The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 501 Volume I…have no choice but to accept it!
"I have never said that I do not support Your Majesty."

Liu Xie laughed a few times: "If Wenhe really supports me, those letters should not have reached my hands."

"During the Battle of Anyi and the Battle of Hebei, Wenhe was able to handle any major incidents in the rear, whether it was killing or burying, I never asked about it. Why is he writing down the matter of establishing a state and sending it to Qingzhou for me now?"

Liu Xie tried to be as kind as possible.

"Wenhe, is there anything you can't say in front of me?"

Jia Xu took a deep breath, and after a long while, he didn't say a word.

Liu Xie did not force Jia Xu, but instead gave him some pearls, corals and jade from the East China Sea.

Looking at these rare treasures, Jia Xu finally couldn't help but speak: "Your Majesty, there are three things I don't understand. Can Your Majesty help me solve these puzzles?"

"Wenhe, just tell me. Not to mention three, even thirty or three hundred, I will answer them one by one."

Jia Xu looked solemn: "Your Majesty, are you going to move the capital back to Luoyang?"

Liu Xie did not respond, but instead asked: "Why does Wenhe think so?"

"The foundation of the Later Han Dynasty was originally in Luoyang. Although Your Majesty restored the Han Dynasty, the lineage inherited from the Emperor Shizu is different after all, and you must give an explanation for the etiquette and laws of the Later Han Dynasty."

"And your majesty said that you want to open up sea transportation in Qingzhou, so that Youzhou, Liaodong, and Jiangdong can all be connected in one place, with Luoyang as the hub to connect the north and the south."

"Throughout the dynasties, there has been no other reason for the emperor to take such a big step, except to build an imperial capital."

"This is not only my guess, but also the other ministers are guessing, even..."

Jia Xu paused for a moment.

"Some people even speculated that after His Majesty returned from Liaodong, he would stop in Luoyang instead of going back to Chang'an!"

The emperor will not return to Chang'an...

This is no longer just sending a political signal, but launching a political earthquake!
Liu Xie even laughed at himself and said, "Am I so willful in Wenhe's eyes?"

"Your Majesty has been willful for more than just one or two days."

"..."

Liu Xie was slightly stunned.

Jia Xu had never spoken to him like this before.

Right now, Jia Xu is obviously serious!

Liu Xie burst out laughing.

"If I really want to move the capital to Luoyang, why would I spend so much money to build a new city in Chang'an?"

"The heart of the Han Dynasty can only be in Chang'an. Do you know why, Wenhe?"

"I am stupid, please enlighten me, Your Majesty."

"Because Kanto is so rich."

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"That's right, Wenhe, you heard it right, Kanto is really rich."

Liu Xie smiled bitterly and talked about what he saw and heard in Guandong.

"When I arrived in Luoyang a few years ago, it was still a wasteland."

"But just a few years later, Luoyang's prosperity is no less than any other big city in the world."

"There are also Yecheng, Handan, Xingyang, Pengcheng, Linzi..."

"No matter how much Guanzhong develops, it will never surpass Guandong."

"Guanzhong is a place surrounded by mountains and rivers. It can only retain some vitality during times of chaos... But once the prosperous times return, Guandong will definitely be far superior to Guanzhong!"

This comparison is never fair.

How big is Guanzhong and how many people are there?

The land of Guandong is several times larger than that of Guanzhong. The population of Guandong is several times larger than that of Guanzhong.

As peace gradually arrives, the prosperity of Guandong will inevitably surpass that of Guanzhong.

and so……

"So I don't want future generations to think that I, the Han Dynasty, am only half a Han Dynasty!"

Because Guandong is destined to surpass Guanzhong in the future and be far more prosperous than Guanzhong, the heart of the Han Dynasty must be in Guanzhong! It must be in Chang'an!
If the capital of the Han Dynasty was moved to Luoyang, the Han Dynasty today would inevitably repeat the mistakes of the Later Han Dynasty!
At the beginning, the Western Regions were lost.

Then, the Qiang people began to multiply and thrive in Liangzhou on a large scale.

In the end, even the entire Guanzhong will have to be abandoned!
Only by firmly nailing the capital of the Han Dynasty in Guanzhong can the Han Dynasty always possess Liangzhou and the Western Regions!

In addition, there are political factors.

The foundation of the Han regime's current revival is ultimately the Xiliang team and Guanzhong troops left behind by Dong Zhuo.

Once the capital of the Han Dynasty is moved to Guandong, the Han Dynasty's base will disappear.

At that time, these Xiliang troops and Guanzhong soldiers will definitely come to fight Liu Xie to the death!

Liu Xie would never do such a thing as digging his own grave before, he would not do it now, and he would definitely not do it in the future!
After hearing Liu Xie's remarks, Jia Xu felt inexplicably relieved.

Although the emperor has fought several wars, the people in Guanzhong were actually the most restless after he left this time!
Kanto is prosperous after all.

A group of elders from Xiliang and Guanzhong were worried that the emperor was obsessed with the prosperity of Guandong and wanted to move the capital to Luoyang.

In order to preserve his political achievements, no matter how reluctant Jia Xu was, he had to confront the emperor and let the emperor explain his thoughts clearly.

Now that he heard that the emperor knew what was in his mind better than anyone else, Jia Xu felt a little ashamed...

"I understand your Majesty's words. I will explain them to all the officials."

"Secondly, I would like to ask Your Majesty, why do you have to implement sea transportation?"

"Once sea transportation is opened, the East, which is farthest from Chang'an, will naturally become prosperous."

"Is this really right?"

Liu Xie remained silent.

"Wenhe, please ask the third question at the same time, and I will answer them all." "Okay."

Jia Xu finally couldn't help asking, "Your Majesty, why do you insist on establishing a state?"

"Your Majesty, don't you know that the road is long and the sky is high, and it is not easy to control the court?"

"Weak trunk and strong branches has always been the national policy of the Han Dynasty! In the past, Emperor Gaozu divided the Liu clan kings, but in the end, there was a rebellion of seven kingdoms! It took Emperor Xiaojing a lot of effort to quell it. Why does Your Majesty insist on doing this? Isn't the lesson of the past profound enough?"

Liu Xie guessed correctly.

Jia Xu’s two questions...or even three questions, are actually, in the final analysis, just one question.

This question was not only what Jia Xu wanted to ask, but also what all the central officials wanted to ask him, the emperor.

Why, not strengthen the trunk and weaken the branches?
Why not take back the power?
Why not restrict the military generals?
Central government officials had previously speculated that the emperor wanted to move the capital to Luoyang.

But now that Jia Xu had received the emperor's answer, he knew that the so-called relocation of the capital was all just wishful thinking on the part of people like him.

But at the same time, this also made Jia Xu even more confused.

Why doesn't the Son of Heaven do what he "should" do now, but instead goes against the grain and follows the Zhou rites?

If Jia Xu had not understood the emperor's nature, he would have really thought that the emperor was fooled by those Confucian scholars in Qi and Lu who praised the rule of the Three Dynasties!
"what."

Liu Xie did not answer, but pulled Jia Xu and went to the Forbidden Garden with him.

"Wenhe, look over there."

Liu Xie pointed to a pond not far away.

"Ask the channel that is so clear that it is a source of fresh water."

As the king and his minister approached, they saw that the pond was clear and there were carp swimming in the water.

"But Wenhe, do you know that... even if there are canals to circulate the water in this pond every day, it is still impossible to avoid the sedimentation at the bottom of the lake. We often need to send craftsmen to move the silt."

"If we don't move one day, these seemingly clear ponds will sooner or later become turbid and block the source water tanks, turning into a pool of mud."

Jia Xu listened quietly to the emperor's story.

“History is a mirror that can help us understand the rise and fall of a nation.”

"Qin, Early Han, Later Han..."

"Not counting the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, we have gone through three dynasties and lasted for more than 400 years."

"Can't Wenhe see that the stronger the trunk and the weaker the branches, the more helpless we will be?"

Jia Xu finally couldn't help but speak at this moment -

"Your Majesty! Hasn't it always been like this since ancient times?"

But as soon as he finished speaking, Jia Xu was a little stunned.

Because he always felt that he had heard these words before.

I've heard from aristocratic families before.

I once heard Toad Confucian say this.

Today, I heard myself say these words...

"It seems Wenhe has also thought of it."

Liu Xie looked at Jia Xu and said, "But since ancient times, is it necessarily right?"

“There is nothing wrong with a strong trunk and weak branches, but the focus should not be on the ‘weak branches’ but on the ‘strong trunk’.”

"To weaken the branches just for the sake of strengthening the trunk will inevitably lead to a dead end!"

The focus of strengthening the trunk and weakening the branches should be on the former, not the latter!
This is Liu Xie’s point of view!

If a short shrub has too many side branches extending out, it does need to be pruned to prevent them from stealing nutrients from the main trunk and becoming the main host.

But a tall giant tree can have countless branches growing all over its body!

"Besides, Wenhe..."

"You are familiar with history books, so you should know what the land of Kyushu was like when the Zhou royal family divided the land among the princes."

"Northern Di, Western Rong, Eastern Yi, Southern Barbarians..."

"If I lived in the Spring and Autumn Period, I would encounter the Quanrong as soon as I left Chang'an, the Baidi as soon as I arrived in Hedong, and the Luhunrong as soon as I went to Luoyang..."

"If the Zhou royal family had not granted fiefs to the princes, and if the Chinese heroes had not respected the king and repelled the barbarians, would the Chinese clothing and customs still exist?"

"If I don't occupy a place today, it will be occupied by someone else tomorrow... If my descendants knew about this, they would blame me. Do you understand?"

Jia Xu didn’t understand!
……

"Your Majesty! The territory of the Han Dynasty is already large enough!"

"Then why can some people only obtain a few dozen acres of land by relying on the court's equal distribution of land?"

Liu Xie's question left Jia Xu at a loss.

The territory of the Han Dynasty was already large enough, so large that it could not even be drawn on a map, and so large that some people could not travel around it in their entire lifetime.

But the territory of the Han Dynasty was small enough that some people still did not have their own houses or land, and could only live at the mercy of others...

"I have seen the land of Liaodong. In a few decades, it will be able to feed millions of people without any problems."

"The same is true for the Annan Protectorate. The scattered islands are also enough to support hundreds of thousands of people."

"There are also the Western Regions and Daxia. Together, these places can also support the Han Dynasty's population of hundreds of millions."

"Wenhe, the Han Dynasty is too small now. Whenever I see people still living in mud houses, I can't help but feel distressed."

"It is urgent to follow the example of Zhou Dynasty and establish a state!"

"I...have no choice but to do so!"

　Chapter 498 has been blocked, I don’t know when it will be released... Reviewer, I was wrong! I will never be shy again!!!

　　
　
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