The detailed rules of the commercial tax were quickly implemented, and because the caliber was unified in advance, there was not much opposition.

But in terms of details, there will still be many different voices, and the court has been noisy for a while, and it is not easy to calm down.

Immediately afterwards, the imperial court made the new tax law public and told the world.

In order to cooperate with the upcoming Hu merchants, Liu Zhi decided to open a special trade zone along the road.

Jingshi Middle School also designated the East Market and the newly built Lixiang Market as trading areas.

All the way to the west, trading areas have also been opened in the ancient capital of Chang'an, Fufeng County, Jiuquan, Shanshan, Qiuzi, Cheshi, Wusun Chigu, Dayueshi and Dawan.

The bazaar is managed by a special person who is responsible for collecting taxes and maintaining order, as well as settling trade disputes.

These preparations must be completed before the arrival of the trade tide, so as not to be caught off guard and rushed when the time comes.

So busy until the end of the year, and it is a routine year-end summary, the second year of Xiyuan is a prosperous and prosperous year for the Han Dynasty.

Everything seems to be full of hope and is developing on the good side, and Liu Zhi is also high-spirited, intending to make a big show and bring the country into prosperity.

In the blink of an eye, in the third year of the Xiyuan Dynasty, the imperial court system was stable, and the spring ploughing was also carried out step by step, during which the palace built a biogas digester and had bright biogas lamps.

Although it is still not as convenient as electric light, it is simply a earth-shaking change compared to backward ancient times.

For a time, the princes and nobles rushed to follow suit, and every household built a biogas digester, and the alleys and castles were also guided by the imperial court to build biogas in a unified manner.

In the city, due to the constraints of conditions, several families build a biogas digester, and the gas capacity is only enough to light the lamp, and there is no excess biogas to use for cooking.

Even so, people still flock to it, you must know that candles were not cheap at that time, and ordinary people often preferred to touch the dark in order to save.

Now suddenly there is a biogas lamp that does not cost money, and the size can be adjusted at will, so that the woman can do some needlework at night and will not take up the time of working during the day.

The happiest thing is that the poor family reads, and suddenly has a lot of time to read and write, and there is no need to delay earning money during the day, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

With the free lighting, the nightlife of ordinary people in Beijing has also begun to become colorful.

After a busy day, in the evening, the family sits down to chat, eat, and enhance the relationship under the lamp.

When you go out for a walk, you have wind lanterns made of clay pots, and you don't have to worry about the black lights falling to your head.

In less than half a year, the entire Jingshi was brightly lit and quickly spread to other states.

In the whole first half of the year, the most fashionable and talked about thing of the Han people was nothing more than this.

On the way, I no longer asked if I had eaten, and I was no longer embarrassed to say that the weather was so good, but asked each other with excitement on my face:

"Is your digester starting to gas?"

In contrast, due to the abundance of raw materials and the sufficient gas output, rural families have even begun to use it for cooking.

Selling the saved firewood to the people in the city is another income, so why not do it.

The human potential is limitless, and many country estates and cattle and horse farms have built large biogas digesters, which are then stored and sold in the market.

Although at the beginning of the establishment of the biogas digester, Liu Zhi set strict rules through the government, no one was allowed to store biogas without permission, let alone sell it, and violators would be prosecuted.

After all, the gas storage tank at this time is not up to standard, which can easily cause leakage accidents, such as biogas poisoning and explosion.

He also made these harms clear, and let officials at all levels publicize them at all levels, but unfortunately, many people did not listen to them at all.

Especially in the face of huge interests, they will be even more reckless.

Many people even do not pay attention to avoid open flames when dealing with biogas residues, resulting in frequent safety accidents in a short period of time.

Liu Zhi was so angry that he was a little uncertain about building a biogas digester, and now in this situation, it is obvious that the safety awareness of the Han people has not kept up.

After ordering the local government to investigate and deal with a number of cases, they reformulated the safety rules and ordered them to strictly abide by them, otherwise they would be punished very harshly.

Several accidents were also very tragic, so that everyone gradually put away their contempt and became cautious, as long as they formed a habit in the future, their safety awareness will naturally improve.

Seeing that it was summer, although the wind and rain were smooth, Liu Zhi gradually became a little restless, pinching his fingers and calculating that Cheng'en Gong Deng Yan was ordered to send an envoy, and it was already a year.

Over the past year, Liu Zhi has been worried about their safety all the time, although Deng Meng has not said it explicitly, he often shows melancholy eyes.

Only the eldest princess of Yang'an is innocent, but often envies her uncle, thinking that he can see many strange things.

At this time, the means of transportation were poor, and there was no way to know the situation outside, even as an emperor, there was nothing to do.

I can only inform the border to pay more attention to the situation, and send people to Tianzhu and Persia to inquire about the situation and answer them.

In the past six months, Tianzhu, Persia and Kangju, the three countries adjacent to the Han Dynasty, have begun to establish frequent trade relations.

Even through their transit, they began to have a relationship with the slightly farther Sabbatical Empire, which, according to the experience of the previous Banchao era, was very belligerent and had repeatedly attempted to occupy the Silk Road.

At that time, the king of the Anxi Empire hoped that the caravans of the Great Han would not go forward, but would trade with countries such as Daqin farther away through him, so as to earn high profits.

For this reason, Gan Ying, the messenger of the Great Han, had a fierce conflict with him, but unfortunately he couldn't do anything on other people's territory.

Therefore, at that time, the caravan of the Han Dynasty only reached Tiaozhi at the farthest and could not move forward, and this was what Liu Zhi was most worried about.

The territory of the Assimab Empire, which included present-day Iran, eastern Iraq, and southern Turkmenistan, was once a province of the ancient Persian Empire, which later split off and became independent in the third century BC.

With the expansion of the ancient Roman Empire to the east, coupled with the conflict of interests in the silk trade, the contradiction between the Roman Empire and the Sabbatarian state became increasingly prominent.

In 65 BC, the ambitious Roman Empire conquered Armenia, annexed the Seleucid kingdom the following year, and had its first conflict with the Sabbats.

In 56 BC, the former triumvirate of the Roman Empire, Caesar, Pompey and Crassus, concluded a new treaty to divide the Roman Empire, and from then on began an expansion plan for the rapid conquest of Sabbath, and indeed the conquest of the entire East.

In 53 BC, the Roman legions led by Crassus engaged the army of Sabbatio, as a result of which the Roman legions were completely destroyed, Crassus was killed, and the Roman legions were completely annihilated by 20,000 men and captured by 10,000.

By 42 BC, the post-Roman triumvirate Octavian, Lepida and Antony had redivided their spheres of influence.

Antony, who had control over the situation in the Hellenistic regions of the East, once again provoked a war with the Sabbations, the result of which was a crushing defeat for the Sabbates.

In 36 B.C., Antony gathered an army of 100,000 men in Syria and penetrated deep into the valley of the two rivers until he was at rest, only to lose more than 40,000 men and withdraw in disarray.

By 34 B.C., Antony had again sent an expedition to rest in peace, but was turned back with his army due to the critical situation in Italy.

The army of Sabbath invaded Armenia, and the war between the two sides ended in the victory of Sabbat.

From 30 BC onwards, Rome and the Sabbath coexisted peacefully, which remained for many years.

By 116 A.D., the Roman army had invaded Sabbath, once capturing the winter capital of Ctesiphon and Seleucid, reaching the Persian Gulf.

However, the commercial relations between Rome and China were not interrupted by the war between the Roman Empire and the rest of the country.

The Sabbatians still controlled the western section of the Silk Road, reaping huge profits from the silk trade, much to the chagrin of the Romans.

Before Deng Shi sent it, Liu Zhi gave him a detailed description of this situation.

Of course, he also included a lot of geographical knowledge from later generations.

For example, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han people believed that the sea was behind the branch and could not be crossed, so they could only look at the ocean and sigh in addition to establishing a transit relationship with Anxi.

And now, Liu Zhi's information clearly told him that he could spare the Rest Empire and reach Great Qin.

I don't know if Deng Yan can successfully reach ancient Rome, or be trapped by the Rest Empire.

It seems that it is still necessary to accelerate the development of the Maritime Silk Road, and it will not be subject to any country at all, and it can directly reach any place along the coast.

Now, with the strength of the whole country, the three building ships in Guangzhou Port have been almost built, which can be said to integrate the most advanced navigation technology at that time.

After the typhoon season has passed, you can go to Southeast Asia and other places to explore the way, and when you have a firm foothold there, you can use this as a base to extend and explore outside.

The summer has passed, and seeing that it is the Mid-Autumn Festival again, the two beauties who are pregnant in the palace have given birth to a son and a daughter respectively, adding two more newcomers to the royal family.

Liu Zhi is very happy, he now has two sons and three daughters, completely breaking the spell of the late Han Dynasty, and there is no need to worry about having no heirs.

The little prince was named Liu Zhen, and the princess was named Liu Ying, but this time there was no reward title, according to convention, only the princess with a more noble status would be promoted to the title when she was born.

These two harem beauties are not in a high position, one is Su Jieyu and the other is Wu Chongrong, and now that they have given birth, they have not been able to reach the sky in one step, but they have only been promoted to the first level.

This Mid-Autumn Festival has so many new people, and the palace is also full of joy.

However, it wasn't until after Chongyang that there was still no news from the mission, and Liu Zhi's mood began to become heavy, and he didn't even make a big deal about his birthday, but just ate a little casually in Yong'an Palace and perfunctory it.

Seeing that winter was approaching, it would be troublesome for the mission not to return from the west, and through Kangju they learned that the rest of the mission seemed to be deliberately concealing its whereabouts.

Hearing the news, Liu Zhi's mood was very bad, a small resting country, he wouldn't really think that he could contain the footsteps of the big man, right?

He had no intention of invading other countries, but if someone deliberately caused trouble without knowing what to do, he would never be afraid.

The time sequence has entered the early winter, and the weather is getting colder and colder day by day, just when Liu Zhi thought that the mission would not come back this year, but good news came back from Yongchang County.

After making trouble for a long time, Deng Yan chose to come back from the southern line, so that he didn't have to worry about the cold weather and couldn't walk.

And it also opened up two roads at one time, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

It's just that he believes that he can repair the blocked roads in Yizhou in a year and a half.

Liu Zhi, who was overjoyed, immediately instructed officials at all levels in Yizhou to escort the mission, and finally returned to Luoyang, the capital of Beijing, before the Chinese New Year.

That day was the twenty-first day of the lunar month, and Liu Zhi was so happy that he didn't sleep all night the night on the first night, because he heard that Deng Yan had also brought back envoys from various countries along the way, as well as a group of merchants who couldn't wait.

On the same day, Liu Zhiqin led hundreds of civil and military officials to greet him outside the southern city, and also kept his promise to bring Liu Hua, the eldest princess of Yang'an, and Deng Meng, the queen of Yang'an.

The weather that day was also good, there was no snow on the road, and the sky was clear.

In the anticipation of countless people, a huge team of horses galloped in, with the joy of not returning home for a long time.

Deng Yan had already received the news that Liu Zhi would personally greet him at the gate of the city, so he took the people and drove lightly, and ran all the way to the front.

The horse galloped until it was more than ten steps away from Liu Zhi, and then it suddenly stopped, and the group rolled into the saddle and dismounted.

Looking at Deng Yan who strode over, Liu Zhi was almost unrecognizable.

In a year and a half, he has changed a lot, his skin is dark and rough, his face is scruffy, and his body is much stronger than before.

But a pair of eyes are brighter than ever, containing wisdom that has gone through the world.

"Chen Deng Yan paid a visit to His Majesty, fortunately he did not disgrace his mission!"

Deng Yan presented the festival in his hand with both hands, after rain, snow, wind and frost, even this festival has obviously turned gray and gray.

It also shows how difficult it is for them to make this journey.

"Okay, what a Cheng Engong, it really impresses me, not only does it live up to its mission, it is simply doubled, hahaha......"

Liu Zhi was overjoyed, helped him up with his own hands, and patted him on the shoulder vigorously, feeling very comfortable.

The two men got into the carriage hand in hand, and slowly drove down the long street, and countless citizens along the way cheered.

"Hooray! Long live, long live the Great Han! ”

They were followed by a long procession of missions, as well as representatives of caravans from various countries, who marveled at the incomparable prosperity of Kyoto in Dahan.

It was more powerful than they had imagined, and the size of the city turned them on its head, like a mythical kingdom of heaven.

The people of Dahan sang and danced, welcoming the returning heroes and guests from afar.

And Deng Yan also experienced the most glorious moment of his life.

Liu Zhi returned to the Chongde Hall with him, and held a solemn reception ceremony there.

Envoys from dozens of countries, large and small, presented their credentials to Liu Zhi and presented the most noble gifts to express their respect for the Han Dynasty.

At the same time, it also shows their strong desire to trade with the Han Dynasty.

The most eye-catching of them are the envoys of the Roman Empire and the envoys of the Rest Empire.

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