This year, Liu Bei of Western Shu and Sun Jian of Eastern Wu were also developing in full force.

After seeing the Celestial Empire expand its army again, they also continued to carry out conscription work in order to protect themselves.

This is tantamount to a military competition, but the background of these two countries is too different, and it is far from comparable to the development speed of the Celestial Empire. Even Zhang Chao once thought that if they continued to compete like this for a few years, maybe they would have problems without attacking themselves.

The year passed quickly, and the year came to 209 A.D. At the beginning of this year, Zhang Chao summoned the ministers and formulated a development plan for the new year, and then his idea was that this year was still to develop the economy and the military, and he did not plan to start with anyone.

This is Zhang Chao's advantage, because he is too strong, only he goes to trouble others, and Xishu and Dongwu will definitely not take the initiative to provoke him. Therefore, he wants to take advantage of this time to develop well for two years, so that he can ensure that in the case of a double-front attack, he will win Xishu and Dongwu in one fell swoop, and unify the whole country first.

But the plan did not change quickly, and the sudden occurrence of an incident changed Zhang Chao's mind and made his military focus begin to shift.

Jinyang City.

As the economic, cultural, political, and military center of the country now, it is obvious that it cannot be described as luxurious, and the crowded streets are enough to show the prosperity of this place.

More importantly, on the whole street, there are all kinds of people, some wearing Han costumes, some wearing minority costumes, among which there are some Xianbei, Xiongnu, Qianghu alien races.

Although the current Celestial Empire has not completely subdued them, and even in some areas, the two sides are still in a state of hostility, there are still many alien races who envy the prosperity of the Celestial Empire, and even more so have moved here with their families and families, preparing to live here in the future.

For those who are interested in the Heavenly Empire, Zhang Chao does not refuse to come, but there is one thing, he does not allow these alien races to live in groups, but to be scattered among the people of the Celestial Empire, so that he is not afraid of what kind of climate the other party will become.

At the same time, for these alien races who are interested in the Celestial Empire, Zhang Chao also gave some preferential policies, such as a certain share of taxes can be exempted for business, and a certain amount of land can be shared for farming.

Under such a policy, every day in the border lands, foreign races came to take refuge, strengthening the prosperity and strength of the Celestial Empire.

For these people, in Zhang Chao's words, they are the fruits of economic warfare.

In this way, in Jinyang City, it is not so strange to see people of different races.

Of course, a foreign race is a foreign race, and although some policies are tilted, it is still far inferior to the atomic people of the Celestial Empire. For example, the lives and property of the people of the real Celestial Empire are protected by the army of the Celestial Empire, but not aliens. Unless they voluntarily apply to join the Han Dynasty, and they also need to make a certain amount of merit before they can be officially promoted to the subjects of the Celestial Empire.

But even so, there are still many people of different races who flock to it. For them, there are too many achievements in the war, and now that they finally have a place where they can live in a stable place, they naturally yearn for and cherish it very much.

Even if they can't be recognized by the Celestial Empire for the time being, most of them firmly believe that as long as they behave well and pay taxes on time, they may still become real citizens of the Celestial Empire.

And one of the so-called good performances is to never cause trouble. For this reason, the laws of the Celestial Empire stipulate that after entering Jinyang City, no matter whether it is the people of the Celestial Empire or other countries, they are not allowed to carry any iron weapons, and once discovered, they will be punished for a felony.

Because of the cruel law as a flaunt, the security in Jinyang City is even better, at least on the street, there are few fights and fights. Of course, whenever there is a situation, the nearby city guards will quickly rush here and take down the perpetrators one by one.

In such a good public security environment, Jinyang City is becoming more and more prosperous, and there are many people who say that if you don't come to Jinyang City to take a look, it is equivalent to not seeing the true face of the Heavenly Empire.

It is very lively, the public security situation is so good, as a member of the royal family, the children of Emperor Zhang Chao are also very willing to take a walk on the street. After all, although the palace is large, it is only a larger cage, and there are few people in contact, so it is better to go to the street market and take a walk.

Zhang Chao does not object to this, he believes that his children should also have more contact with the real society, which will have a positive effect on their future life.

The eldest princess Zhang Jie responded to her father's call and was very willing to go to Jinyang City to walk.

As the daughter of the beautiful Zhen Mi, although Zhang Jie is only sixteen years old, she is already as beautiful as a fairy and is very beautiful.

may also know that she is too beautiful, usually when Zhang Jie goes out, she will bring two palace maids, and four iron guards will follow her around.

On this day, she went out of the palace again to the Fang City, and went straight to the Yuxiang Building.

Yuxianglou, in the name of being rich in flavors and jade, because it only sells high-end things here, and the products are the best and goodest, but they quickly became famous and became a place where some dignitaries and nobles passed by.

Zhang Jie came here today to choose a jade bracelet for her mother Li Guifei, it is her mother's birthday in these days, as a daughter, she wants to do her filial piety.

"Go faster, I'm afraid there will be no chance to choose if you go late." On the street, Zhang Jie said a little anxiously. It's just that in the face of the crowded street, she can't hurry up if she wants to.

"It's beautiful!" Dozens of miles away from Yuxiang Building, there is a welcome restaurant. At this time, in a box by the window on the second floor, a young man dressed in a very unusual way was looking from top to bottom inadvertently, and at a glance he saw Zhang Jie, who was crowded in the crowd, but still gave people the feeling of standing out from the crowd.

"Your Royal Highness, do you have a crush on her again?" Beside the young man, a middle-aged man, also dressed in cotton and satin, asked with a flattering expression.

"Well, go to Deyin, Your Highness has taken a fancy to that woman, you quickly go and bring the guards to invite her to me. By the way, you can't hurt her. His Royal Highness the young prince said with a hint of eagerness on his face at this moment.

His Royal Highness the prince's name was Cheng Leli, and he was the eldest son of the king of the Great Wan Kingdom among the Western Regions west of the Celestial Empire.

The former Dawan Kingdom, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was attacked by General Li Guangli to break through Guishan City, the capital of Dawan Kingdom, and the King of Dawan was killed. After that time, Dawan's strength was weakened a lot. But it is precisely because of that incident that the new king of Dawan Shangcheng also worked hard to develop, and finally regained the glory of Dawan Kingdom, and vigorously developed military power, making it a powerful country among the countries of the Western Regions.

This time, Cheng Leli came to the imperial capital of the Celestial Dynasty on the order of his father, just to unite. They wanted to exchange the Dawan horses in their hands for the iron weapons of the Celestial Empire, because Zhang Chun (the representative of the Zhang family trading company in the Western Regions) had taken out their weapons with them, which were so sharp that the Dawan King was envious, and he was thinking that if they equipped these weapons in their own country, their military strength would rise by more than one notch.

Cheng Leli got a scene with a broad vision, and he was naturally very happy, so he took the minister of Dawan to Deyin all the way to Jinyang City of the Celestial Empire.

According to the idea of going to Deyin, after coming to Jinyang City, the first thing to do is to meet the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty and show his intention. But the prince Cheng Leli said that he should first look at the prosperity of the Celestial Empire and do some understanding, and said that in the words of the Celestial Empire, he knows himself and his opponent.

Even if the eldest prince had an idea, as a courtier, he was naturally not good at what he was saying, so he found a restaurant and sat down here, where he could see the scenery and learn about many novelties that he could not hear.

It's just that I didn't think that not long after I sat down, Cheng Le had taken a fancy to several beautiful women one after another, and he still wanted one when he saw one, and he had already caught four of them in this morning's work. Zhang Jie, who is now being fancied, doesn't know that he is already the fifth person.

The eldest prince gave the order, and because he didn't dare to disobey, he glanced at the guards behind him, and immediately six more people walked out of the restaurant.

This is just an episode for Cheng Leli. Because the four women he had taken a fancy to before were all taken away and sent to the inn where he was temporarily staying, in his opinion, Zhang Jie was just the fifth person, that is, she would not be the first, nor would she be the last.

In front of the Xiangyu Tower, Zhang Jie finally came here under the protection of four iron guards. Then he entered the building with the two palace maids, and the four iron guards guarded the door of the building in two directions like ordinary passers-by.

Zhang Chao once had a rule that neither the emperor nor the courtiers should engage in specialization at will, so that without an order, the iron guard is just an ordinary guard, like a nursing home invited by a large family, and it is not visible.

In the Xiangyu Building, Zhang Jie was quickly invited to the inner hall after taking out the silver money on her body. In fact, she is also an old guest here, and the boss here also knows that she should have a good identity, maybe it is a young lady of the prince's minister's family.

Zhang Jie, who was invited into the inner hall, was quickly attracted by the exquisitely crafted jade bracelets in front of her, and was addicted to the selection for a while.

Not long after Zhang Jie entered the Xiangyu Building, six young men dressed in alien costumes also entered the store, and then they first looked around, and after not seeing the target Zhang Jie, one of the guards walked to the counter with a handful of silver coins in his hand.

Money can make ghosts grind, and under the opening of the silver money, Zhang Jie's whereabouts were quickly learned, and then the six men left four people in the hall, and the other two went to the inner hall.