At the beginning of January of the second year of Jianxing, Ma Chao rushed thousands of miles to attack Xiangping, and Xiangping's guards Yang Zuo, Lunzhi, Gongsun Heng, Han Qi and others rebelled, and Gongsun Yuan's father and son were captured alive.

After that, the general of Gongsun Yuan, who was stationed outside the city, surrendered, and tens of thousands of Liaodong troops were unarmed.

There was not even a real fight, the Han cavalry was freezing and snowy in winter, and suddenly killed outside Xiangping City, and Liaodong surrendered.

There is no way, the gap in strength between the two sides is too big.

Gongsun Yuan also hoped that the imperial court would not make a big deal against him in winter, and wanted to continue to delay the time when he was sent to Luoyang as a piglet, so he was unwilling to move the nest.

But I didn't expect that because of killing Jia Fan, the following group of people were unstable, and they were finally taken down by Lunzhi, Yang Zuo and others.

By February, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao sent people to send Gongsun Yuan and his son to Luoyang, and since then Liaodong has been peaceful. Around March, the Han Dynasty sent officials to govern, and the world was completely unified.

The only thing that has not been recovered may be the Western Regions.

But the Western Regions is too far away, thousands of miles away from Chang'an. Now that the Han Dynasty has just been recovered, it is more necessary to invest time in construction and rest, rather than continuing to send troops and recklessly use force.

Therefore, the imperial court did not rush to make a move on the Western Regions, but in April of the second year of Jianxing, Liu Chan officially moved the capital to Luoyang, and sent imperial examination officials from all over the country to begin to recuperate.

At that time, it was the best time for Dahan to rest. Although it is in the middle of the second Xiaoice River, agricultural productivity has increased considerably.

What the people needed was a stable living environment, coupled with the turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty, which broke the development of the family manor system, Liu Bei and Liu Chan father and son committed to land reform, suppressed the family and the powerful, and returned the land to the people.

Under various favorable conditions, most of the more than 30 million Han people in the world became land-owning homesteaders, which greatly promoted the agricultural and economic development of the feudal dynasty.

The peak of the economic development of the feudal dynasty was the Song Dynasty, which did not inhibit land annexation, and a large number of floating population poured into the city, coupled with the vigorous development of handicrafts and maritime commerce, which made the economy extremely prosperous, which can be called the economic model of the feudal dynasties in the past dynasties.

But it did so at the expense of a large number of landless peasants, many of whom were homeless and became homeless, so that the Song Dynasty became the dynasty with the most peasant uprisings among the previous dynasties.

The economic development obtained in exchange for such a deformed way was too rough, and the consequence was that the Song Dynasty was forced to absorb a large number of displaced people into the Xiang army, which made the army low in combat effectiveness and was eventually wiped out by the Jin State.

At present, the Han Dynasty did not take such a deformed path, mainly to improve agricultural productivity, and then encourage the development of private handicraft manufacturing to promote economic prosperity.

Although the economic development in this way is far inferior to that of the Song Dynasty, this is the formal direction.

Just like in the new era of later generations, agriculture was also developed first, but hundreds of millions of people could afford to eat before reform and opening up began, and it is a reason to engage in economic development.

So by the time of Jianxing in the fifth year, after several years of vigorous development, the country's grain output increased substantially every year, and the price of grain dropped from a few thousand yuan a stone or even tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of yuan a stone in the late Han Dynasty to one or two hundred hundred yuan, and then to thirty or forty yuan a stone.

This is still the result of the imperial court's deliberate control, collecting a large amount of grain from the people, and appropriately raising a little tax, and collecting the grain into the granaries of various places, otherwise, it may fall all the way to the situation of five coins and one stone in the middle of the Han Xuan.

What is the concept of five coins and one stone of grain.

That is, more than ten grams of copper can buy 223 Han catties, 27 kilograms of grain in later generations, which is converted into 27 kilograms of rice for a few cents in later generations.

Although the productivity is different, the value of these more than ten grams of copper cannot be completely equal to a few cents in later generations, but the difference is not particularly large.

Therefore, if the price of grain is too low, it will hurt the peasants, so the imperial court will buy grain on a large scale to stabilize the grain to a certain extent.

What do you do when you have food?

Make money!

Food is plentiful and the population has grown substantially.

Shen Chen had already planned, opened a geology department, recruited a large number of geological talents, and looked for gold, silver, copper and iron mines all over the country.

One generation does one generation of things, and it is still too early to carry out the industrial revolution, and he can only pave the way at present.

Therefore, the imperial court state-owned all minerals and exploited them on a large scale.

Due to the substantial increase in steel production, steel farming tools and tools have gradually become popular, and the mining efficiency has been greatly increased.

More importantly, the Han encouraged private inventions and creations, although the high-efficiency steam engine was still not developed, but in the past few years, there are still many useful inventions and creations reported to the government, obtained patents, and promoted to the whole country.

In addition, in addition to planning the development of the country, Shen Chen also devoted himself to writing books, promoting mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc., stipulating punctuation, Arabic numerals, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, etc., and at the same time discovering mechanics, gravitation, electromagnetic force, and so on.

His famous quote is "Give me a fulcrum, and I will lift the whole universe".

In just a few years, the Han Dynasty flourished, greatly improving economically, culturally, politically, and academically, and there was a new atmosphere of the rule of Wenjing, the Zhongxing of Hanxuan, the revival of Guangwu, the rule of Mingzhang, and the longness of Yongyuan.

The only thing that can't be compared is the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

Because the prosperous era of the Han Dynasty was actually inferior to other prosperous times in terms of economy and culture, but the martial arts were too abundant, and the barbarians from all directions were obedient, and even went on an expedition to Dawan to Central Asia, and today's Han Dynasty is indeed incomparable.

It's just that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to do this because of the accumulation of thick and thin, relying on the rule of Wenjing for decades.

And there are two situations on the Han side, where you can't learn from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

First, at present, Liu Chan has just ended the chaos in just a few years, and the accumulated family background is far from being like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which has the foundation of 40 years of Wenjing's rule.

The second is that there is nothing to fight now.

At the time of the Western Han Dynasty, there were more than 50 countries at most, and it gradually became the well-known 36 countries of the Western Regions.

By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were only more than a dozen countries left.

And now Ji Han is even less, only six or seven left, and in the third year of Ji Han's elimination of Cao Wei, they have sent envoys to express their willingness to surrender.

Therefore, at present, in fact, Ji Han is like Cao Wei in history, and sent people to the Western Regions to make a long history of the Western Regions.

However, because it is too far away, it is impossible to collect taxes and levy soldiers, that is, it is nominal obedience, and in fact, each country is still in charge of its own affairs.

The Western Regions submitted on the surface, and the Xianbei, Wuhuan, and Southern Xiongnu in the northern grasslands were all subordinate. Jianzhou Nanban is now about to become a big Han people, mining all over Yunnan every day and sending it to Shuzhong.

There are also ethnic minorities such as Shanyue, Baipu, Eren, Qiangdi, Wuximan, etc., all of whom are obedient and accept the rule of the Han Dynasty, and even the leaders accept the Han officials.

However, the rule of the southwest Jianzhou still belongs to the rule of fetters, and the leaders of each tribe submit to the Han and make offerings to the Han.

The rest like Shanyue, Baipu, Eren, Qiangdi, Wuxi Man, etc., basically live in the hinterland of the Han Dynasty, such as Shanyue in the southeast hills of Yangzhou, Baipu and Eren inhabit the land of Bashu, Qiang Di in Xiliang, Wuxi Man in Jingxiang.

Because of their proximity to the territory of the Han people, their rule was also greatly influenced by the Han people, and coupled with the submission of the chieftain, they gradually merged with the Han people and became one of the ancestors of the Han people in later generations.

Therefore, in the entire Han Dynasty, there are actually few Hu rebellions.

The surrounding external forces have also been basically calmed down.

And during this time period, the southern shipping trade also developed.

After the destruction of Jiangdong, the Jiangxia Naval Division in the south was almost useless, and there was no way to participate in the Northern Expedition.

Therefore, at that time, Shen Chen ordered them to go south from Lishui, build a port in Panyu County, Nanhai County, and establish the Han Naval Division.

Even farther afield, such as Mayi, Sulu, Huluo and other places, there are already footprints of Han ships. They set up supply depots along the waterfront along the route and made a large-scale exploration of Southeast Asia.

And these operations began as early as the south of Liu Beidingding, so the exploration progress of the South China Sea Navy Division was very high, not only recovering Jiaozhi County, but also marching towards the Bay of Bengal.

By the third year of Jianxing, the Han Dynasty was internally stable, economic, trade and agriculture were developed, and the imperial court once again expanded the naval division, built ports in Qingzhou and Liaodong, called the East China Sea Army, and began to sail to the land of Sanhan and Japan.

At present, there is no other action other than the recovery of Cochin and the establishment of Han rule.

The main reason is that the Han people have no ruling base in the local area, and the local barbarians do not necessarily obey their governance, and the Han people in China are currently in a small population, and it is difficult to emigrate outward, and there is no way to establish a foundation in other places.

Therefore, not to mention colonization, it is difficult to even rule in bondage. The small population and low scientific and technological capabilities are still the weak points of the Han Dynasty, and it will take many years to develop before it can expand outward.

However, it is not without its gains to explore abroad, although it cannot expand externally, it can carry out geological surveys and commercial trade.

Geological survey is to draw maps, drawings of Dahan and all the surrounding wild lands, and there will be geologists on board to explore the land everywhere, marking those minerals that cannot be mined by the natives in various places, and planning for the future.

And Southeast Asia is rich in products, there are many indigenous people, through ceramics, silk, mulberry hemp, iron and other Han specialties, in Southeast Asia can be exchanged for a large number of gold, silver, copper and iron ore, as well as spices, wood, fur, medicinal materials, cinnabar, sulfur, saltpeter and so on, so that the Han harvest a lot.

In addition, as early as the first year of Jianxing, the gunpowder formula has been successfully perfected.

For this reason, the Han Dynasty established a firearms bureau to specialize in the manufacture and development of firearms, and in the next few years, muskets, artillery and other things came out one after another, and even skilled craftsmen made impact flintlock pistols under Shen Chen's suggestion.

The ramming flintlock pistol itself was produced in the mid-16th century A.D., a product of the non-industrial revolution. As long as the gunpowder formula is perfect, the craftsman can find a way to make it.

After several years of development, firearms were basically equipped in large quantities by the tenth year of Jianxing, that is, in 237 AD.

The birth of new weapons obviously brought revolutionary changes to the strength of the Han Dynasty, and the elite corps of the Han Dynasty in the tenth year of Jianxing was about 200,000, divided into five military regions, namely the Youzhou Military Region, the South China Sea Division, the East China Sea Division, and the Central Army and the Liangzhou Military Region.

Basically every military region has formed a part of the firearms battalion, ranging in number from thousands to 10,000 people.

With the advent of firearms, the grassland peoples who had originally surrendered to the Han Dynasty sang and danced thoroughly, and in the ninth year of Jianxing, because the winter in Monan was too cold this year, many cattle and sheep froze to death, making it difficult for many small tribes to survive.

These small tribes united, believing that through trade with the Han over the years, they had more steel weapons, saddles, stirrups, and horseshoes, and could compete with the Han Dynasty, so they went south to Koro.

As a result, not long after entering the Great Wall, in Yanmen, Shanggu and other places, they encountered the Han army sent by the Youzhou Military Region to deal with them.

This time, the Hu people went south and still had a great impact on the Han Dynasty, because the Han Dynasty had been calm for many years, and there was a scene of peace in the four seas, but suddenly moved the sword soldiers, which made Liu Chan furious, and ordered the Youzhou Military Region to directly go out of the fortress and completely annihilate these Xianbei tribes.

But it didn't take long for these tribes to surrender one after another, and then report to the imperial court, telling the imperial court that there were forces such as Kirby Neng and Budugen behind it.

Upon learning of this, the government and the opposition were shaken.

Outside the establishment of the Ji Han Dynasty, although the martial arts were not as abundant as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the surrounding Hu tribes had basically been subdued, and all of them bowed to the Han Dynasty, so they did not send troops to the outside world.

Unexpectedly, the Han Dynasty has been peaceful for several years, and its strength has become stronger and stronger, but some people have begun to die, obviously underestimating the national strength of the Han Dynasty.

For a time, troops were sent outside the plug to suppress the voices of the Xianbei people.

This time Dugen and Kirby can be dumbfounded.

Originally, they just wanted to test the strength of the imperial court, thinking that no matter how strong the Han was, it should not be so easy to parry in the face of tens of thousands of Hu people from many tribes going south.

If the Han Dynasty was strong, they pretended to be peacemakers and persuaded them, asking the Han Dynasty to give them some grain and grass to help the Xianbei people survive this winter. If the Han Dynasty was just a façade, then it would simply start to fight back, establish itself as king, and go south to start plundering.

However, the Han did not even mobilize the main force, but only sent less than 20,000 horses from a military region on the border, and easily defeated the Hu people, without even any damage, which made them terrified.

Now that the conspiracy was exposed, Kirby Neng and Budugen hurriedly went to the table to ask for forgiveness from the imperial court.

But the court's benevolence does not mean that it is weak and can be bullied, after the cabinet meeting, it was finally decided that the Youzhou Military Region would send troops, and the horse would set foot in the north, and Kirby and Budugen must pay enough price to appease the anger of the Han Dynasty.

For a while, the Mo Nanhu people were in a mess.

Many tribes did not dare to be enemies with the Han Dynasty, they were completely coerced, and countless surrendered wherever the Han soldiers and horses went, and many Xianbei and Wuhuan tribes fled all the way to the north.

One of Kirby Neng and Budugen was driven to the Great Xianbei Mountain, that is, northwest of the Great Xing'an Mountains, and the other was driven to the North Sea.

Since then, the prestige of the Great Han has shaken all directions.

Taking advantage of this great victory, the Ji Han court officially began to use troops against the Western Regions.

After having a horseshoe, horses can travel long distances, and after more than ten years of development, grain and grass are abundant, the Liangzhou military district divided more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and marched to the Western Regions, to rule the original name, into a complete rule, and control the Western Regions Corridor in their own hands.

In this way, the Silk Road, which has resumed trade in recent years due to the stability of the Han Dynasty, will also be under the control of the Han Dynasty, so that by collecting commercial taxes, it will bring a steady stream of income to the imperial court!

In the twelfth year of Jianxing, that is, in 239 AD, the Han Dynasty completely controlled the southern and western regions, and the abundance of martial virtue was more than that of the prosperous era of the Han Dynasty.