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

Chapter 225 Dutian case ratio ([-])

another year later
Kenbu 16rd year

The ever-victorious Liu Xiu, as in the past, once again defeated the Hun army with less and more. When Lu Fang fled to the grassland, he happened to meet Wang Bian who was looking for the Hun tribe to slaughter, and was beheaded by Wang Bian. .

Relying on the military exploits of beheading Lu Fang, Wang Jian was once again promoted from Tinghou to Xianghou.

In the whole world, only the Western Regions have not yet returned, and it has roughly been regarded as reunification.

A few months ago, an envoy from the Kucha Kingdom in the Western Regions came to Luoyang and asked the great Han to rebuild the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

However, Liu Xiu believes that the world is in a state of waste, and the main task of the great man is to recuperate and restore the people's livelihood, rather than laboring on an expedition to control the Western Regions.

The distance to the Western Regions is too far, and it borders the Xiongnu. If there are fewer garrisons, it will not be effective. If there are more garrisons, a lot of supplies will be consumed, and the big Han does not have so many supplies to consume in the Western Regions.

Therefore, Liu Xiu rejected the request of the Kucha Kingdom, and was not in a hurry to recover the Western Regions.

Luoyang Banquet
In order to celebrate the reunification of the world, Liu Xiu summoned the ministers of civil and military affairs to a banquet.

Many maids came out of the temporary thatched huts to serve food and water to the ministers attending the banquet.

Liu Xiu had been busy fighting the war before, so he didn't have extra materials to repair the palace, so the Luoyang Palace looked a bit shabby.

Naturally, the four of Wang Bian also attended the banquet.

The obvious difference from Liu Bang’s founding of the country is that most of the founding heroes in Liu Bang’s period were born in Baiding, so they don’t know much about etiquette, and they often do some rude things at banquets, such as grabbing a dancing palace dancer in public and hugging them in their arms Here, it is like taking off the socks in public, in front of the emperor Liu Bang and the empress Lu Zhi, using the eating hand to buckle his own stinky feet, and then grab the fruit with his hands to eat, and so on.

However, most of the heroes who followed Liu Xiu in the founding of the country were from powerful noble families. They were born with etiquette in the family. Therefore, Liu Xiu's big man is more refined and refined than Liu Bang's big man, and has a lot less taste of peddlers.

So at the banquet, although all the founding heroes were toasting each other, and most of the men were looking lewdly at the beautiful dancers, no one dared to go to the crowd of dancers and forcibly take away the dancers, let alone do it Such things as buckling feet in public are obviously more polite than the founding heroes of Liu Bang's period.

When all the heroes from Conglong were enjoying themselves, Deng Yu, one of the heroes, stood up and said to Liu Xiu: "Your Majesty, the world is stable today, and there is no major war. However, there are many private soldiers in the hands of each general. The livelihood of the people is poor, so it is not suitable to support so many soldiers, we should disband the soldiers and let them return to their hometowns to cultivate the fields."

As soon as these words came out, all the heroes looked at Deng Yu.

Emperor Liu Xiu looked at Deng Yu with relief. He had secretly discussed this matter with Deng Yu a few months ago, that is, when drinking at the banquet, he persuaded the heroes to disband their trilogy, and since then he has become a rich man. old age.

For the heroes, let's have a 【Grand Wine Releases Military Power】.

When the four of Wang Bian joined the Han Dynasty, they did not bring their own family's private soldiers to the battle, but Liaodong County soldiers. Therefore, disbanding the private soldiers had no effect on them. It was nothing more than handing over the Liaodong County soldiers under their control to the court. They were mentally prepared for this kind of thing when they took refuge in Liu Xiu.

Therefore, Wang Bian stood up first and said: "I am willing to hand over the soldiers of Liaodong, so that I, a big man, can rest and recuperate."

Zhang, Li and Lu also stood up and echoed: "The ministers and others seconded the proposal."

Liu Xiu was very happy to see the four people in Liaodong so knowledgeable, and his affection for Liaodong grew more and more in his heart.

"Aiqing can think about the common people in the world. My heart is so good. It's just that the soldiers in Liaodong belonged to Aiqing. Now Aiqing voluntarily gave up the military power for the sake of the common people. I feel very guilty. How about it, Xiao Huan Wei Wangjian Jinjue Xu Xianghou (county marquis/Xuxiang County)."

Emperor Liu Xiu was overjoyed that Wang Bian was the first to stand up and hand over the military power of Liaodong County soldiers, so he promoted Wang Bian to the title of title again in front of everyone, so as to make a statement to other heroes: look , Wang Bian obediently handed over the military power, so I will promote her to the title and let her live a rich life. You should make a decision quickly. If anyone dares to hold the military power and refuse to let go, then don’t blame me for being rude.

After finishing speaking, Liu Xiu smiled and glanced at the other heroes present.

Liu Xiu looked at all the heroes and made their scalps tingle. In the end, Geng Yan, the chief minister with the best relationship with Liu Xiu, stood up first and said, "I, Geng Yan, are willing to hand over the military power and disband the trilogy!"

"I love Qing for the sake of the country and the people, and I am very relieved." Liu Xiu still had a gentle smile, and then promoted Geng Yan to the rank. Since Geng Yan is already a county marquis, so on the basis of the county marquis, he was given to Geng Yan Five hundred households in Shiyi were sealed.

Subsequently, other heroes also had to stand up and expressed their "voluntary" surrender of military power.

For these generals who 'voluntarily' handed over their military power, Liu Xiu promoted them to titles, granted them food, and rewarded them with money and beautiful women.

At the banquet, the military power of all heroes was lifted, and at the same time that the military power was lifted, Liu Xiu also ordered the reduction of county and state soldiers and military expenditures.

Counties that are not bordered by grassland nomads can only retain [-] county soldiers, and counties that border nomads such as the Xiongnu can only retain up to [-] county soldiers.

At the same time, townships and counties were further merged, counties with a population of less than [-] were merged into one county, and counties with a population too small were merged into other counties.

By reducing the number of administrative units, the scale of officials will be reduced and administrative costs will be reduced.

At the banquet, Emperor Liu Xiu made another major decision: "I plan to revoke the state shepherd and restore the governor, what do you think?"

Hearing this, the heroes hesitated for a moment, and then Wang Jian was the first to stand up and praise Liu Xiu: "Your Majesty's move is truly a blessing for the common people."

"Haha, Ming Yu said it too much~" Emperor Liu Xiu smiled, feeling full of affection for Wang Bian.

The rest of the heroes reacted and quickly agreed: "I have no objection."

They even gave up their military power. Without military power, if they wanted to continue to maintain the state shepherd, it would be difficult to keep it, so they might as well just give up as well, and treat it as a favor for the emperor.

After revoking the official position of Zhou Mu, which was a great threat to the central government, Liu Xiu made persistent efforts and said to all the heroes: "The people's livelihood in the world is declining, but the number of officials is no less than that after Xinmang usurped the throne. There are fewer people, but I have to support the same number of officials, so I plan to combine townships and counties, and lay off soldiers and officials, what do you think?"

"I have no objection." All the heroes replied again.

Liu Xiu strikes while the iron is hot: "But He Township and Bing County need to know the population of each county, so I ask you to persuade your fathers, elders and fellow villagers to report the real population and acres of each place to the imperial court after returning to your hometown. This is also for the sake of the world. For the sake of common people."

As soon as these words came out, the heroes hesitated again.

If giving up military power is at most uncomfortable for them, but with the compensation of the title, it will be psychologically balanced, but checking the population of the fields is much more uncomfortable than giving up military power.

None of the heroes dared to speak, you looked at me and I looked at you, waiting for someone else to be the first bird.

"What? Is there a problem?" Liu Xiu frowned and asked everyone.

"I'll wait...no objection." In the end, the heroes still hesitated and said that they would 'fully support' Emperor Liu Xiuqing's investigation of the population of the land.

(End of this chapter)