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Liu Yishou immediately ordered Lou Zhao, the younger brother of Lou Zhaojun who was the first to turn against him, to be the governor of Xiangzhou, and ordered him to be responsible for collecting the remnants of Luo Gaohuan, resettle these people properly, and immediately start demolition of the old city of Ye.

Especially the old palace in Yecheng must be completely demolished, not a single tile can be left behind.

Then use the demolished building materials to build a new city of Ye in the south of Zhangshui.The scale of the city does not have to be large, but the ferry and storage must be well built. In the future, Yecheng will become a base for transporting grain in Hebei, and will form a prosperous commercial city.

The military role of this city has been infinitely reduced to negligible because the world is about to be unified and it is far away from the country's borders.And the people in the world will open their mouths, and solving their problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation will be the primary task after the unification of the world.

Prosperous transport ferries and large-scale storage are far more effective than cold city walls.

The elite of Gao Ao's Cao Department was completely wiped out by the Liang army in this battle, and the military strength of the Hebei family was severely damaged. They had already withdrawn their letters and dared not move.Liu Yishou also did not lead his army to pursue the victory, but used political means to negotiate conditions with various families in Hebei, hoping that they would accept the imperial court's offer.

Zhao'an, who was always relying on gourds and gourds as before, is what the Hebei aristocratic family can't ask for now, but what Liu Yishou wants is not just a casual nod from those people.

This kind of recruiting is to demolish the Hebei family's Wubao in Hebei, dismiss most of the tenants belonging to them, and even ask for appearances.For example, the Li family of Zhaojun had thousands of tenants in a certain county, and these people were all part of the township soldiers during the war.

These Hebei aristocratic families are not government officials. If they don't want to rebel all day long, what kind of trouble do they want to raise so many militiamen?

It is impossible for Liu Yishou to give in at this step. There are all kinds of docks everywhere in Hebei, which are so dense that it makes people feel scared. Most of them must be demolished, and only a small part should be kept.

Without Wubao, the Hebei aristocratic family would not be able to garrison private troops, and would not be able to grandly control the local people in terms of personal freedom.

These big families who are getting fatter and fatter will also be suppressed to a certain extent.What Liu Yishou wants is not the superficial compromise of hello, me, everyone, but what he wants is the substantive unity of the world!

The big families in Hebei can mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers from the countryside at every turn, and no one in power can tolerate them as monsters.

As expected by Liu Yishou, this kind of negotiation is almost like talking with a duck.Among the four leading Gao brothers, two died and one was seriously injured, all thanks to Liu Yishou, and the dream of ruling Hebei was shattered. This hatred cannot be relieved by just talking about it.

The other Hebei aristocratic families are like bullies who eat weights and are resolutely unwilling to demolish Wubao, but these people agree to surrender while keeping Wubao.

Liu Yishou didn't get angry about this, because getting angry can't solve the problem, he has plenty of tricks and time to fight these people.There's no need to forcefully rush up to regain Hebei, and let those people turn from open to dark to make life difficult for themselves.

It doesn't matter if the Hebei family is unwilling to compromise. Anyway, Hebei's vitality was severely damaged in the last battle. Now the whole territory is within the attack range of Liang Jun. If they want to farm food and restore blood honestly, there is no way.

As long as the tenants come out to cultivate the land, Liang Jun will arrest them, and then resettle them on the spot in Hanoi and other places north of the Yellow River, and re-register their household registrations!

The biggest difference between Gao Aocao and Gao Huan is that the Hebei family can only stick to their territory, and they have no appeal.

Liu Yishou was free to toss them casually.

In addition, Yang Min also offered advice to Liu Yishou, proposing an all-round economic blockade policy on Hebei, especially the sea salt in the Changlu area of ​​Hebei, which the imperial court must grasp.

The first strike against the Hebei family started with salt!

Yang Min was born in a great family and has dealt with money and materials for a long time, so he understands the truth and knows where the biggest weakness of the Hebei family is.

Only when your own people chop up your own people, you can be quick, accurate and ruthless!

Liu Yishou followed his advice and ordered Zhou Wenyu, Xu Du and others to set up a stronghold at the exit of the Haihe River and build a wooden fort, which was later rebuilt into a stone fort. .

Liu Yishou named this place "Tianjin" and took control of the surrounding Changlu Salt Fields, which had an astonishing scale since the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.His request to the Tianjin guard is simple: even if he cannot control the salt field, he must interfere with other people's use of the salt field to produce sea salt.

If you can't eat it, you can smash it. Now Liu Yishou has a big fortune and a big territory, so he can afford it.

Tianjin’s supplies were all transported by sea, and the ships transported between Guangling (Yangzhou) and Tianjin formed a stable coastal route.

Without the support of the Changlu Salt Farm, Hebei's salt was cut off. Jizhou, Zhaojun, Fanyang, Boling and other places, from the children of the rich family to the small people in Shengdou and even the private army of the tenants, were all shocked!

Liu Yishou's knife was ruthless and accurate.In order to obtain salt, the big families in Hebei must make a choice:

Should he resist the general trend of unification and continue to live on his own three-acre land, or should he abandon the local Wubao and industry, go to Luoyang to become an official, and then welcome the new political structure?

Or just lift the table and play "salt battle" with Liang Jun in the salt field along the coast, relying on heaps of human lives to rob salt?

Survival and destruction are often in a single thought.

After estimating the territory and population controlled by Liu Yishou, the big family in Hebei chose to put their flags to rest and decided to see the situation first.Even if they fight for consumption, they can't fight Liang Jun!

Of course, the big families have hoarded a lot of salt in their treasury, and they can still resist for a long time. They still have enough time to think about countermeasures, and it is only the people at the bottom who suffer.

One month later, Liu Yishou named Yu Jin the governor of Hebei Xingtai, and left him in Yecheng to take charge of recruiting and accepting rebels.Lou Zhao, the land snake, was left behind to assist Yu Jin, and the two handled Hebei affairs together.Liu Yishou himself returned to Xingyang as a class teacher, preparing to move into Luoyang New City.

Before leaving, Liu Yishou went to Ci County to visit Gao Huan's grave.

"We're old acquaintances."

Standing in front of a towering mound, Liu Yishou sighed softly, feeling extremely complicated in his heart.The person who knows you best, and what you know best, is definitely not the person next to you, but your old enemy!

This is the case with Liu Yishou and Gao Huan. They have been fighting since they met, and the fight is not over until one of them makes a conclusion.

In the process of fighting old coins like Gao Huan, Liu Yishou sharpened himself. To a certain extent, Gao Huan made Liu Yishou.

"You have practiced so many trumpets and produced so many bastards, which makes me very embarrassed. With so many people, Lou Zhaojun doesn't mind if I kill them. Do you think I should kill them or not?

Killing it seems a bit mean, there is no tolerance; if I don't kill them, they will seek revenge on me in the future, so what should I do?Will someone say that I am the benevolence of a woman? "

Liu Yishou asked rhetorically as if talking to himself.

The mound was speechless, and could only answer with the wind.

"Forget it, it's better not to kill. So many people have died, the world will unite after a long time, and now it is time to eliminate disputes. When the world is a family, what's the use of killing your sons?

If the dynasty I established is really overthrown by your son, that is God's will.I guess there are others without them, so let them be. "

Liu Yishou waved his hands to himself, as if to convince himself, and then left Ci County with his personal guards.

What Liu Yishou didn't know was that among the young generals who would go to Goguryeo and Turks for him in the future, there would be Gao Huan's concubine's heir.

What he didn't even know was that because Gao Huan's heir was not killed, when Guanzhong was pacified in the future, many local tyrants would open the city gates to welcome Wang Shi into the city when they heard that Liang Jun was coming.

Gao Huan's heirs can survive, just like Liu Bang granted Yong Chi, others also think that they can survive by surrendering Liu Yishou.No matter how damned people are, they don't feel that they are more damned than Gao Huan's heirs.

This is the mindset that lurks in people's minds.

At this time, the surrounding areas of Luoyang have been cleared.

The new capital of Luoyang, which is not particularly large in scale but scientifically built, stands twenty miles to the west of the old Luoyang city.

It is impossible to pass Guanzhong, and it will never be possible to set the capital in Guanzhong.Liu Yishou is determined to protect the vegetation in the upper reaches of the Yellow River no matter what. If Guanzhong is the capital in the future, it will cause a devastating blow to the ecology of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and it will almost never recover.

Most of the ecological disasters in Shaanxi, Gansu and other places in his previous life can be traced back to the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Besides, due to the limited area of ​​Qinchuan in the eight hundred miles of Guanzhong, when the fields in the Yellow and Huai plains of Guandong were gradually reclaimed, the importance of the Guanzhong Agricultural Economic Zone in the country began to decline.

And it continues to decline.

During the period from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, wars in the Yellow River Basin were frequent. The water conservancy facilities of the Zhengguo Canal and Baiqu Canal, which were the lifeblood of Guanzhong’s agriculture, were in disrepair for a long time. Due to the incision of the river bed, the irrigated area was reduced by three quarters, and even nine tenths in severe cases. .

There is no stable grain output in Guanzhong, which is fatal for the capital of a feudal empire.

Liu Yishou ordered Chen Yuankang to issue an edict in Jiankang, which is the most famous "Donation Order" in history.The king of Han established Luoyang as his capital, and rewarded him with land in Luoyang and its suburbs.

You can go there if you have money, you can reduce your money if you have an official position, and allocate special land for officials and wealthy businessmen to live in.Officials without money can only rent houses after being transferred to Luoyang as officials in the future.

Or wait for the court's will.

Two months later, at the beginning of the new year, Liu Yishou took over Luoyang New City and renamed it "Daxing", the implication being self-evident.At the same time, Liu Yishou personally commanded and dispatched the five-way army to attack the pass in Luoyang.

The first route was Duan Shao's division, which attacked Qizhou from Chencang Road in Hanzhong, and went smoothly to Wanchuan, west of Zhiguo County, Wudu County.Da Xiwu, Su Chuo and others who were entrenched in Wudu County surrendered, and the journey was almost bloodless.

The second route was Yang Zhong, the main force of the Liang army, who went to Wuguan to approach Chang'an. However, Chang'an was not easy to attack with heavy troops, so Yang Zhong stationed troops in Lantian County.

The third route was led by Yaofen, Murong Shaozong and others from Bingzhou. They set out from Jinyang, took over Pingyang, passed through the abandoned Yubi City, and marched to the dilapidated Puban. Tunza.

The fourth route was led by Yang Kan to the forbidden army, and they went through Zhiguan and entered Hedong.The Xue, Pei, and Liu clans of the Hedong family all settled in Luoyang with their direct family members, waived the mining rights of the Hedong Salt Lake, and accepted the jurisdiction of the Liang State.

After these four armies were in place, Liu Yishou personally led [-] soldiers from Jiangzhou, and [-] elite troops from his lineage, entered Guanzhong from Tongguan, and joined forces with Bingzhou soldiers and horses to join Puban.

Liang Jun, oh, it should be called Han Jun now.Under the offensive of the Han army's overwhelming Mount Tai, Gao Yang, Hou Mo, Chen Shun and others in Guanzhong also stopped attacking each other, and huddled together to keep warm and wanted to resist.

However, once the general trend of unifying the world is determined, people's hearts cannot be dealt with.Before Hou Mo Chenshun and Gao Yang "sincerely cooperated", Li Hu turned against the water with his cronies and led Yang Zhong's troops into Chang'an.

After the Han army occupied Chang'an, Hou Mo, Chen Shun and others died in the rebellion, Gao Yang was also killed by his subordinates, and Guanzhong was initially determined.Liu Yishou ordered Gao Yang's body to be buried in the same place as Gao Huan's, not too far apart. It was also a large mound, which was the Xianbei style of burial.

Liu Yishou was very tolerant towards the dead, but he didn't give Gao Yang any posthumous title.

In the eyes of many people, maybe Gao Yang is not worthy of being compared with Liu Yishou at all. Since he is not "competing on the same stage", he is not qualified for the posthumous title.

Knowing that the Han army pacified Guanzhong, Xiao Ji, who was far away in Shu, was so frightened that he hurriedly went to the court, saying that he was old and the humidity in Bashu was too heavy for his health. He asked the court to take back the fief and re-canonize it.

Liu Yishou entrusted him with remonstrance and sealed him in Lanling County, Qingxu. This is the place where the Xiao family of Lanling made its fortune and the ancestral home.I heard that after Xiao Ji arrived in Lanling, he raised flowers and planted grass all day long without caring about world affairs, and almost completely faded out of the sight of the government and the public.

Except for some places in Hebei, the world has been unified on the surface. Of course, it is not ruled out that many ambitious people are secretly trying to move.

In the second year of Liu Yishou's entry into Daxing City, he abolished the system of electing local officials, abolished the nine-rank Zhongzheng system that had long existed in name only in Liang Guo, and declared the mainstream of "decreasing by virtue of meritorious service" and "selection by Enke". The official selection system also accepts self-recommended and recommended talents, but the number is limited and it is not the mainstream.

For a time, the price of residential land in Luoyang and surrounding areas skyrocketed!All the officials in Jiankang City and the wealthy households who had conditions to relocate all ran to the north.If they can't even smell the shift of the political center, then they won't be able to get where they are today.

In the third year of Liu Yishou's rule in Daxing City, Xiao Dong, the emperor of Liang Kingdom, made a request to surrender the position of emperor to Liu Yishou, and he lowered himself to "King of Liang".Liu Yishou refused to allow it, and his tone was very firm, thanking him for not accepting it.

A few days later, Xiao Dong made another petition, requesting to give up the position of emperor again, but Liu Yishou refused again, but his tone was not firm.

In the end, Xiao Dong went to the table again and issued an imperial edict.The edict said: Although the world is unified, he has not done much in it, and he may be punished by God if he does not match his virtue.If Liu Yishou cannot accept the position of emperor, then he can only thank the world by committing suicide.

Liu Yishou had no choice but to "reluctantly" accept the emperor's abdication, set his capital in Daxing (Luoyang), and amnesty the world.

Later, Liu Yishou relocated the Baima Temple to Hanoi, and changed the original temple into a "Commercial Press", which was juxtaposed with Jiankang's "Zhonghua Bookstore".

Not only that, he also announced all the techniques of engraving and printing in the form of an imperial edict. Anyone can print books by themselves, but they are not allowed to circulate.After the book is published and sold, it needs to be registered with the government to obtain a "print number".

In the future, only the "version number" of published books will be controlled, not its practitioners.

The news spread to the north that the Hebei aristocratic families who had already been troubled both at home and abroad came to vote and settled in the surrounding area of ​​Luoyang.

After the Han army took over Hebei, they left Youzhou.Hu Luxian personally led troops to persuade Hu Lujin to surrender. After receiving a series of guarantees, Hu Lujin brought his tribe to Luoyang.Liu Yishou still led Hulu Guang to guard Youzhou to guard against Goguryeo.

In the same year, the Turks joined forces with the Gaoche people in the grasslands to surprise the royal court of Rouran. Anahu died in battle, and his relatives came from Youzhou to join Liu Yishou.

Although the timing of sending troops was inappropriate, Liu Yishou still ordered Hu Luguang and his sons, combined with Bingzhou Yaofen and others, to attack from two directions, and taught the fledgling Turks a lesson.

Immediately, Liu Yishou brought Anagu's granddaughter into the harem, and supported Anagu's son, An Luochen, to go out of the Great Wall to the north of Sizhou and rebuild the Rouran royal court.

After solving these matters, Liu Yishou devoted his energy to domestic reconstruction.

There are many rivers in Hebei. Grain and fodder are transferred to Yecheng through Qinghe, Zhanghe and other rivers, and then transported to the Yellow River from artificial canals through Yecheng's water transportation.

Liu Yishou built the Liyang Cabin in Liyang near Fangtou to stockpile grain and grass in Hebei.

Luokou Warehouse was also built in the southeast of Gongxian County, where the grain transported from the south of the Yangtze River via the Grand Canal was stored.

Since then, the food and fodder in Hebei, Jiangnan, and Huainan have all been near the imperial capital, which is enough to feed the future imperial capital ecosystem, nearly one-tenth of the country's population!

In the feudal era, the population of the imperial capital and its surroundings, including floating population, accounted for one-tenth of the national population, which was a very normal phenomenon.

The output of local farmland is completely unable to meet the needs of population growth, and foreign food and fodder must be introduced.It is because of this that Liu Yishou made his capital Luoyang but not Guanzhong.

In order to lift the blockade of Guanzhong, Liu Yishou sent people to build plank roads, Wuguan Road, Chencang Road, and Zhiguan Road to maintain the empire's control over Guanzhong.

Build the Grand Canal, promote sea transportation, and promote farmland and water conservancy.Open the imperial examination, suppress the powerful families, and promote the children of poor families to be officials.

Liu Yishou made great efforts to govern, and worked hard to bridge the natural gap caused by the division of the world for a century, and he was worthy of the people of the world.His reputation resounded throughout the land of China, establishing a lofty and irreplaceable prestige.

During Liu Yishou's reign for 43 years, he survived the death of three princes, all the heroes who followed him to conquer the world, and all the concubines except Yang Jiang.

All of his sons were disheartened, and many of them cursed Liu Yishou to die quickly every day.

It's just that Liu Yishou seemed to have received Xiao Yan's true biography, he lived more and more vigorously, and after he was 40 years old, he no longer took concubines, and cherished the women he had very much.It's a pity that those ladies still left him one by one, and they couldn't keep them no matter what.

Liu Yishou once swore secretly that he would only hold the next generation at most, and never hold the next two generations, let alone play with grandparents and grandchildren.

If you plant melons, you will reap beans. Liu Yishou is very kind to his women, and those women are also very considerate of him.When he was alive, he was generally able to restrain his children to keep their own place.

But after Liu Yishou's ladies passed away, his filial sons and grandsons became restless.

When almost any lady passed away, her sons seemed to be "activated" and immediately started the mode of laughing at fathers and sons. Only Xu Yuehua's son Liu Renfo became a monk, practicing medicine in temples and accumulating virtue, and did not care about government affairs.

When Liu Yishou was in his 60s, the world was peaceful for a long time, the people's hearts were stable, and the place was prosperous, almost to the point where he could not pick up lost things on the road.Many people think that picking Liu Yishou's peaches is very cost-effective, almost a huge profit, and there is no need to struggle at all.

Especially his heirs who are just around the corner.

So there was a five-year turmoil.

The son of Anahu's granddaughter, joined Rouran Khan in a rebellion in Sizhou, was defeated and captured, and demoted to the confinement of common people.

The sons of Li Zuyi and Li Zu'e supported Cui Xiaoniang's eldest son in a rebellion in Hebei. He was defeated and captured, and was demoted to the confinement of common people.

Yangjiang's eldest son, surrounded by several princes, wanted to take advantage of Liu Yishou's southern tour of the Lingnan, in vain attempt to unite with Taishan Yang's internal support in the Luoyang imperial army, and join forces with many parties.

As a result, he tried to enter the palace to correct the imperial edict, and when he was discussing with his mother about raising troops, he was poisoned to death by the well-prepared Yang Jiang!

A rebellion disappeared without a trace.

This is the closest time that Liu Yishou's heirs have succeeded in seizing power.After Liu Yishou returned to Daxing, he made Yang Jiang the queen and took charge of all affairs in the harem.

Liu Yishou managed the country very well, so all his sons hoped that he would die soon, and hoped that they could fully take over the country.

As a result, Liu Yishou never dies, and the turmoil at the birthday banquet every year is even more powerful than that of Xiao Yan back then.Gaining the country and losing the love of his family, Liu Yishou often feels emotional.

Since ancient times, the true love can't be kept, only the routine wins the hearts of the people. His middle and old age is not as good as that of ordinary people.There is no such thing as children and grandchildren surrounded by knees, maybe they have to prevent these people from being stabbed in the back.