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When Liu Che was sleeping incense, he was woken up by a eunuch.

"What's the matter?" Liu Che sat on the bed, a little unhappy.

It's no wonder you're happy!

It's such a cold weather, or in the middle of the night, it's a good time to sleep with a soft girl in your arms!

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent military situation!" The eunuch said, thinking about it, he emphasized: "It's the highest level!" ”

When Liu Che heard this, he immediately stepped out of bed, and immediately a maid held a fox fur coat that was paid tribute by the Andong Protectorate and put it on him.

The fox fur was very warm, and it was evident that it had been heated by the maid and placed three feet above the fire.

Putting on this coat, the eunuch also handed a report to Liu Che with interest.

Liu Che took a look at it and immediately ordered: "Immediately upload the prime minister, Shaofuqing and Danong to enter the palace!" ”

"No!"

"Send another order to Lantai, and immediately summon the ministers of Lantai with more than 800 stones to wait in the Xuanmu Palace!" Liu Che opened his hands and said, "Wait for me to change my clothes!" ”

After a while, Liu Che was neatly dressed under the service of the maids.

He stretched out his hand, took the sword of the Son of Heaven, lifted the ribbon, and said to the left and right: "Follow me to the Xuanshu Palace!" ”

Walking out of the dormitory, the rain outside was still dripping.

The temperature was a little low, and the cold wind was blowing, so Liu Che couldn't help but rub his hands.

"I can't think of it, I can't think of it......" Liu Che looked at the vast night and sighed.

This Han-Hungarian war, at the very beginning, was completely out of the track he had set with the court ministers.

It really proves that the changes on the battlefield are not at all predictable.

Before the war, who would have thought that the Ruolu tribe that had been guarding Ziling would be wiped out by the Huns themselves?

Who would have imagined that the main force of Yizong would occupy Ziling at almost no cost?

Since Ziling succeeded, Bai Dao naturally fell under the control of the Han family.

The road to Gaoque for the Han army has actually been opened.

But......

However, the Zhidu Department fell into the siege of the Xiongnu.

Zhidu would have to face at least twice as many enemy sieges, and supply lines would also be attacked.

The main venue of this Han-Hungarian war changed from the Yizong side to the Zhidu side.

The expected battle of Honghu Sai naturally came to an end.

Can Zhi be able to persevere?

There is no need to doubt this, as long as the supply is stable, there is food and drink, the Huns should not be able to threaten their survival.

But the crux of the matter is to maintain supplies!

Liu Che dusted his sleeves.

As soon as the cannon goes off, ten thousand taels of gold!

Although the people don't need money for conscription, they need money for military supplies!

Out of the plug to fight, pouting thousands of miles.

The Han family's treasury savings were quickly depleted like flowing water.

If it weren't for the income from the salt and iron yamen and other aspects, Liu Che's government would already be in debt at this moment.

Even so, if the military strength of the Zhidu side is strengthened, it will be used to maintain the security of the supply line.

Liu Che felt that at least another 10,000 cavalry needed to be mobilized to maintain the supply line.

Moreover, Zhidu's troops faced too many enemies, so at the very least, they had to find a way to send at least 8,000 crossbowmen up.

But the problem is that the Han family's finances are already in a tight position.

And this war, but it has just begun, conservative estimates, this round of Han-Hungarian Gaoque battle, at least a month (the most ideal state) If the war is stalemate, it is common to fight for three or five months!

"I have to find a way to get money......" Rubbing his hands, Liu Che raised his feet and stepped forward.

China's historical problem has been that the state has no money, while private individuals have money.

For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the treasury of the national government, all of them could run mice, and Emperor Chongzhen wore a dragon robe for three or four years.

But the cellars of the homes of the officials and nobles of Beijing were full of gold and silver.

In the Jin merchants of Shanxi, the amount of silver hoarding is calculated in millions of such units.

The Han family, although the income from fiscal taxes and other items, far surpassed that of the Ming Dynasty.

Even surpassed the Qin Empire!

In Liu Che's known Chinese dynasties, only the legendary Southern Song Dynasty, which was extremely prosperous in maritime trade and could make tens of millions of dollars in profits at the age of one year, could wrestle with the Han family in terms of finance and taxation.

Even so, the Han family also had an embarrassing situation in which the people were rich and the country was poor.

Like Liu Che's two old fathers-in-law, the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family, they have tens of thousands of wealth, thousands of hired workers, and countless slaves!

It's a country that can't be rich!

And the Dou family and the Bo family in the relatives are also sitting on gold and silver mountains.

Wei Qihou Dou Ying alone can feed thousands of diners, known as Xiao Mengwei!

As for Liehouli, the wealth of the Pingyang Hou family, a big dog, is so much that even Liu Che is red!

The Pingyang Hou family has been raising thousands of singers and slaves in Pingyang County for generations, and there are also thousands of horse slaves and riding slaves.

Therefore, the three generations of the old Cao family have been passed down singlely, and the health of one generation is worse than that of the next, so it is no wonder that others.

Even if it is Xiang Yu, who sings every day, his body can't hold it!

Liu Che has been thinking about these people's money.

I also got some piecemeal.

But in general, just banging and banging, never made them really bleed.

Now, the military budget is tight, and Liu Che has to hit these guys again.

"Prepare to issue ......treasury bonds," Liu Che sighed and made this decision.

Actually, there is a faster way.

That's a raid!

In China, in all dynasties, when the dynasty was strong, all the powerful bureaucrats, landlords, merchants, and merchants had to kneel down to the emperor and sing about conquest.

In front of the emperor, any rich businessman who rivals the country, and what a big landlord who is in the wilderness, can be destroyed if he turns his hand.

This is also due to China's special social and cultural environment.

The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister.

For the emperor, he was alone in the whole world.

The merchants, landlords, bureaucrats, and magnates were all his courtiers.

Let you die, you must die.

Let you live, you must live!

The monarchy rules everything, even ideas, religion, and scholarship.

The emperor of China, since ancient times, has been the unity of man and god, called the Son of Heaven, and called himself the emperor, called the king.

Words and laws follow the law, and exports become constitutional, so that the heavens, earth, stars, all things in the universe, and physical rules are all affected by the emperor's personal will.

Naturally, such a king does not need to think about what the people below think, nor do he bother to think about economic stability and sustainable development.

It's not that they don't want to think about it, it's that they don't know about it at all.

This is also where the differences between Eastern and Western cultures lie.

It is also a reflection of the completely different environments and humanistic ideas in which the Eastern and Western worlds live.

For China, a large territory, a large population, and rich land are enough to form a self-sufficient and prosperous economic circle.

So much so that even if the emperor cuts off the heads of the richest landlords and wealthy merchants in the country and confiscates all their family property, this great country will not break its muscles and bones, and may even live a more nourishing and healthier life than before.

Even if a strong king is particularly defeated, he only needs to recuperate for more than ten years, and this empire will be alive again.

In such an environment, China's rulers naturally do not take into account the opinions of other people, nor do they bother to deal with the ideas of those fat pigs.

Merchants, landlords, powerful and powerful can be slaughtered when they are caught.

Emperor Wu killed an unknown number of 2,000 stones in his life, knocked more than 300 liehou families into the abyss, and bankrupted almost all the merchants.

But it's still not a ......

In history, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty was even more ruthless!

peeled the skin and grass, and often raised big cases, killing more than 10,000 people at a time.

However, the economic and military strength of the Ming Dynasty became stronger and stronger in this major case and killing.

To be reasonable, in fact, Liu Che only needs to learn these two, raise the butcher's knife, and send the rich merchants, big landlords and magnates to hell.

It is completely able to make up all the expenses of this Han-Hungarian war.

You might even be able to make money.

However......

"I don't just want to be an Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Ming Taizu or Ming Chengzu......" Liu Che told himself in his heart, soothing that restless heart: "My ultimate goal is to sublimate and evolve the Han civilization, and embark on the road of eternal prosperity and strength!" ”

And to achieve that purpose.

In addition to the need for policy, the need for guidance, the need for resources.

It also needs to be watered with sin, fueled by the darkest, deepest, and most despicable evil, to throw millions of lives into the altar, and to use their light and heat to ignite the engine of civilization's sublimation.

This is inseparable from the help of capital and the powerful.

After all, as an emperor, as the Son of Heaven, he prides himself on ruling the world with virtue and filial piety.

You can't and you can't get your hands dirty.

How nice now!

Dirty and bad things are the work of courtiers and merchants.

He, the emperor, had no idea.

The image is glorious and majestic, and he is completely a monarch who loves the people like a son!

Liu Che knew about this, and many courtiers and businessmen also knew about it.

But the world doesn't know.

What's even better is that Liu Che knew where his bottom line was, so he used to beat the side drum again and again and kill chickens and monkeys to tell those ministers and businessmen that these things are not allowed to be touched, and if they are touched, they will die.

And these businessmen, ministers and magnates, also received this message.

So, they have adjusted their strategies accordingly.

Just like now in Yanzhao, big landlords and big businessmen have reduced rents and interest rates, and on the surface, it seems that they have discovered their conscience, or they are 'influenced by the virtue and politics of the Son of Heaven'.

But in reality, they're just transforming.

Some of them turned to capital, to industry and commerce, and some to military and colonial interest groups.

Although the steps of these changes are slow.

But it's turning every day.

This is also the reason why Liu Che did not set off a prison although he was in power.

If he kills all the people and robs all the money, who will help him do things?

Can you guarantee that the new ones will be better off than the old ones?

For Liu Che, killing people is just a means.

It's just a means to get rid of the scum who are disobedient, misbehaving, or eating and waiting to die.

Along the corridor, continuing forward, a quarter of an hour later, Liu Che entered the confines of the Xuanshu Palace.

There, the Lantai Shangshu who had been woken up and who was on duty today and the attendants were already waiting for Liu Che.

"Greetings to Your Majesty......" Shang Shu Ling Ji Di saw Liu Che coming, and immediately stepped forward and said: "The latest Han and Hungarian intelligence and military intelligence have been updated, and Your Majesty can look at it at any time!" ”

Liu Che nodded and praised: "With Qing here, I don't have to worry!" ”

This is a good point, and he has done a very good job.

All the details don't need Liu Che's orders at all, he will do it himself.

Such a minister is naturally very good to be placed in the position of Shang Shuling.

However, his shortcomings are also more obvious.

Ji Di is a gentleman, at least that's what he asks of himself.

Therefore, he has a high moral cleanliness.

Many times, his kind of moral cleanliness that makes people respect and make people laugh and cry makes Liu Che feel a little embarrassed.

So, Liu Che actually had already planned, and waited until this summer to let Ji Di go to Anton to be the patrol of the Metropolitan Protector's Mansion for a term, so that he could increase his knowledge, cultivate his sentiments, and exercise his quality.

I believe that the people of the land of Anton will teach a lot of knowledge.

Putting this idea aside, Liu Che walked to one side of the wall of the Xuanshu Hall under the guidance of Ji Di.

Here, on the first day of the new year this year, an unprecedented military map was hung.

The map is larger than the previous Han ministers' understanding of maps.

It occupies two-thirds of the wall on one side of the entire Xuanmur Hall, is twelve zhang long and three or four zhang wide.

Such a large map, in terms of rulers and descriptions, is enough to clearly show the known mountains, rivers, lakes and fortresses of the Han-Hungarian front.

A few whale oil lamps were held up in front of the map, and Liu Che took a baton, first finding Ziling, then Heyin, and finally, Taiyuan and Jinyang, Shangjun, and Beidi on the map.

"Order the light car general Guang, immediately set off from Chaonasai, command the Beidi Army to go north to Lingwu's Huhua Plug, and make a move to get out of the stopper, but don't go out of the stopper!" Liu Che simply thought for a moment before giving the order.

Li Guang has been the chief instructor of the new barracks in Chaonasai in the north for two or three years.

Well done!

In the past two years, thousands of officers and thousands of cavalry have been sent to all armies of the Han army, which can be described as remarkable achievements.

However, compared to his talent for training, his talent for leadership is a bit like that.

Moreover, Li Guang is a heavy drinker, and he often drinks without knowing himself.

Liu Che didn't dare to hand over the army to an alcoholic!

Li Guangzi also understood that he was not reused, so Liu Che heard that he was quitting drinking.

But the effect is still unknown......

Now let Li Guang lead the Chaonasai garrison to move to Huhuasai, and there is a plan to test whether he has really quit drinking.

Of course, it's more important to be strategic.

To be reasonable, in fact, Beidi County is going north, and it is closer to Gaoque and Yulin!

However, the existence of natural dangers in Qinglong Gorge made it necessary for both the Han army to go north and the Xiongnu to go south, to take the ancient Di Road, and to cross a desert that was two or three hundred miles wide and more than four hundred miles long.

This road is not easy to walk!

Especially for the Han army, even more so!

However, let Li Guang lead his troops to Huhuasai and make a posture of going back to the middle road and turning to the road.

Liu Che believed that the Xiongnu would definitely have to divide some of their forces to guard against it.

In this way, Zhidu can be relieved of a certain amount of pressure. (To be continued.) )