Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 148 Zhaoxuan Prosperity ([-])

two years later
Yuankang two years
The entire Huo family was wiped out, the empress Huo Chengjun was thrown into limbo, and Liu Bing had finally regained the power that belonged to the emperor.

And continue to continue the national policy of recuperation and rejuvenation during the Huo Guang period, and further promulgate more policies that are beneficial to the people, including:
[Renamed Liu Xun, released all the people who were imprisoned for committing taboos;

Reduce the price of salt and iron sold by the salt and iron government, so that the common people can buy cheaper agricultural tools and salt, thereby reducing the cost of living of the common people;

The remaining hundreds of thousands of refugees were relocated to the Western Regions, Hexi, Heshuo, Liaoxi, Liaodong, and southern counties, and exempted from the five-year tax and corvee for the refugees in the fields, and gave the refugees in the fields free of charge, and loaned grain to the refugees in the fields without interest. Wait until they have a good harvest in the fields in a few years before returning the grain;

And, to celebrate the absence of refugees, Liu Xun exempted the world from taxes for one year;
Reduce the land tax to [-] taxes and [-], which is the same as that of Emperor Wen;

At the same time, the system of governors was restored, allowing governors to monitor officials and tyrants in counties and counties all over the world to prevent them from oppressing the people. In order to prevent governors from colluding with local officials and local tyrants, governors in remote areas were also required to report back to Chang'an once a year. The situation, and the governor of the Central Plains even has to go back to Chang'an five times a year to report to work! 】

During these four years of recuperation, Dahan finally settled the rest of the refugees properly.

There is not a single refugee in the entire Han territory!
It has been 130 years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, but this is the first time that there is not a single refugee in the whole world.

In the period of Emperor Gaodi, a thousand wastes were waiting for prosperity, and the refugees created by the chaos at the end of Qin Dynasty and the struggle between Chu and Han were still digesting.

During the period of Empress Lu and Emperor Wenjing, the Xiongnu ravaged outside and the vassal states rebelled inside, so some refugees were born.

During Emperor Wu's period, there were as many refugees as a cow's hair, and they would eat each other at every turn, just like the troubled times at the end of Qin Dynasty.

During the period of Emperor Zhao, he had been digesting the refugees left over from the period of Emperor Wu.

It wasn't until he, Liu Bing, became the emperor that the first time all the refugees were cleared up in this world.

There are no refugees in the whole world, which proves that the common people can barely fill their stomachs, and this can be regarded as a prosperous age.

Although the people's life is still difficult, compared with the previous emperor's period, at least the people now will not starve to death, and there is no phenomenon of cannibalism. Isn't this a prosperous age?
When the big man finally ushered in the prosperous age, Wang Hongnian also ushered in another moment of his glory.

Because he was the first to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, and contributed the most in the action to destroy the Huo family, Wang Hongnian was promoted to General of Chariots and Cavalry, and at the same time entered the Marquis Pass.

Among the twentieth ranks of military merit, the first eighteen ranks can be bought with money, and the higher the ranks, the more expensive they are. Starting from the No.19 rank of Marquis of Guannei, they cannot be purchased directly.

But the Marquis of Guannei is only an honorary Marquis, with the title of Marquis, but no Shiyi.

The No.20 Chehou is the Marquis with food, and the Chehou is divided into three levels: Pavilion Hou, Township Hou, and County Hou.

……

another three years later
The first year of Shenjue
Under the three consecutive years of light corvee and thin tax, the price of goods in the Han territory has continued to decrease, and the living costs of the people have continued to decline.

Nowadays, every stone grain in the Central Plains only costs five yuan, and the more remote food-deficient areas only need twenty yuan.

From five to twenty renminbi, this is an unprecedented food price!
The real prosperity! ! !
During the period of the Second Emperor Wenjing, each stone valley cost between [-] and [-] renminbi.

During the period of Emperor Wu, each stone valley cost between two hundred and five hundred dollars.

Against the background of such a prosperous country and a peaceful people, Emperor Liu Xun also decided to expand the territory, targeting the Western Qiang and the Western Regions.

Two months ago, the Qiang people invaded Hexi. Emperor Liu Xun thought that it was time to teach these Qiang people a lesson.

Immediately, they dispatched General Zhao Chongguo and General Wang Hongnian, each commanding [-] cavalry, to wipe out the Qiang people who invaded Hexi.

And after the extermination of the Qiang people, they will continue westward and surrender the Western Regions by the way.

……

Three months later
Jincheng County

Jincheng County

Tens of thousands of Qiang rebels have captured Linqiang County and Anyi County, and their troops are pointing directly at Jincheng County, the seat of Jincheng County.

Jincheng County is located in the Hehuang Valley, with Gushui in the north, Huangshui in the middle, and the river in the south.

These three rivers converge in Hexi to form the larger river (Yellow River).

To the northwest of Jincheng County is the West Sea (Qinghai Lake), to the south is the Daxue Mountain, and to the east is Hexi.

This was originally the place where the Qiang people gathered, but was later conquered by Emperor Wu, and these Qiang people also became the people of the Han Dynasty.

The Qiang people are a mixed farming and nomadic ethnic group. They go down to the mountains to farm during the farming season, and go up to the mountains to graze during the slack season.

But the Qiang people are not a nation in the true sense, but the general name of the nomadic and agricultural mixed tribal civilizations on the Hehuang Valley and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by the Han Dynasty.

That is to say, the Qiang people themselves do not know that they are Qiang people. They only know that they belong to a certain tribe. They live a life of grazing and farming every day, and fight with other nearby tribes from time to time. A powerful army that called themselves the Han Army conquered their homeland, and collectively called them and other tribes around them the Qiang.

This is the Qiang people's understanding of their identity.

Because they are relatively close to the Central Plains and can absorb the culture of the Western Regions, the level of civilization of the Qiang people is not too low. They have their own textile technology and bronze smelting technology, but because they have not yet mastered the iron smelting technology, their civilization level is not as good as that of the Central Plains.

The level of civilization is roughly equivalent to that of the Xia Dynasty in the Central Plains.

Among these forces around the Han Dynasty, the Qiang people were relatively civilized. After all, they already had relatively mature textile technology and bronze technology, reaching the level of civilization of the Xia Dynasty.

However, Sanhan is still in the initial stage of mastering textile technology and bronze technology, and has just reached the civilization level of the Five Emperors period.

The Japanese are even worse. They don't even have bronze technology now, and they have only just mastered textile technology.

The Pyu people have just left the matriarchal society not long ago.

Although conquered by the Han army, the Qiang people did not form a concept of the Han Dynasty in their minds, but subconsciously felt that this Han Dynasty was roughly a powerful tribe from the east who came to demand their surrender, that's all.

If they win, they will submit to other tribes, and if they lose, they will submit to other tribes. The Qiang people have been doing this for thousands of years, so they are very used to submit to the big man. It is nothing more than a bigger and stronger tribe.

It wasn't until the Han people continued to immigrate to the Hehuang Valley and reclaimed wasteland that the Qiang people finally realized that something was wrong.

When submitting to other powerful tribes in the past, it was nothing more than sending women and livestock regularly, such as the former Da Yuezhi and the later Xiongnu.

But why did this conqueror named Han not accept their women and livestock, but immigrated to their habitat every day to reclaim wasteland?
Isn't this squeezing the living space of their tribe?
You are all building cities in this kind of land, so how can we farm and herd?How can we still live?
You came to my house to open up wasteland, how can I not rebel?
They can surrender to the big man, and even offer beauties and livestock to the big man, but they absolutely cannot tolerate the continuous immigration of the big man to open up wasteland.

This behavior of squeezing the living space is to push their tribe to the point of extinction!

Therefore, as the Han Dynasty continued to migrate refugees from the Central Plains to the Hehuang Valley to reclaim wasteland, the conflict between the Qiang people and the Han people became more intense, and wars were inevitable.

No one is right or wrong in this war. Both Han and Qiang are trying to increase their own living space.

The strong live, the weak perish, that's all.

(End of this chapter)