Dahan first prince

Chapter 312
Under the persuasion of the internal historian, Liu Feizong was reluctant, but in order to save his life, he could only nod and accepted the internal historian's proposal.

But in the bedroom of Weiyang Palace, the emperor Liu Ying sat opposite his younger brother Liu Heng, and chuckled from time to time during the conversation.

Regarding the elder brother Liu Fei being "slaughtered" by his old mother Lu Zhi, Liu Ying naturally has no objection.

It is exactly as Lu Zhi said: Liu Fei's territory is really too big...
How much territory does the Han Dynasty have in total?
——In the whole world, including Bashu, Guanzhong, and Kanto, and even the three Lingnan countries of Nanyue, Minyue, and Donghai, there are only 54 counties!
And among these 54 counties, the Qi State of Qi King Liu Fei alone occupies six counties!

You must know that when Liu Bang, the first emperor who joined forces to destroy Qin, was named King of Han by Xiang Yu, his territory was only more than forty cities in the three counties of Ba, Shu, and Hanzhong!
In comparison, the current 73 cities in the six counties of Qidi are indeed a bit outrageous.

It is true that if you look at it only from the perspective of area, there are many vassal states in the Han Dynasty that can rival Qi.

For example, occupying the entire northeast corner of the territory of the Han Dynasty, the large Yan Kingdom with an area of ​​two Qi Kingdoms;

Dai and Zhao, which are located in the north of the Han Dynasty and whose area is no smaller than Qi, and the Three Kingdoms of Changsha in the south of the Han Dynasty;
And Wu and Chu, which are only a circle smaller than Qi, or Huainan, which is far more than twice the size of Qi.

But the crux of the problem lies here.

——Huainan State, which is twice as large as Qi State, has more than [-] cities in the four counties of Jiujiang, Hengshan, Lujiang, and Yuzhang, and its population is only half of that of Qi State!
Yan State, which is also twice the size of Qi State, has seven counties including Liaodong, Liaoxi, Youbeiping, Yuyang, Shanggu, Zhuo, and Bohai, but its population is less than one-third of Qi State!

Not to mention Dai, Zhao, and Changsha, which are similar in size to Qi.

The Dai country is bitterly cold, the land is bad, and even the tax on straw and hay only needs to pay two-thirds. After excluding the border guards, the population is less than one-tenth of that of Qi!

It is no exaggeration to say: In every ten living people in the country of Dai, there will only be two peasants and one traveling merchant; the remaining seven must be soldiers.

Although the state of Zhao is better, it is only because it is not directly bordered by the grassland, but also adjacent to the state of Qi; and the population of the state of Zhao is less than half of that of Qi.

Changsha Kingdom has been a place of "damp miasma" since ancient times; officials transferred to Changsha, six out of ten will die in Changsha.

As for Wu and Chu, their area is not much smaller than that of Qi, but their population is less than half of that of Qi, especially Wu, whose population is even less than a quarter of that of Qi...
In this way, the reason for saying that Qi State's territory is too wide is obvious.

——Liu Fei's Qi State, the area is only [-]% of the entire Kanto region, half of the entire Han Dynasty territory, but it has one-ninth of the county and county-level administrative units in the world, and more than one-sixth of the Kanto region s population!
In today's world, there are nearly 200 million households and more than 30 million people in the Kanto region, and Qi State alone has more than 200 households and a population of nearly [-] million!
With such a high population density, the land is evenly aligned with the sea, and the territory is full of hills. The land available for cultivation cannot support such a large population at all.

Therefore, in order to feed these more than 200 million mouths, Qi State needs to import a large amount of grain from Guanzhong.

What do the people of Qi do for a living?

The answer is: trade, transportation, and handicrafts and manufacturing.

The world-famous Qiwan, Qiyan, and Qidi merchants with footprints all over the world support the gdp of the entire Qi State, and feed the population of more than 200 million in Qidi without any effort.

Coupled with Qi's superior geographical location, Qi's businessmen took advantage of the transportation routes to sell their handicrafts to every corner of the world, thereby reaping huge profits.

Liu Ying even heard that, as the king of Qi's elder brother, Liu Fei, he could receive various taxes worth nearly three thousand gold every year just from the hands of merchants entering and leaving Linzi city!

—Three thousand pieces of gold!

You must know that the current Shaofu's internal funds and gold reserves are only seven thousand gold!

Such a huge and continuous wealth naturally made Liu Ying extremely jealous.

As a later generation, Liu Ying didn't feel much about Qi's strange situation of almost completely abandoning agriculture and focusing on business.

——Some places are suitable for farming, and some places are suitable for building factories. Naturally, there are also areas that rely on geographical location and rely on commerce to survive.

Qi State is the oriental pearl of the Han Dynasty today.

But even so, it didn't affect Liu Ying in the slightest to put aside her face and take part of Qi's commercial interests into the central government of the court by dismembering Qi.

As for the reason, it is so righteous that it is impossible to refute it: only provide blessings, only provide prestige, only provide jade food, and ministers have no blessings and prestige jade food.

——You are a vassal king, but you hold such a huge wealth, what do you want to do?
This is nothing more than the principle that everyone is innocent, but pregnant is guilty.

For the reborn Liu Ying, the possibility of "Qi Wang Liu Fei rebelling" is naturally equal to zero;

But for the Central Committee of the Han Dynasty, whether Liu Fei will rebel or whether he wants to rebel is not important at all; the important thing is: Liu Fei, who now holds Qi in his hand, does have the ability to raise troops to rebel to a certain extent. Strength.

Therefore, in order to ensure the center of the court and maintain the overall crushing of any vassal state in any aspect, Qi Wang Liu Fei must bear the pain to cut his flesh.

For this point, Liu Ying has a clear understanding;
In addition to this matter, it was my old lady Lu Zhi who took the initiative, and Liu Ying was happy to stand by and watch, so as not to get the infamy of "treating her brother harshly".

As for the current king, Liu Heng, who sat in front of Liu Ying in a regular manner and responded from time to time, his situation was different from that of Qi Wang Liu Fei.

——Liu Fei's problem is that the country is too large, the population is too large, and it is too rich; while Liu Heng's country is too small and too poor.

In addition, Dai State is located on the northern border and directly borders on the grassland, especially Liu Heng, who is the oldest prince king among the three northern vassal states of Yan, Dai, and Zhao, which makes Liu Heng become Liu Ying. Someone who needs a lot of attention.

There is no way: Liu Chang, King of Yan, is only three years old, and even if he is six years old, it will take at least three years;
As for Zhao Wang Liu Jian, he is the youngest among the sons of the former emperor Liu Bang, and he has just learned to walk!

King Yan is still wearing crotch pants, King Zhao has not yet been weaned, and last year, the Han Dynasty just sent a fake princess to the Xiongnu to marry, making Liu Heng the only "brother" that Liu Ying can rely on.

In order to stabilize the northern line of defense, and to create a positive image of "brothers and brothers", Liu Ying needs to help Liu Heng to improve the situation in Daiguo as soon as possible.

Because making Dai Guo stronger as soon as possible can not only make the northern defense line more stable, but also allow Liu Ying to clear up the suspicion of treating her elder brother Liu Fei and younger brother Liu Ruyi a little bit harshly.

Thinking of this, Liu Ying didn't beat around the bush anymore, took a sip of hangover soup, and got straight to the point.

"During the time when Emperor Taizu was still alive, Dai Wang was more than half a year old. As far as Dai is concerned, should we already know about it?"

Hearing Liu Ying's question, Liu Heng's rather plain face couldn't help turning a little serious, and he spoke seriously before bowing his hand to Liu Ying solemnly.

"Your Majesty."

"Since I belonged to the state of Jin, I didn't dare to bear the trust of the emperor Taizu. I followed the day and night with the prime minister, Yanglinghou, and ruled the country with wisdom."

"The minister is still young, and he respects and teaches with the generation, and there are still many things that are unclear about the matter of the minister..."

Hearing Liu Heng's words, Liu Ying waved her hands carelessly, with a relaxed expression on her face.

"You don't have to be so formal, just be honest."

"——What is wrong with the current generation of the country, or is there a problem that is hard to solve?"

"And on behalf of the northern wall, what help do I need to stop the Huns from going outside the pass?"

Hearing this, Liu Heng's expression froze for a moment, and he looked at Liu Ying with hesitation for a moment.

After confirming that Liu Ying's words did not mean to be probing, Liu Heng raised his head cautiously.

"The affairs of the country are all decided by the Prime Minister, and the ministers don't know much about it."

"As for your Majesty's question, I have heard Xiangguo say that..."

Unobtrusively putting on the attitude of 'I've never cared about anything', the hesitant look on Liu Heng's brow showed a slight tendency to ease.

"Xiangguo once said: The land is evil, the water is scarce, and the people are suffering. If farming alone, the people will not be able to eat enough;"

"Also, there are very few civilian households and insufficient agricultural production, so the land tax on Dai is not enough for the soldiers guarding the north wall."

"Since the minister is in the country, the prime minister will talk a lot to persuade the widow to spend all kinds of frugality in the palace, and don't be extravagant."

"Even so, in the next few years, every generation of soldiers on the northern wall will have enough food..."

After saying that, Liu Heng, the only nine-year-old generation king, frowned quietly. Although he still had the body of a young Erlang, his expression did not reveal the immaturity of a child at all.

"A year ago, the Xiangguo once said that he had asked the Emperor Taizu to move the North Wall to guard the soldiers. The eldest wife was younger than Dai's land. One is to be the people of Dai's land, and the other is to slow down the North Wall to think about family affection."

"However, at that time, Emperor Taizu was seriously ill and was lying on the couch, and passed away last year. This matter was never mentioned by Xiangguo..."

Hearing this remark, Liu Ying also turned her face back a little relaxed, and nodded her head with a sigh.

This is the problem the country is facing today.

——The geographical location directly borders on the grassland, so that the northern border of Dai Kingdom must guarantee a garrison force of more than 5 people all year round, so as to ensure the stability of the side wall!

However, the seriously insufficient population in the country and the insufficient agricultural tax caused by the barren land made it impossible for the country to support such a large border defense force.

Therefore, as early as four years ago, when Lu Ze, Marquis of Zhou Lvling, died in battle in Daibei, and Liu Xi, the acting king, was demoted to Marquis of Heyang, the garrison force on the northern border of Dai Kingdom was basically directly supported by the Chang'an court.

However, the armed forces of the vassal states were supplied by the central government, which brought new problems to the central government.

—— Tens of thousands of armed forces, all of which are in charge of logistics and supply by the court, no matter how you think about it, it feels weird!

Sure enough, just one year after becoming Prime Minister of the Dai State and taking full control of the army and horses of the Dai State, the Prime Minister Chen Xi rebelled against Dai and Zhao;

The tens of thousands of soldiers and horses who were used to guard the Daibei wall and were directly supported by the Chang'an Central Committee also became the backbone of Chen Xi's rebellion.

As a result, the issue of Daiguo has become extremely difficult.

——If left alone, Daiguo can't afford to support tens of thousands of horses. As long as the Huns go south, Daiguo will inevitably be galloped by Hu Qi!
But if the central government takes the blood transfusion, these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are very likely to become a force for rebellion by the soldiers in charge, thus forming a weird situation where the soldiers of the Dai State "rushed into Chang'an eating the emperor's rations and pulled the emperor off the imperial couch".

Regardless of whether it is true or not, the issue of Daiguo has always been a headache for the Chang'an court, including the prime minister Xiao He, and the former emperor Liu Bang.

In the end, Chang'an Chaotang thought of a compromise.

——For the armed forces deployed by Daiguo on the northern border, the Chang'an Central Committee neither completely ignores nor is fully responsible; instead, it supplies half of the military rations on a monthly basis.

In this way, Daiguo's garrison troops deployed on the north wall can get half-full rations from the central government;

As for Dai Guo, he was already unable to support such an armed force, and if he went to the top of the sky, he would add another [-]%.

In this way, the soldiers of the Daibei Garrison can eat [-]% of their fill on average, and they will not die of starvation, and they will not have the strength to go south to seek rebellion.

Coupled with Zhao Wang's "controlling the soldiers and horses of the three kingdoms of Yan, Dai, and Zhao" as a restraint, the problem of Dai was finally resolved better.

But today is different from the past. For the current Han Dynasty and the Han-Hungarian strategic structure in the next few years, it is no longer feasible to continue to let the soldiers of the Dai Kingdom only eat [-]% of their fill.

Last year, the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun wrote a letter of credence, which has undoubtedly revealed the Xiongnu's malice towards the Han Dynasty during the period of "lordship and suspicion";

Although the Han Dynasty temporarily bought peace with a humble attitude, a false princess, and thousands of stones and various materials, but without a fight, the Han and Hungarians may not be able to return to the time of the first emperor Liu Bang. The default is relative peace of 'no big battles, but constant small battles'.

In other words: as early as the end of this year, as late as the beginning of next year, there must be a battle between the Han and the Hungarians!
Although this battle is not a large-scale battle of decisive battle level, it is also a fierce battle for the Huns to test the Han Dynasty and the new king Liu Ying!
In order to cope with this battle, and in order to make the side wall more stable in the future, and to be more confident in the face of the Huns, the situation of Dai Kingdom has reached the point where it must be completely resolved.

Using the clan relative Liu Heng as the acting king, and the "Lu Party" Fu Kuan as the acting prime minister, it can be regarded as minimizing the possibility of "rebelling against Ge on behalf of the country".

Next, it should be to enrich the border defense force of the country, and from a long-term perspective, in order to strengthen the comprehensive strength of the country, immigrants will strengthen the border.

Liu Ying should have discussed this matter directly with Prime Minister Fu Kuan, and the decision was made by the Queen Mother Lu Zhi.

But in order to respect her younger brother, the nominal leader of the country, Liu Ying still decided to listen to his younger brother Liu Heng's opinion.

Of course, Liu Heng's reaction did not surprise Liu Ying at all.

——These matters, the younger brother can't take the lead, Your Majesty should go to discuss with Xiangguo, and ask the Queen Mother for instructions by the way.

After receiving a satisfactory answer, Liu Ying exchanged some polite words with her younger brother Liu Heng, and finally sent Liu Heng out of the palace.

But after Liu Heng left, Liu Ying didn't fall asleep immediately.

Because in Xuanshi Hall, Empress Dowager Lu Zhi was also discussing these matters with Liu Heng's mother, Mrs. Bo.

According to the previous agreement, Liu Ying still needs to wait for her mother's call...
　The first update today, the second update, and the third update for debt repayment.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)