I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Liu Tan received the imperial edict before receiving his father's letter.

This imperial edict is not for him, or to be more precise, it is not entirely for him, it is for him and Liu Ku.

The subject was still Liu Ku, and Liu Tan had a bad feeling when he heard that Liu Che had issued an edict to Liu Ku.

How old is Liu Ku now, no matter what Liu Che asks him to do, he is unable to do it, and in the end it is Liu Tan who cleans up the mess.

But the imperial edict was issued, and Liu Che didn't discuss it with him, and Liu Tan didn't even hear the wind before.

At the moment when he opened the imperial edict, Liu Tan was really blinded—Liu Che named Liu Ku the King of Yan.

To be honest, among Liu Che's sons, Liu Ku was probably the first to be crowned king.

The other sons were driven away even at a very young age, and they were actually crowned kings at the age of six or seven, and many of them were not made kings at that time.

And when Liu Ku came here, in fact, Liu Ku didn't have to worry about going to the feudal clan, and he was still raised at Liu Tan's place. As Liu Tan's elder brother...temporarily acting as the king of Yan, he helped take care of Yan's land.

After reading it, Liu Tan stared at the map in a daze.

Sitting next to him, Lu Xuan gesticulated for a while, and couldn't help but frowned and said: "This... now that the big man has nearly half of the country in your hands, what does your majesty think?"

Liu Tan said dully, "I want to know too."

According to the maps of later generations, this area is about one-third of the entire country.

However, today's big Han...has no interest in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Western Regions are not part of the territory, and Lingnan belongs to the remote territory. Is it in Liu Tan's hands?

In fact, Liu Che had wanted to give him the country of Yan at the beginning. Of course, Liu Che's purpose was not to let him build the country of Yan, but to guard the border.

At least since Wei Huo's death, Liu Che has been unable to find another person who would let him hand over such a long border with confidence.

At that time, Liu Tan refused on the grounds that the fief was too large and inappropriate, and even pulled Liu Ju to speak for him, hinting at the prime minister by the way, and asked the prime minister to help dispel the emperor's thoughts.

In the end, after going around in circles, Liu Che still handed over the Yan Kingdom to him.

Facts have proved that no matter who persuades Liu Che to do what Liu Che is determined to do, it is useless unless there are no conditions for it to be realized.

But Liu Tan still planned to struggle a little bit, and wrote a memorial to Liu Che directly-writing letters is not enough, and writing letters to Liu Che, a big pig's hoof, can be completely invisible.

Although he can suppress the memorial, at least others will know that the King of the North has submitted the memorial and refuses.

There are reasons for Liu Tan's refusal. First, he has never heard of a prince temporarily claiming the fiefdom of another prince. Secondly, the princes of the Han Dynasty have no real power. He himself is special. As long as Yan Guo chooses A reliable prime minister can be the prime minister of everything, and there is no need for princes and kings at all.

Isn't that the case in other vassal states now?

After Liu Tan finished writing, he wrote another letter to Liu Ju, expressing angrily why he didn't stop him, he had to deal with so many things when he came back, and now he came to Yan, he was afraid that he would die young!

Then Liu Tan's memorial was called back by Liu Che.

Liu Che said very calmly that what he did was far from precedent, and now they can be used as a method for future generations. What precedents, precedents are also made by predecessors, so what if he wants to do it now?

Liu Tan: ...

Come on, it's wild boar.

As for the second question, let Prime Minister Yan take full power to handle the affairs of the entire vassal state... This request is very reasonable, at least in Liu Tan's view, but it is reasonable when it comes to Wild Boar-you just want to collect money and don't want to be responsible?

Liu Tan:? ? ?

collect money?Whoever collects the money, the tax is also for Liu Ku, and he has no intention of using Liu Ku's money!He raised Liu Ku with his own money.

Liu Tan was furious, feeling that his father was becoming more and more unreasonable.

When he was very angry, he took out Liu Ju's letter and read it, and found that the letter was indeed written by Liu Ju, but it was probably instigated by Liu Che.

The premise is that there were a lot of problems on the border of Yan State before. Since the border entry and exit of the northern border country was very strict, and strategic materials were not transported, most people started to go from Yan State.

As a result, the border city of Yan State is really mixed with fish and dragons, let alone law and order, it is difficult for the local people to live in peace and quiet, and things like murder and extortion happen from time to time, and now those ordinary people who want to live in peace have moved away, those Basically, the rest of the city are the people who fight fiercely and commit crimes.

Because of this confusion, the Huns also began to deploy there.

Liu Tan's northern border country has strict guards, but it can't stand the fact that the Huns have already started embedding threads here.

Every country in the northern border can catch fine work, let alone Yan country.

Liu Che also sent a lot of people to rectify there before, but the problem is that those cities do not belong to the same county. The county guards may have the same position, but their ideas are not consistent, resulting in different policies.

Even if Liu Che stipulates what to do, these people have their own methods in the process of execution.

Under such circumstances, it is difficult to achieve unity. Every city has loopholes. Even if the city is not good, the large wasteland between the cities will not be able to stop others.

The news of Liu Che's disappearance was leaked from there before. After finding out, Liu Che became a little angry, and directly sent an embroidered clothes envoy to punish him, but he did not expect that several embroidered clothes envoys were also folded over there.

The Embroidered Clothes Envoys are all espionage talents carefully cultivated by Liu Che. Since their establishment, they have not suffered much for so many years. These people represent the emperor. Liu Tan is very polite to them, and usually fights and fights, but in Liu Tan's place, they are treated the best.

Under such circumstances, almost all the embroidered emissaries sent were wiped out, and Liu Che's anger can be imagined.

As a result, the emperor was angry with the emperor, and those people still went their own way, as if the emperor was far away. Liu Che saw that the people who could be sent there were not capable, and those who were capable could not be sent over, so he focused his attention on Liu Tan.

In fact, it wasn’t a whim that Liu Che asked Liu Tan to take charge of Yan’s government affairs. He had this idea before Liu Tan left Chang’an, but he never told Liu Tan, because he knew that even if he told him, his son would not agree. And it's not just his son's problem, but also needs to be discussed with the courtiers.

Contrary to what Liu Tan thought, the ministers of the central government were not so resistant to this matter.

First of all, the problem of Yan State is indeed very serious and needs to be dealt with. Who might be an official in Chang'an would want to go to that poor place?

Even ambitious people have to think about it, the embroidered clothes envoys are all folded there, what if they are gone in the past?They are definitely not as powerful as the Embroidered Clothes Emissary.

It is good to have a ready-made human-top tank now. The most important thing is that the northern border country is developing rapidly. Last year, it was even able to pay some taxes to the center. Although it is not particularly large, at least I can see the money.

You must know that before the king of the north passes, those places will be tax-free.

The situation of the Yan Kingdom is similar to that of the Northern Border Kingdom. They also hope that the King of the Northern Border can take care of the Yan Kingdom and ease the financial pressure on the central government.

According to the new Da Si Nong, many people no longer worship Qian Tong but worship the King of the Northern Territory.

There is even a portrait of Qian Tong and the King of the North becoming one gradually.

Because of this, there is not much resistance to this matter.

Anyway, the King of the Northern Territory is also a temporary successor, so he won't be able to become successful in a short period of time. As for after a long time... As King Yan grows up, there will be a lot of tricks that can be done at that time, and it is very good now.

After Liu Tan put down Liu Ju's letter, he sighed tiredly. He really didn't expect Yan Guo to be in such a mess before.

Lu Xuan looked at his frowning and couldn't help but touched his face and said, "Don't worry so much, if it doesn't work, we'll advance..."

"Don't, don't, come according to the original plan."

Liu Tan knew that what Lu Xuan wanted to say was to launch a war in advance, but after thinking about it, Liu Tan thought that the army was not well-trained, and even many of them were recruits, so dragging them to the battlefield like this would basically mean death.

It was their business that everyone did this before, and Liu Tan would definitely not do it.

Moreover, he is not so resistant to letting him manage the border city on the other side of Yan State, because it is said that it is divided into Yan State and Northern Border State, but in fact this line is connected.

The chaos in the country of Yan can still affect the northern border country, especially Yanmen County. Liu Tan has been paying attention to Yanmen County before, but there is no good way.

You have done too much, the governor of Daijun once said that the king of the northern border is beggar-thy-neighbor, but he feels aggrieved if he doesn't do it.

It's better now, Liu Tan can make drastic changes.

The only thing he cares about is the candidate for Prime Minister of Yan State.

It's just that the Prime Minister of the Yan Kingdom didn't seem to be selected so far. After Liu Tan mentioned this matter at the Xiaochao meeting, he couldn't help thinking for a while and said, "Do you think it is possible for you to serve concurrently?"

After all, if new officials are elected, the first thing Liu Tan has to do is to get in touch with these people for a certain period of time. It is basically impossible to get started with government affairs quickly.

It would be much easier if Liu Tan's subordinates were directly assigned to serve concurrently. Everyone could learn from the previous part of their experience, and they would be able to operate smoothly without Liu Tan's extra arrangements.

After Liu Tan said this, everyone except Huo Guang showed panic: This is unnecessary, right?

Even Huo Guang's expression changed slightly, it's just that he has always been able to stabilize his emotions, and the expression is not so obvious.

It is said that with great ability comes great responsibility, but now everyone feels that even if they are not overloaded, they are almost the same, and they can't manage so many places.

Huo Guang took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty would not order such an order, otherwise, how can the Yan Kingdom and the Northern Border Kingdom be separated in the future?"

Liu Tan was originally trying to scare them, and after hearing this sentence, he said, "I just hope to have a similar national prime minister, and the others should not be too far behind, otherwise I won't be able to handle it."

However, in fact, the Prime Minister of the State of Yan chose an unknown person-Dou Sibo.

When Liu Tan saw this surname, his expression became serious subconsciously. Although the surname Dou in the world may not be related to Empress Xiaowen, it is always right to be careful.

So Liu Tan immediately asked someone to pull out his file, and it turned out that he really had something to do with Empress Xiaowen—he was the younger brother of Empress Xiaowen, the queen of Zhang Wuhou Dou Shaojun.

And Zhang Wuhou Dou Shaojun is Dou Sibo's great-grandfather, and Dou Sibo's grandfather is Dou Shaojun's concubine.

Dou Shaojun also had a rough life experience. He was once kidnapped and sold so that he became a slave. Later, he was found by his sister after she became a queen.

After Dou Shaojun was found, the ministers became vigilant—the disaster of the Lu family had just passed, and the sight of the queen's brother was simply a psychological shadow.

So Jiang Hou Zhou Bo and Guan Fu wrote a letter stating that the two brothers were born in a humble background and did not understand etiquette and knowledge, so they could not be granted official positions.

Therefore, the Dou family has always been inferior to other empresses' natal families, but most of the empress' natal families that were so prestigious back then have disappeared, and although the Dou family is still not visible, it can be selected by Liu Che as the prime minister of the country of Yan. Should also have some skills.

Liu Tan took a closer look at this person's resume, and found that this person was actually a little bit like Huo Guang in strict terms, that is, he was stable enough.

It's just that Huo Guang's prudence is to plan before acting. If a matter is not urgent, he is [-]% sure that Huo Guang will do it.

If it is very urgent, then there is a [-]% chance that he will take the risk.

But this was not the case for Dou Sibo. He had also served as a sheriff before. Simply put, if the court did not issue orders, he would basically not engage in any new policies and the like, and he followed the rules very well.

God knows that this kind of person is what Liu Tan can't stand the most. This is more uncomfortable than having a different personality. This is simply a disagreement between the three views.

Seeing that Liu Tan's facial features were almost wrinkled together, Lu Xuan smiled and said, "You don't like this person so much? Then tell Your Majesty to change him."

Liu Tan shook his head and said, "This person has already gone to Chang'an to report on his work, and he will be here soon. If I write to ask for a replacement now, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him."

Lu Xuan was helpless: "You don't like him so much, so why think so much?"

Liu Tan said: "I haven't seen him yet, and it's not that I don't like him, but I'm just worried that things won't go so smoothly in the future."

Lu Xuan knew what he was worried about without asking. After looking at Dou Sibo's resume, he thought for a while and said, "I don't think you need to worry about him being too rigid. Judging from these records, this person just doesn't have any ideas of his own. But as long as someone gives him an order, he can execute it well."

Liu Tan was slightly taken aback, then turned to look at Lu Xuan: "So you mean he will be very obedient?"

Lu Xuan nodded: "Your Majesty will not choose someone who will fight against you. The country of Yan is so complicated. If the Prime Minister of the country of Yan is not obedient, even you will not be able to deal with the country of Yan."

Liu Tan thought about it too, Liu Che probably wouldn't trick him like this.

In addition to Yan Guoguo, Liu Che directly let go of the appointment of other officials to Liu Tan.

Liu Tan didn't bother, and directly brought back the group of people under King Yan.

That is to say, in the current Yan Kingdom, apart from the change of the title of the King of Yan and the change of the Prime Minister of the State of Yan, the rest of the people basically did not change much.

Most of those who were called back were very grateful to Liu Tan.

The crime committed by the former King Yan was treason. Even if they have evidence to prove that they did not participate, everything was done by King Yan himself. But as officials of Yan State, they can persuade King Yan. The king did such a big thing without saying a word, and they didn't know it at all?

So each of them was severely punished. It is thankful that some people were able to save their lives, and they never thought that there would be a day when they would be able to return to their posts.

These people originally wanted to come to Shuofang County to thank Liu Tan, but Liu Tan refused, and he also sent a letter to Dou Sibo, telling him not to come to Shuofang County, but to go directly to the capital of Yan Kingdom.

Speaking of which, for Liu Tan, the capital city of Yan Kingdom can be regarded as revisiting his old place, even though this old place is thousands of years later.

The current capital of the Yan Kingdom is called Jicheng. This name may be unfamiliar to later generations, or it may be considered to be Jixian County near Tianjin Wei in later generations. However, in this era, this name refers to the famous Beijing city in later generations.