultural center. In order to build Chang'an into a holy place for the Tianzheng Church, Liu He used a lot of brains, and even came up with a way to coronate the Pope. At that time, the coronation ceremony of the first generation of the Tenshod Sect was held in the newly completed Tianzheng Hall in Chang'an, and Liu He, who single-handedly created the Tenshod Sect, walked up the ninety-nine steps of coronation and became the irreplaceable suzerain in the hearts of believers all over the world!

Liu He knew that in the far West, the Cruciform religion had taken shape, but it had not yet developed to the point of integrating church and state. Buddhism has just developed in the Western Regions, and the Han Empire did not need a new religion to strengthen centralized rule, but the purpose and significance of the existence of Tianzheng Christianity was not to centralize rule, but to limit imperial power, limit the dominance of Confucianism, provide certain support and shelter for advanced ideas and science and technology, and ensure that the Han civilization had a strong counterattack ability in the face of foreign invasions, and at the same time spread civilization outward, so as to prepare the country for territorial expansion.

Located in Jiangling, south of Luoyang, the geographical location is special. Close to the Yangtze River and Yunmengze is the key to solving the forces of Liu Zhang in Yizhou and Sun Jian in Jiangdong. At this time, the main gathering area of the Han Empire was in the Central Plains and Youyou and Hebei Prefectures, and half of the rivers and mountains to the south of Jiangling were still wild places in the minds of the Han people, so Liu He defined Jiangling as the second Jicheng, that is, the key construction and development town of the Han Dynasty in the future, and the bridgehead leading the development of the southern states.

Luoyang, as the capital of the Han Dynasty, was naturally a veritable political center, while the other four cities directly under the imperial court had their own focus according to the division of labor. Such planning and deployment not only avoids the rapid expansion of the capital in the future, but also forms a radiation effect, so that each sub-district can drive the development of several surrounding states.

In the sixteenth year of Jian'an, the imperial court sent people to Jiangdong for the last time to persuade Sun Jian. Let Sun Jian hand over the military power in his hands and go to the capital as an official like Liu Biao, Sun Jian himself agreed to the arrangement of the imperial court, but his sons Sun Ce and Sun Quan wanted to rely on the Yangtze River to make a last stand. Liu He then gave Zhao Yun and Tai Shici orders at the same time. Let them teach the two tiger cubs of the Jiangdong Sun family a lesson.

After Zhao Yun received Liu He's order, he asked Huang Zhong and Wei Yan to defend Jiangling and Xiangyang respectively, while he himself personally led an army of 150,000 to attack Jiangdong from the direction of Jiangxia. After Tai Shi Ci received the order. A mighty naval division was sent to Wu County by sea, and with the assistance of Chen Deng, the Taishou of Wu County, they launched a fierce attack on Jianye, where Sun Jian and his son were entrenched.

Seeing that the two armies were attacking from the east and west, Sun Ce led his troops to the west to intercept Zhao Yun, and Sun Quan led the army to the east to meet Tai Shici.

Although Jiangdong has many talents, Sun Ce has the military advisor Zhou Yu by his side to give advice, and Sun Quan also has the military advisor Lu Xun by his side, but they are facing the most elite army of the Han Dynasty, and when the troops are obviously weak, they can't stop the joint attack of Zhao Yun and Tai Shici.

At this time, Zhao Yun's tent had Xu Shu, Xun You, Pang Tong and Kuai Liang and other military divisions in charge of staff officers, and Tai Shici's tent also had Jia Xu, Li Ru, Cheng Yu and Liu Ye and other military divisions to make plans.

Strategists such as Xun You, Cheng Yu and Liu Ye were originally Cao Cao's staff, but now they are all used by Liu He. The reason why they changed sides was related to an old case. It turned out that when Changyi was broken, Cao Cao drank not poisonous wine, but a special medicinal wine made by Hua Tuo that can make people sleep for several days. After the subordinates who originally belonged to Cao Cao secretly learned that Cao Cao was not dead, they didn't feel embarrassed to join Liu He psychologically, after all, Cao Cao was still there, and now that he has no real power, it is not good to delay everyone's future.

In the summer of the seventeenth year of Jian'an, Jiangdong was pacified, and Sun Jian's father and son were packed up by Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, handed over the military power in their hands, and left Jiangdong.

In the spring of the eighteenth year of Jian'an, Li Dao was seriously ill, and before he died, he mobilized the army to solve Guo Yan first, and then wrote to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to forgive him for the sins he committed during the Zhongping period. Liu He used the generalissimo's pardon power to absolve the Li family of their crimes and allowed Li Dao to be buried in the Li family's grave in Guanzhong after his death. After Li Dao's death, the imperial court appointed Zhang Ji as the pastor of Longzhou, and all the places on the right side of Longzhou returned to his heart.

In the spring of the nineteenth year of Jian'an, Xu Huang succeeded Zhang He as the governor of the Northeast Camp, and Zhang He and Zhang Liao jointly led the army to the west to attack Liangzhou, and used troops against Ma Teng and Han Sui. Ma Teng saw that the imperial army was fierce, so he asked for surrender, and Han Sui retreated westward. Zhang Liao led his army all the way to the Western Regions, and Liangzhou declared that it was completely under the central court.

In the summer of the twentieth year of Jian'an, the imperial court sent troops from Guanzhong and Nanyang to Hanzhong at the same time, and it took half a year to exterminate the rebel Yuan Shang forces in the Hanzhong area.

In the twenty-first year of Jian'an, the imperial court soldiers attacked Yizhou in three ways, among which Zhang Liao led the army to attack Yizhou Yinping Road from Longyou, Wei Yan led the army from Hanzhong to attack Yizhou Jiameng Pass, and Zhao Yun led the army from Zigui to attack Yufucheng.

In the twenty-second year of Jian'an, Zhang Liao first broke through Yinping. From there, he went south to attack Shuzhong. Subsequently, Wei Yan and Zhao Yun also successively broke through Jiameng Pass and Yufu City, and there was no barrier in Yizhou.

In the winter of the 22nd year of Jian'an, Liu Zhang led the crowd out of Chengdu to beg for surrender to the besieging three-way army, and the northern part of Yizhou finally fell under the rule of the central court.

In the twenty-third year of Jian'an, the imperial court appointed the general Zhao Yun as the governor of the southwest, and transferred Zhu Hao, the pastor of Qinzhou, to serve as the pastor of Yizhou.

In the same year, the imperial court redivided the administrative divisions of the southern states, and replanned the four prefectures of Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, and Yizhou into 11 prefectures, including Ezhou, Chuzhou, Huizhou, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guizhou, Yizhou, Yunzhou, Yizhou, and Nanzhou.

After Zhao Yun took charge of the southwest, he strictly implemented the policy of ethnic assimilation formulated by Liu He. On the one hand, it sent troops to deter the tribes entrenched in the southwestern mountainous areas by force, and on the other hand, it supported the development and growth of the pro-Han tribes, and at the same time sent a large number of missionaries to preach in the southwestern region to influence the barbarian people in the southwestern mountainous areas.

In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, the imperial court appointed Zhang Liao as the general of the expedition to the west, Sun Li and Hao Zhao as the deputies, Pang Tong and Fa Zheng as the left and right military divisions, and led 100,000 elite cavalry out of the Yumen Pass to recover the Changshi Mansion of the Western Regions.

Twenty-six years of Jian'an. The forces of Yuan Tan, who fled to the Western Regions, were broken by Zhang Liao, and the countries of the Western Regions returned to the embrace of the Han Dynasty. In the same year, the imperial court appointed Zhang Liao as the governor of the northwest and Zhang Ji as the governor of the Western Regions.

Twenty-seven years of Jian'an. Zhang Liao sent troops to Wusun and captured Chigu City within half a year, and the soldiers had reached Yile, Kangju and Dawan.

In the 28th year of Jian'an, the Samhan Peninsula was completely calmed. The Imperial Court established Gwangju here. In the same year, the Fuyu Kingdom was incorporated into the Han Dynasty, and the Rulou and Wofu tribes east of Fuyu were also incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Thirty years of Jian'an. The imperial court mobilized troops and horses to launch a "zero-COVID operation" from the three directions of Liangzhou, Qinzhou, Ningzhou, Youzhou, Liaozhou, and Changzhou, targeting the remaining nomads in the north.

The operation took three years, and after hundreds of thousands of soldiers' hard fighting, the Han Empire wiped out all the nomads in the northern steppes in one fell swoop. The remnants of the nomadic peoples, such as Ding Ling, Jiankun, Xianbei, Xiongnu, etc., were either captured and migrated to the south, or died in this large-scale operation.

After the northern grasslands were cleaned up, Liu He implemented a "border sealing law" in the Han Dynasty, selecting Han children from the northern armies and Youzhou, Liaozhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, and Liangzhou to settle in the northern grasslands, giving them a vast area of grasslands as private property, and encouraging civilians to go to the north to engage in animal husbandry.

Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Tai Shici and other generals took the lead in responding to Liu He's call and sent their children to the vast prairie in the north, encouraging and supporting them to take root in the north, and from then on they will always stay in the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty, preventing foreign nationalities from coming to occupy this vast grassland.

In the thirty-first year of Jian'an, the Han sailors landed on the Japanese slave islands, and the descendants of Gongsun Zan announced their submission, and then the natives of the islands were wiped out by the army, and the poor people of Xuzhou, Qingzhou and Yangzhou came across the sea one after another, and since then they have taken root and grown on the island.

In the 35th year of Jian'an, according to the statistics department of the Ministry of Household Affairs of Dahan, the population of Dahan exceeded 200 million.

In the 36th year of Jian'an, the first code of the Han Dynasty was officially promulgated after national discussion and voting, which was called the "Code of the Han Dynasty", which laid a solid foundation for the future Han Dynasty to move towards constitutional government.

The Great Han Code clearly stipulates the powers, obligations, and responsibilities of the imperial family, clarifies the status and role of Tianzheng Church as the state religion, and clarifies the responsibilities of cabinet officials headed by the prime minister to the empire and the imperial family.

In the 40th year of Jian'an, Emperor Liu Xie announced his abdication, and the first crown prince Liu Xiang ascended the throne. After Liu Xie's abdication, he entered the Tianzheng Path as an assistant to Pope Liu He. After Liu Xiang ascended the throne, he changed the name of the year to Jian'an to Cheng'an.

In the fifteenth year of Cheng'an, Liu Xie died of illness, Pope Liu He then announced his abdication, and Emperor Liu Xiang announced Chan concession, and Liu Xing, the fourth son of Liu Xie, took over the throne, and Liu Xiang replaced Liu He as the second pope of Tianzheng Church.

In the 20th year of Cheng'an, the population of the Han Dynasty exceeded 500 million, and the territory had expanded to the vicinity of the Mediterranean.

In the 25th year of Cheng'an, Liu He, who was already 94 years old, met in the Tianzheng Hall with the heroes who had returned from a two-year voyage around the North American continent on an open-sea exploration ship.

In the twenty-ninth year of Cheng'an, the ninety-nine-year-old Liu He died without illness in Chang'an, and more than 200 million believers of the Tianzheng Church blessed him in various places, although everyone was very reluctant to return to this saint, but everyone remembered his instructions and last words before his death, no one cried bitterly, and everyone smiled and recalled the great achievements of Liu He's life in the Tianzheng Hall in various places.

After Liu He's death, Pope Liu Xiang and Emperor Liu Xing jointly honored Liu Yu, Liu He, and Liu Xie as the three emperors of the Han Dynasty, among which Liu Yu was honored as Emperor Ren, Liu He was honored as the Holy Emperor, and Liu Xie was honored as the Ming Emperor.

In the countless years that followed, although the Han Empire experienced many internal confrontations and external attacks, because of the existence of the Heavenly Righteous Way and because of the call of the imperial family, the Han Empire never divided, and was always able to carry out regime changes and changes smoothly. After a thousand years, the Han Empire has become a super empire with a population of more than three billion on the blue planet, covering more than seventy percent of the land territory.

If it weren't for the fact that the Holy Emperor Liu He once left a testament asking future generations not to completely unify the Blue Planet and ensure the diversity of human genes and civilizations, some of the remaining small countries would have been incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty......

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