"Your Majesty, the Metropolitan Governor Huo Guang levied a tariff of ten taxes and one in Yumen Pass and Yangguan, which was resisted by merchants at first, and has now been accepted by merchants." In the imperial garden of Weiyang Palace, Sang Hongyang stood bent and was reporting the news of Huo Guang's tariff collection to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is holding the little prince Liu Ji at the moment, Liu Ji is less than three years old this year, it is the cutest time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is also quite fond of this little son, and he has to hug him every once in a while and play with him for a while.

"Madame, take the emperor down." Emperor Wu of Han turned his head and said to the 'Lady Li' behind him.

Mrs. Li gave a salute, then hugged Liu Ji and left the garden surrounded by maids.

"Ten taxes are so high? Only two customs duties a year is a lot of income, right? After Li Meiren and Liu Ji left, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty continued to talk to Sang Hongyang.

Yichen estimates that in only one year, he will be able to recover the investment in the construction of the pass. After that, it can contribute no less than 10,000 gold to Hexi's finances every year. Sang Hongyang already had a draft in his heart, and he was also handy about the question of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Paying attention to Huo Guang, Sang Hongyang is more concerned than anyone else, it can be said that Huo Guang's every move Sang Hongyang will analyze for a long time.

"So much? The two passes are almost as big as a few counties. Our Metropolitan Governor has a way of making money!" Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't know whether to praise or say with a taste in his heart.

Sang Hongyang felt the change in Emperor Wu of Han's mood, and then lowered his head slightly and said: "Actually, this is also a good thing for the entire Han Dynasty, in order to offset the high tariffs, those merchants can only sell the goods of the Western Regions to the farther counties of the Han Dynasty, and then sell more Han goods to the Western Regions." In this way, it also drove the commercial development of the entire Han Dynasty. ”

"Oh, in that case, let him go!" Emperor Wu of Han nodded and said, on the one hand, he really relied on Huo Guang, and on the other hand, as an emperor, he had to be on guard.

"Oh no, Your Majesty, Mrs. Li fainted!" Just when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Sang Hongyang were talking about state affairs, an attendant hurriedly came and told Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty a bad news in a panic.

"What's going on? Wasn't it okay just now? Emperor Wu of Han was a little unconvinced, Mrs. Li had hugged the prince in front of him just now, but he didn't believe that the chamberlain dared to talk nonsense about these things. So he hurriedly got up and walked towards Mrs. Li's palace.

"The minister retired." Sang Hongyang watched Emperor Wu of Han leave with great interest, and then hurriedly shouted.

Mrs. Li fell ill, she was really sick. Shaofu's imperial physician order was helpless, this illness came suddenly, and after a few days, he died, leaving only his young son and the heartbroken generation of male lord Emperor Wu of Han.

Liu Che really loved Mrs. Li, and after her death, he became crazy about it every day, and finally ordered the painter to draw a portrait of Mrs. Li and hang it in Ganquan Palace, silently in front of the scroll all day long.

When Huo Guang, who was far away in Hexi, got the news of Mrs. Li's death, it was already half a moon later, and this night Huo Guang stood alone by the lake in the backyard of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, watching the crescent moon spring shaped like a half moon reflecting a full moon.

"The teacher seems to be in a bad mood tonight, but what's upset?" Just when Huo Guang was deep in thought about the moon, Zhao Yinhua walked lightly behind Huo Guang and put on a cloak for him.

"Today's people don't see the ancient times and months, this month once looked like the ancients, if the people and ancients of today are teachers, they just suddenly feel that their lives are just a handful of loess for decades, and some of what they do is worth it?" Huo Guang was still very uncomfortable after learning the news that Mrs. Li, the real Huo Xian, had passed away. This woman, who should have lived a dull life, completely changed her original fate because of her own relationship and because of her own arrangement, Huo Guang didn't know if Huo Xian hated himself in his heart? Or has she been happy in the palace for the past few years?

"What the teacher said is still so incomprehensible, but listening to it and thinking about it is endless. The students were also confused and confused, and even felt helpless for a while. But then I went to the teacher's place, and the students found that there are still many meaningful things to do in life, such as following Wan Guanhou to the three oases, watching the river networks being transformed, and turning the barren land into fertile fields, looking at the satisfied smiles on the faces of those people, at that moment, the students are also looking forward to the future, the day when the students want to see Hexi become the south of the Yangtze River, and the day when they see the teacher return to Chang'an under the banner of the Western Regions." Zhao Yinhua also looked at the bright moon in the crescent moon spring, and said with some melancholy and some expectation.

Almost all the high-level leaders in Hexi knew in their hearts that it was impossible for Huo Guang to be trapped in Hexi for the rest of his life, and even the conquest of the Western Regions was not his end, he started in Chang'an and would eventually return to Chang'an. It's just that the day Huo Guang returns to Chang'an again, it will be an earth-shattering change, as for how the great change is, that is Huo Guang's choice and choice, all they have to do is to follow!

"It seems that you have indeed grown up" Huo Guang looked at Zhao Yinhua with some surprise, although the two were called master and apprentice, and they had known each other for several years, but it was the first time that they had exchanged heart-to-heart words like this.

"Hey! I'm seventeen this year, okay? It's long since I grew up! Zhao Yinhua stared at Huo Guang angrily and said, the painting style just now suddenly changed, and the two of them returned to the appearance of loving to lift the bar.

"Seventeen? It's not small, you and Du Yannian have been quite close recently, and he can't hide his intentions from other people's eyes, if you want, the teacher can be a matchmaker for you! Huo Guang stared at Zhao Yinhua and said a little teasingly.

Now for this girl who loves to raise the bar with herself, Huo Guang also likes it quite a lot, at least in Zhao Yinhua, Huo Guang sees vitality and liveliness, and it is also a different scenery in this dull Hexi. And Zhao Yinhua's eccentric personality is also very popular among the high-level people in Hexi, and everyone takes care of her as a junior, except for Du Yannian.

Zhao Yinhua's face flushed, but he still pretended to be brave and raised his head to look at Huo Guang and said, "Doesn't the teacher often say the word fate?" Then let it all be fate, if there is a day, the teacher is my only elder, I don't know if he will prepare a dowry for me? ”

"Dowry? It's nature! Huo Guang was also stunned, but this Zhao Yinhua's temperament was jumpy, so Huo Guang didn't react for a while. But after thinking about it carefully, Zhao Yinhua is now alone, and only Huo Guang, a teacher, can attend as an elder.

"That's a foregone conclusion! I don't think the dowry prepared by our dignified Governor of the Western Regions should be too bad, right? Zhao Yinhua stared at Huo Guang with both eyes, revealing a sly gaze.

"Naturally, a word is a certainty!" Huo Guang nodded solemnly and said, it didn't seem like a joke at all, and then he raised his palm, Zhao Yinhua also stretched out his palm when he saw this, and swore with Huo Guang.

"Hee-hee" Zhao Yinhua glanced at Huo Guang, then turned around and left. She was the only one in the entire Metropolitan Governor's Mansion who was neither big nor small in front of Huo Guang, and Huo Guang didn't care about this, he still turned around and looked at the lake calmly.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gradually came out of the grief of Mrs. Li's death, and the Han Dynasty was still thriving, as if this peaceful and prosperous era would continue like this. Prices in the country are stable, the cultivators have their own fields, and the culture has also seen unprecedented prosperity, and the surrounding aliens are dormant, and there are no more wars.

This came to the winter of the second year of Yuanfeng, when a caravan returning from the distant Tiaozhi and Dawan crossed the Yangguan, the main hall of the Dadu Governor's Mansion was already full of high-rise people in Hexi.

In addition to Huo Guang, Dongfang Shuo and others, even the captains who guarded various places, together with the four county guards, all appeared in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. This is the first time that Huo Guang has summoned all his high-level officials together since he took office as the governor of the capital for more than a year.

In winter, it has snowed heavily in Dunhuang, when the desert encounters heavy snow, it is a different kind of scenery, desolate with bleakness, as if there is no end to heaven and earth.

A stove had already been lit in the main hall of the Grand Governor's Palace, and even though it was snowing heavily, the people inside still didn't feel the slightest chill.

"King Dawan has rejected our alliance, and several of the caravan members have been killed" Zhao Yinhua has already summarized the information of the westbound caravan this time, and is reporting to Huo Guang on behalf of the caravan.

"It seems that our strategy of long-distance friendship and close attack will not work, since we kill my envoy, sooner or later, this Dawan will not be able to stay." Huo Guang frowned and said, in his impression, Dawan has always admired the Han Dynasty, and he thought that he could easily form an alliance with Dawan and then attack Wusun, but now it seems that the truth is really 108,000 miles away from the ideal.

"Dawan's outbred strategy really doesn't work, but our people still have other gains, such as letting us know that Wusun is not a monolith." Zhao Yinhua raised the letterhead in his hand, and then looked at the people in the hall with a smile on his face and said, and finally his eyes fell on Huo Guang's face.

"Oh? It seems that it should be good news, don't sell it! Huo Guang also had a smile on his face, and looked at Zhao Yinhua and said like an elder to a junior. Huo Guang was also funny in his heart, at this time, Zhao Yinhua couldn't forget her funny character.

Huo Guang's words, the atmosphere in the hall was also a lot more relaxed, and the faces of the high-level people in Hexi also showed a relaxed look.

"The crown prince set up by Wusun Kunmo Hunting Jiaomi died of illness two years ago, and Hunting Jiaomi did not change his second son Xutuomi as the crown prince, but set up the eldest grandson Junxu as Cen Chen, that is, the imperial grandson of Wusun, and the heir of Kunmo in the future. That Xutuo Mi is not an idle person, his status is equivalent to the second phase of Wusun, just like the right virtuous king of the Huns, and now he has tens of thousands of troops and has become a force of his own. So far, it's just that the father and son haven't torn the last skin, but Wusun has actually split internally. Zhao Yinhua said the sorted out news concisely again in one breath.

"Wanguan Hou, together with the Department of Foreign Affairs, immediately start to contact this Xutuomi, as long as he submits to the Dadu Governor's Mansion and accepts the dispatch of the Dadu Governor's Mansion in the future, he will be Kunmo in the land of Wusun in the future. At the same time, he told him that the Pontur only intended to accept the surrender of one Western Regions country, and that the other countries would be annexed, so that he could take advantage of this only opportunity. Huo Guang gave the order without much thought.

"Subordinates receive orders." Lu Shu gave up his orders, and if he wanted to negotiate the entire Hexi, I am afraid he was also the first person to deserve it.

"What about the news?" Huo Guang continued to look at Zhao Yinhua, the main purpose of this caravan was Dawan, and the second was to go farther.

"Our previous information was wrong, and the Tiaozhi is not the name of that country at all, this Tiaozhi country is actually only equivalent to a vassal country, where there is a huge empire with a population of nearly 10 million and no less than 600,000 soldiers, called Anxi!" Zhao Yinhua also said with a serious face.

"Tell me carefully!" Huo Guang leaned forward slightly, and said with some eagerness.

Zhao Yinhua glanced at the letterhead in his hand, seemed to organize his thoughts, and continued: "The system of this country is similar to the previous Shang and Zhou periods. There were many states under the state, and there were only two classes: the nobility and the slaves. Their nobility was also hereditary, and the symbol of nobility was not only fiefdoms, but also war armor: their cavalry armor had a helmet that completely covered their heads and cheeks, and they wore chain mail that protected their entire body, and even their horses wore iron armor with only their eyes exposed. There were between two and thirty thousand such ironclad cavalry, and each of the nobles represented by the ironclad cavalry also had three or four unarmored light cavalry servants, as well as a varying number of archers on foot. ”

Zhao Yinhua's words fell, and the hall was shocked, as if the temperature in the hall had dropped to an extremely low level. The resting aristocratic cavalry in Zhao Yinhua's mouth has not appeared in the Han Dynasty, and the cavalry with this kind of equipment has also been conceived and called it heavy armored cavalry. However, whether the cavalry is wearing the heavy iron armor, or the horses are wearing the iron armor, in addition to the amazing defensive power, their speed and agility are reduced to extremely low, and in this case, the war horse is difficult to withstand high-intensity combat, even if it is put into the battlefield, it may fall down after a round of sprints. Not only did the heavy iron armor overwhelm the horses, but even the hooves of the horses could easily break, and these limitations made it only a hypothesis after all.

"It's impossible, isn't it twenty or thirty thousand such ironclad cavalry? There are also a large army of servants, how can their horses bear this load? There is such an army, not to mention the Western Regions, the whole world has already been conquered" Zhao Ponu has a deep understanding of cavalry combat, when he heard that there was such an army in this world, he was shocked and disbelievable, and even he had begun to deny this existence in his heart.

"If the news is correct, all of this is true, and the reason why we have never heard of this legion is because they are now fighting on the western front of their empire, fighting the empire called Great Qin! This is something that our people brought back from Anxi, and it is said to be a part of their ironclad cavalry," Zhao Yinhua said with a regretful expression, and then took out a palm-sized, semicircular iron ring from his arms.

"Huh? Horseshoe" When everyone looked curiously at the strange iron ring in Zhao Yinhua's hand, Huo Guang had already suddenly stood up from the main seat, and subconsciously exclaimed! ()

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