Chapter 1994: Building the Great Wall
In August, it was the hot weather. Emperor Zhou thought about it and got off the carriage ten miles outside Chang'an City. He held a bamboo slip in his hand. Under the protection of Han Sizhong with a military general, he walked towards Chang'an. The people along the way heard that Emperor Zhou wanted to abdicate and stopped to watch. Han Yi naturally heard the wind and did not dare to be arrogant. He hurried out of Chang'an City. In this era of underdeveloped information, spreading rumors and causing trouble could make Han Yi's three-month efforts go to vain. Han Yi had a black face and looked a little embarrassed. He secretly called Han Sizhong to be a fool, but he didn't stop Emperor Zhou.
After leaving the palace gate, Gao Lishi came to the carriage that had been prepared and said, "Please get on the carriage!"
"That's the big deal!" Han Yi jumped out these three words in anger, and then led his people to strode out of the city gate. After a while, Han Yi seemed to have thought of something, looked at Gao Lishi behind him and said, "Go! Bring Han Huang here to me!"
"No!" Gao Lishi responded immediately, and took a few eunuchs and ran over directly. In half a quarter of an hour, Gao Lishi came to Han Huang with a rattle in his hand. When Han Chen heard that Emperor Zhou came to the city gate in person, he immediately ignored him. He put down the brush in his hand and ran over closely behind Gao Lishi. Of course, it was not only Han Chen who received the news, Han Feng, Han Ning, Han Ming, Han Wu and others also came in response. Only Han Che was far away in Chenggao, so he was afraid that he would not be able to catch up with this grand event.
"Father!" Several children rushed over and bowed to Han Yi. Han Yi looked at the people, nodded for a while, stood with his hands behind his back, and looked at Han Huang on Gao Lishi's back. Han Yi reached out and took Han Huang down, patted his little head and said, "Come on! Come out with grandpa! OK!"
"Okay!" Han Huang's two small eyes smiled into a crescent shape. Han Feng and others behind him shook their heads secretly. They knew that they had no chance of being with the throne. Han Feng's helplessness, Han Ning's unwillingness and hatred, Han Ming's indifference, Han Wu remained calm, had a broad heart and a fat body, and thought it was nothing like this.
"Let's go!" Han Yi directly took Han Huang's little hand and walked out of Chang'an City. The black-armored soldiers on both sides stood on both sides and shouted angrily: "The king is on his way, and the people are kneeling down!"
The originally lively Ping'an Street was silent in an instant, and the people knelt on the ground one after another. Han Yi immediately walked forward and said, "Hurry!"
Han Yi and others walked quickly, and Han Huang ran while walking, and only then could he barely keep up with everyone's pace, which made him very funny.
After leaving the city gate, Han Yi saw King Nan of Zhou at a glance. He held the bamboo slips in both hands and bamboo slips in both hands, and walked slowly towards Han Yi's Chang'an City. The roads paved on the ground were covered with bluestones. Han Yi stepped forward and stopped and bowed, "The king's minister Han Yi pays homage to the emperor!"
"We pay homage to the Emperor!" Everyone bowed, and Han Yi and the people behind him bowed, and said with respect.
"The King of Han is very virtuous and has the example of the two emperors of Zhou, Wen and Wu. I have been chaotic for a hundred years and I am not as good as I am. I am willing to abdicate and give in to the wise. I am now giving in three words and three words. I hope the King of Han will not refuse." After the King of Zhou said that, he put down the bamboo slips, took off the king's crown, and retired the king's robe, and knelt on the ground. When the people around him heard that Han Yi wanted to be the emperor, they all bowed and said, "Please ask King of Han to ascend the throne!"
Han Chen and others bowed to the spot, only Han Huang stood foolishly with Han Yi. Han Yi's tiger eyes swept around, looking at King Nan of Zhou in front of him, then said: "The emperor's order should not be disobeyed. Today, I gave up my throne. I felt that I had shortcomings, but I really let the people live in my life and could not bear the people's troubles of war again. Now I ascend the throne ashamed. If I have not allowed the people to be rich and avoid the suffering of war in heaven and earth, I am willing to comfort the world with death! Heaven and earth are learned together, demons, gods, immortals and demons listen together!"
Han Yi's voice spread throughout the earth. When the people heard it, they trembled and knelt down. The King of Zhou said with white clothes, and personally brought the king's mural for Han Yi and put on the king's robe.
Since then, the eight hundred years of Zhou King's foundation ended. Han Yi stroked his beard, looked at King Nan of Zhou, took a deep breath and said, "Zhou Duke Ji Yan Dayi, is now named Anle Gong, and is rewarded with a fief in Jingcheng, Inner South Peninsula. I hope Zhou Gong is happy in his old age!"
"Minist! Thank you, the emperor!" Ji Yan lowered his head weakly. The last king like him was the last comfort to them. After all, there were many last kings who were not as good as him.
Han Yi looked at Han Huang next to him, stroked his head, held him in his arms, and looked at the people around him and said, "I have been told that I have been the one who has taken office and now I have been halved for half a year. The people will celebrate together!"
"The king is tolerant! The king is to be kind!" Seeing the good things that were affordable, the people knelt down and praised Han Yi for his merits.
Han Yi looked around, glanced at Duke Zhou who was kneeling below, and smiled and said, "King of Zhou! Come with me to the banquet!"
"I obey the order!" Ji Yan lowered his head weakly and followed Han Yi honestly, not daring to breathe.
Han Huang looked at Wang Mian on Han Yi's head with black eyes, reached out to grab the crown bead in front of Han Yi, and asked, "Grandpa! What is this!"
"This is a Crown! Does it look good?" Han Yi was in a good mood today and teased this little guy.
Han Huang looked at the little bead in front of him and smiled foolishly: "It looks good! Can you give it to the little phoenix?"
When Han Chen heard this, he was shocked and immediately said with a dark face: "Huang'er can't mess around!"
Han Huang was taught a lesson by Han Chen, and he could only lower his head angrily. Han Yi hugged Han Huang and laughed and said, "Okay! When you can take on the great responsibility, this Wang Mian will be yours sooner or later!"
"Thank you grandpa!" Han Huang clapped his hands happily, then grimaced at Han Chen and stretched out his pink tongue. Han Chen was helpless, but Han Ning's heart sank to the bottom. Is there no chance at all?
A banquet was held in the palace to entertain King Ji Yan of Zhou. In order to make him feel happy, Han Yi gave him three hundred beautiful women captured in Qin to him, so that he could enjoy his old age. This was worthy of him.
Now he just accepts abdication and wants to be a feudal monk in Mount Tai afterwards. After some wine and meat, Duke Zhou was also taken to rest. In order to avoid the assassin, he filled Han Yi's voice with stains. Han Yi directly ordered Tianji to send a large number of people to protect Ji Yan, and even allocated three hundred wolf shadows to protect Ji Yan so that Ji Yan could not be airtight.
Then Han Yi ordered an edict to abolish King Xi of Yan. The royal family of Yan State was originally extremely fierce in resistance, but under the crushing of Wei Qing and Xu Shu and Wenwu, these people did not cause much storm and were directly covered. King Xi of Yan was directly detained and transported to Chang'an to wait for Han Yi's destiny.
Of course, Han Yi did not treat him badly, and rewarded his fiefdom in a place where birds do not shit in the south. Now the world is stable and it is not easy to massacre. We must give kindness to the world and calm the people's hearts.
When Yan State was held down, Han Qi also symbolically submitted the letter of attorney, and Wu State officially fell into Han Yi's hands. Although it had long been in Han Yi's hands, it was not in name. Now it has just tore off the last fig leaf.
Han Yi frowned at the current domestic expenses. Although domestic tax revenues have increased overall, the expenses are also quite large, such as the maintenance of the army and the resettlement of Qin soldiers. After all, they have just surrendered, and the cultures of different places are different, so various frictions are inevitable. In order to eliminate this barrier, Han Yi combined Zhenbei Army, Han Qinhu and Cao Cao's troops and reorganized them, kicked out the old, weak, sick and disabled people, as well as the soldiers who had not participated in the war, and let them go home to farm. At the same time, the domestic troops are reorganized. While ensuring combat effectiveness, they also allow the people to obtain a large amount of labor. First, they are to resume production, and second, they are to open up wastelands and increase grain production.
But how could that be said, who would dislike the lack of money in their family? As the demand for salt increases, the salt farms also increase a lot. In addition, tea and foreign trade, mainly Jinyang, merchants were sent to the grassland to buy cattle and sheep, and the tea and salt from the Central Plains were sold to the grassland in exchange for huge profits. At the same time, there were few plowing cattle in China. When the merchants came back from buying cattle, they were directly purchased by the state and distributed to the people. Although this was a money-losing project, the merchants' taxes directly made up for this vacancy and made huge profits.
Seeing the country prospering, Han Yi turned his attention to the silk of Shu. After all, compared with coarse cloth, silk is simply a weapon. Han Yi was also clear about the powerful relationship between this and directly sent Fu Hao to take charge of the matter. He got silk in Shu and expanded the production. Once the silk was released, it was directly bought by many prodigal women from the ministers, and even had no market price. Seeing that it was profitable, Han Yi followed suit and set it as state-owned. The merchants pursued the trend and started to have the idea of silk, and traveled thousands of miles to transport silk to the outside world.
With this huge profit, Han Yi was instantly in a state of water. Taking advantage of this gap, Han Yi made a tinker with porcelain. After all, this thing was a huge profit in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. Han Yi naturally did not give up, allowing craftsmen to continue to develop. Although the production process was very rough, the progress was very obvious. The new porcelain was snatched up, and Han Yi also enjoyed it.
When the soldiers were in use, the armor and weapons of soldiers were constantly being developed and improved, and the management of equipment was constantly improving. Although they could not be militant, they could not value culture over military affairs. Han Yi did not want his future dynasty to be defeated by the grassland and dared not go north. This was not what Han Yi wanted to see.
The lights in the study were constantly changing, and Han Yi rubbed his head and fell asleep in a drowsy manner.
But the north was unstable. With the inflow of tea, salt, and silk, the grassland suddenly realized the terrible wealth of the Central Plains. After all, what did that mean? You are not afraid of thieves stealing, but you are afraid of thieves thinking about it.
Li Shimin also began to feel restless at this moment. After five or six years of cultivation, he made him ambitious. Looking at the tea leaves in front of him, Li Shimin only felt that he was not good at eating. Although the population in China has increased significantly, many people starved to death or even froze to death every year. After all, his place is too cold. His colleague Li Shimin also understood the prosperity of the Central Plains and couldn't help but salivate.
Of course, Li Shimin didn't dare to take it lightly. He looked at the bamboo slips in his hand, glanced at Changsun Wuji under him for a while and said, "Wuji! What do you think!"
"To pacify the people now, the army has been expanding its enrollment! But military rations have always been a problem. We are not easy to raise so many soldiers. The plan for the present is to join forces with Nurhaci to attack the Central Plains. Although it cannot be destroyed in one fell swoop, the plundered wealth can make the people have a good New Year." Changsun Wuji's face was solemn, and he shivered when the cold wind blew. Since Li Shimin came to power, the country has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes, turning the original thatched hut into the current stone hut, but in winter, countless people have starved to death.
"I'll leave this matter to you! Take a trip to the grassland on my behalf!" Li Shimin sighed and said with a deep breath.
"Understand" Changsun Wuji had no choice but to lead the team to the grassland.
At the same time, Genghis Khan could not hold it anymore. The temperature difference between day and night in the grassland was huge, it was so hot that it was dying during the day and cold that it was dying at night. Moreover, the water source on the grassland was very scarce and it had to be moved every year. In addition, the good things introduced from the Central Plains made these hungry wolves salivate.
Finally, the situation comparable to the last grassland war was about to break out. The envoys sent by Li Shimin arrived at Nurhaci's grassland. The two sides reached an agreement and began to prepare military salaries. They went south to invade the Central Plains next winter. Temujin seemed to have been involved with them and assembled 200,000 slaughter cavalry, and 100,000 slaves were preparing to go south here.
After Han Yi unified the Central Plains, he naturally began to prepare for the subsequent battles. After all, the neighbor of the grassland was not very friendly. Han Yi also began to actively build the Great Wall, connecting the Yan Great Wall with the Great Wall of Zhao. Of course, this magnificent building was also a waste of money.
After careful calculation, Ying Zheng spent ten years building two million people, while Han Yi only gathered 600,000 prisoners to build it. The gap can naturally be imagined. If you count it carefully, it will take about forty years.
Han Yi was also very troubled by this, so he simply helped the Luban disciples, which made the construction period much faster. However, as the people's lives get better and better, the probability of crime is getting lower and lower. The prisoners are released after being sentenced, and the 600,000 people are fewer and fewer. Han Yi is also worried about this. Helpless Han Yi finally decided to recruit workers and let them build the Great Wall when the people are slack in the farming period. But after all, it is not that they are not unsavory, but each person is responsible for two meals and five copper coins a day. It is not that Han Yi is stingy, but that the country does not have that much budget.
Chapter completed!