The big man has a living father

Chapter 223 (Big Chapter) A New Era
Several people looked at each other. It was not that they did not want to go to Kuaiji to find the court officials.

But can't.

The story begins in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The descendants of Gou Jian, King of Yue, have always been the rulers of Yue. They are older than the nobles of the six kingdoms and are the nobles of the Spring and Autumn Period.

This family's surname is Zuo, the same as Zou.

After the Qin Dynasty unified China, it took back the title of King of Yue, and King Zou Wujiang of Yue became an ordinary nobleman.

But after Liu Bang took over the world, in order to quickly stabilize the country, he gave the less important "poor mountains and bad waters" in the marginal areas to the old nobles of the time.

To the unrestrained Liu Bang, these insignificant areas were indeed not worth mobilizing troops for. After all, the country was exhausted after a series of wars.

This also led to the entire undeveloped southern coastal area becoming the land of Baiyue, independent of the Han Dynasty.

From some perspectives, the largest of the Hundred Yue, Nanyue, was conquered by the Zhao family. They conquered the then Xiou, changed its name to Nanyue, and pretended to be Yue people.

The Zou family is the real descendant of King Gou Jian of Yue.

However, although the Han Dynasty did not take back this place, it was only because it did not want to send troops casually, which did not mean that it would leave these places alone.

The King of Yue at that time did not leave any edict, so two Yue countries emerged.

One is Min Yue and the other is Dong Yue.

The Minyue were still the Zou clan, and at that time people did not talk about surnames but clan names. This aristocratic family inherited from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty followed the old rules. The second son looked for an allusion in history about the King of Chu enfeoffing his family members in Dongou Mountain at the end of the Warring States Period, and changed their surname to Ouyang. The Dongyue Kingdom was then renamed the Donghai Kingdom, with its capital in Dongou. Because it was geographically symmetrical with Xiou, which was replaced by Nanyue, one was west of Minyue and the other was east of Minyue, so it was also called the Dongou Kingdom.

From then on, Minyue and Dongou Kingdom began to be passed down.

Until Liu Che came to power.

As soon as Emperor Wu of Han came to power, he tried his hand at the Dong'ou Kingdom.

As soon as Liu Che's evil hand came out, in the third year of Jianyuan (138 BC), the King of Minyue, Ying, sent troops to besiege the capital of Dong'ou, and King Zhenfu of Dong'ou was killed in the battle. Emperor Wu of Han sent the senior official Yan Zhu to send troops from Kuaiji to assist the new king of Dong'ou, Zou Wang, to repel the army of Minyue. Zou Wang was afraid of a counterattack from Minyue, so he requested the Han Dynasty to move the entire country of Dong'ou to the territory of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of Han agreed and ordered Zou Wang (Ouyang Wang) to lead more than people to the north to Kuaiji County, and was named Guangwu Marquis by Emperor Wu of Han.

However, the situation in Baiyue did not stabilize.

In the sixth year of Jianyuan, Zou Ying sent troops to attack Nanyue, causing the Han army to approach. His brother Zou Yushan took the opportunity to kill Ying and presented his head to the Han army. Emperor Wu then issued an edict to withdraw the army and made Wuzhu's grandson Yao Junchou the King of Yue Yao. Later, Yushan was made the King of Dongyue, and the two kings coexisted.

Therefore, the original Yue Kingdom was divided into four branches.

They are Nanyue which was annexed by Zhao.

The Ouyang family has already returned to Han.

King Zou Jugu of Yueyao (son of Zou Chou).

King Zou Yushan of Dongyue.

Now, Nanyue has surrendered to Han. Minyue and Dongyue are anxious.

Even the remaining forces of the Donghai Kingdom, which had been resisting the King of Dongyue, became anxious.

Even South Vietnam couldn’t withstand the Han’s attack, so how could they?
Therefore, they were eager to surrender to the Han.

After all, there is the example of the Ouyang family.

In fact, after the fall of the Donghai Kingdom of the Ouyang family, their life was miserable. However, they surrendered with 40,000 people and were awarded the title of Marquis of Guangwu. Now they are living a good life.

Not only now, but also in the future, people like Ouyang Xiu and Ouyang Xun will leave their names in history and become very famous surnames in the entire region, and also the strongest among the Chinese compound surnames.

Huo Hai's guess was correct. The Yue people prefer double-character surnames in their accent because they are easier to pronounce, while single-character surnames are not so smooth.

Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, new learning was popular, and as more and more educated people understood the importance of surnames, many people began to pursue surnames.

In Chang'an, various talents were given surnames by Emperor Liu Che's grace, for example, the commander of the imperial carriage, Du, was given the surname Li.

The Yue State naturally followed suit, and several Yue kings also conferred surnames.

Chiyo, Aragaki and Kitano are typical examples of Chinese surnames used in Vietnam.

After listening to this, Huo Hai understood the origin of their surname.

If this is the case, then in the future some Yue people went to Ryukyu, and these Han surnames changed from Han surnames to Yue surnames and then to Ryukyu surnames.

Huo Hai suddenly realized that when he first heard their surnames, he thought they were Japanese surnames. It seems that people with these surnames are not of Japanese descent.

However, while they were talking, Huo Hai also sorted out the reasons why they came to him.

There were three chief officials in Kuaiji County.

A county governor, a general of the Southern Naval Base, and a minister of Yangtze River Shipping.

If I go to pay a visit, he will definitely be received by the county magistrate.

The position of county magistrate was far lower in rank than Zou Yushan and Zou Jugu, so they naturally did not want to look for the county magistrate.

Lubod?
After Lu Bode came to power, he has never been to Kuaiji County. How can we find him?

Minister of Yangtze River Shipping?

A young man under 20 years old who just took office?
So, they chose to come to Panyu, now Guangdong Prefecture, to find Huo Hai.

Hand over the enclosed letter and ask for negotiation.

Neither Zou Yushan nor Zou Jugu were like Zhao Yingqi. They knew the Han Dynasty very well.

If they could, they would have voted long ago.

But why negotiate terms?

the reason is simple.

The Yue Kingdom, whether it was Min Yue or Dong Yue, was good at iron smelting, military training, textiles, shipbuilding, pottery making, and transportation.

What the Huo family is doing now was once done by Min Yue!
How strong were they? In Fujian, a place with mountains everywhere and little arable land, the rich could defeat Donghai Kingdom (Zhejiang) and then Nanyue Kingdom (Yue, Jiao) within three years. What a concept!
It’s like the people of Shenmu spent three years attacking Shanxi first and then Guanzhong.

So, although they want to invest, they definitely want to negotiate better terms.

But Huo Hai really didn't want to discuss this condition with them.

After hearing this, Huo Hai refused: "You can send the letter to Chang'an, hand it over to His Majesty, and talk to His Majesty."

As soon as these words came out, the three of them looked at each other.

If Huo Hai agrees to the conditions, he will be able to conquer such a large area of ​​land, with a coastline stretching for thousands of kilometers.

This achievement simply surpassed the Spring and Autumn Period and swept across the Warring States Period. He will surely be the most watched hero in history.

Is there really anyone who can resist such temptation?

It’s not a question of whether to accept the conditions, but rather refusing to negotiate and directly asking them to find another way.

Qian Daijiang bowed his head and said, "Lord Wu Hou, my king is very sincere and is definitely not false!"

"We in Minyue currently have a population of over 500,000, which is more than ten times the population of Guangwuhou before!"

Huo Hai nodded: "I know you have a lot of people, and I know you are very sincere, but you have found the wrong person. I am not here to be an imperial envoy, nor am I here to be an envoy."

Hearing what Huo Hai said, Qian Daijiang became anxious: "Lord Wu Hou! We Minyue people are proficient in iron smelting, pottery making, textiles, shipping, and shipbuilding. And these are exactly the most powerful industries of the Huo family."

"As long as Lord Wu Hou waved his hand, more than 500,000 of us citizens can become workers of the Huo family."

"Sir, we are more than 500,000 people, but there are as many as 200,000 of us who can work in these industries!"

This is indeed fierce.

Even in Chang'an today, the number of workers in steelmaking, ceramics, textiles, and shipping is no more than 500,000 or 600,000.

Chengdu, which has been developed for so long, has a population of only 300,000 at most, and Luoyang definitely does not have 200,000 people working in these industries. It would be great if there are at most 100,000.

Wancheng has less than 50,000.

If Huo Hai needs it, he just needs to take over Minyue, recruit 200,000 skilled workers, and plan industries. Within five years, there will be a new Chang'an.

It is even possible that a megacity will be born and directly replace the modern magic city of the previous life.

But Huo Hai was not interested.

Because wherever Huo Hai takes over, he can achieve the same results, except that the workers will have to work harder in the first one or two years.

Huo Hai: "I do want people, but this is not my job here."

Huo Hai: "My son is about to be born. Since it has nothing to do with me, I won't talk about it any more."

After saying that, Huo Hai left.

Chiyoe, the most confident representative of Min Yue, had no chance to say a word. Aragaki Nobuyuki and Kitano Kaito had far fewer cards in their hands than Chiyoe, so they couldn't say anything.

After Huo Hai left, the three of them looked at each other in disbelief.

Even if the Han Dynasty is now prosperous and its fighting power far exceeds that of before, it is not necessary to refuse directly.

To put it bluntly, even if someone eats big meals every day, if someone gives them a wild yellow croaker, how could anyone refuse it?

Could it be that he doesn't know the big yellow croaker?
Doesn't Huo Wuhou look like someone who doesn't know what a big yellow croaker is? !

After Huo Hai left, Shang Fu was also confused: "Sir, I don't understand politics, but if you accept Minyue, it will be a hundred benefits and no harm!"

"Why do you refuse?"

Huo Hai: "There are too many advantages, but there are also disadvantages, do you understand?"

Shang Fu didn't understand.

This is actually very easy to understand.

The people of Nanyue, Minyue and Donghai have been separated for many years.

If Huo Hai agreed to them at this time, would Huo Hai go to Min Yue and open a new city?
Not worth it. Huo Hai’s current industrial layout focuses on the Red River Delta and the Pearl River Delta.

So, how to utilize these populations?

Just migrate them here.

The ancient Yue people of Nanyue had finally separated from the Donghai people and the Fujian people. Now that they all migrated together, wouldn't they have merged into the Yue people again?
In today's Nanhai Prefecture, the proportion of pure Yue people is only 10,000.

As long as it is handled properly, within ten years, there will no longer be any ancient Yue people, and only the Han people from the Nanhai Inspectorate will remain.

If we allow the Yue people to reorganize as a whole now, and make their population almost one to one with the local Han people.

What's the ending?
There are 500,000 people in Minyue, hundreds of thousands of people in Donghai Kingdom, and the local Yue people, which makes another hundreds of thousands of people.

By then, the local Han people with ancient Yue ancestry will also have to regard themselves as Yue people for the sake of convenience in their lives.

After a long time, the concept of Yue people appeared again and became the first ethnic group in the Nanhai Provincial Administration.

At that time, the Nanhai Provincial Administration had already become the resource base for the entire Han Dynasty's great maritime movement.

Does it fit?

Not suitable.

Therefore, taking advantage and getting all the benefits is equivalent to losing everything!
Winning is losing, losing is winning.

Huo Hai did not talk to them, but let the people in the court talk about it themselves. So where would these people go?
The Min Yue people, who are good at sailing and work as workers, will go to the coast of the Yangtze River to participate in the construction of Yangtze River shipping and the construction of Kuaiji County.

They had been separated from the Yue people for a hundred years, so it was easy for them to return to the embrace of the Han people as they had done in history and quickly become the backbone of the Yangtze River coast in the south.

What about the people of Donghai who are good at farming in hilly and mountainous areas?
Nowadays, cash crops such as lacquer are being widely planted in the south, but there is a lack of population.

They could be spread out along the entire southern coast.

With their participation, Yangzhou, which has almost no population density, will quickly become a new economic growth point.

Historically, if it weren't for the Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, the South would not have been taken into consideration because the population was too small.

And now, there is an immediate opportunity to change this situation. With the prosperity of inland shipping, within thirty years, the population of Yangzhou, which has taken in the Min Yue and Donghai people, will swell to more than 10 million and quickly occupy the Yangtze River coast.

This is far better than Huo Hai accepting them and then moving them to the Red River Delta.

Huo Hai did not accept their letter of credence, and they were confused.

Soon, Xinyuan Xin thought of a way and asked the locals.

Aragaki Nobuyuki soon found a suitable person.

Huang Tong.

Huang Tong is a former big shot in the Nanyue army and now a general in the Nanhai Inspectorate. He is a Han official but has just converted. In addition, it is said that Zhao Yingqi messed around some time ago, which made life very difficult for them in the army.

Now as long as I pay the money, Huang Tong will definitely be able to help.

Soon, the three of them invited Huang Tong to dinner.

When Huang Tong heard that someone was inviting him to dinner, he went straight to Yuelai Restaurant and had a big meal.

During the dinner, Xin Yuanxin talked about this matter: "Brother Huang, hundreds of years ago we were considered a family, this favor..."

Huang Tong: "Stop, stop! What family? Geographically, I am from Nanhai and you are from Donghai. In terms of nationality, I am from Dahan and you are from Donghai. We are not one family."

Xin Yuanxin thought quickly: "We are now talking about submission. After we, the Donghai people, submit, won't we also be Han people? We are all Han people, and we all lived in Dong'ou hundreds of years ago. How can we say that we are not one family?"

Huang Tong looked Xin Yuanxin up and down and asked, "Why do you say your last name is Xin Yuan?"

Aragaki Nobuyuki didn't know what happened to his last name and was stunned for a moment.

Huang Tong: "Look at me, my last name is Huang, and you can tell I'm Han Chinese. What would people say about you, your last name is Xinyuan?"

Xin Yuanxin was puzzled: "Isn't Xin Yuan also a Chinese surname?"

Huang Tong: "You really don't know, right? Several decades ago, there was a Taoist priest named Xin Yuanping who defrauded Emperor Wen and was executed along with his entire clan. Since then, Xin Yuan's lineage in the Han family has been cut off."

"Once you mention this last name, people will know you are from Yue. Change it. Otherwise, who would dare to claim to be from the same family as you five hundred years ago?"

Aragaki Nobuyuki and the other two looked at each other.

They really don't know about this.

Huang Tong looked at Chiyoe and Kitano Kaito: "Don't look at him, you are the same. The surnames you chose are all extinct surnames in Zhongyuan. It's better not to have a surname. When you arrive in Zhongyuan, people will know you are new here at a glance."

Xin Yuanxin scratched his head: "But, one branch of our family has gone to sea. If we change our surnames, I'm afraid we won't recognize each other when we meet again in the future."

Huang Tong leaned closer to Xin Yuanxin and asked: "Do you really want to surrender to Han?"

Xin Yuanxin gritted his teeth and said: "Then I will change it to Huang."

Xinyuan Xin's accent is exactly the same as Wang and Huang.

Huang Tong: "Wang is a good surname. You can have the surname Wang."

Aragaki Nobu: "It's Huang, not Wang."

Huang Tong was puzzled when he heard Xin Yuanxin say "surname Wang, not Wang". "Okay, whatever surname you want, I'll answer your questions since you guys invited me to dinner."

"Why do you think that Marquis Huo Wu needs to personally take care of your affairs?"

"You are just like Sun Wukong held in the palm of Tathagata Buddha's hand. You can't escape from the Five Finger Mountain at all. Is that necessary?"

As a senior general of South Vietnam, Huang Tong was very politically sensitive.

He spoke the truth directly.

You people from the Donghai Kingdom and Minyue have nowhere else to go and can only surrender to the Han Dynasty.

How to arrange it is the Han's business, do you still want to negotiate terms?

The real high-ranking officials of the Han Dynasty are not interested in talking to you at all.

Wang Xin: "But, even if it was Monkey King, Heaven would have sent Taibai Jinxing to call for peace!"

Huang Tong saw that Wang Xin might not understand the rules of the Han officialdom, nor did he know how powerful the Han were, so he said, "Who the hell do you think you are? How dare you compare yourself to Sun Wukong?"

Wang Xin lost his confidence.

Even if the Han Dynasty is as powerful as the Heaven, then Minyue must be at least seven or eight hundred times stronger than the Flower-Fruit Mountain, right?

Huaguo Mountain is a newly established demon regime where the rulers of the mountain take over.

After all, we, the Min Yue, are descendants of the Yue State. We are a great country with a population of 500,000 and have occupied the southern coast for hundreds of years!
Huang Tong glanced at Wang Xin and said, "Have you read Journey to the West? You don't understand Chinese characters very well, so you only understood the general idea, right?"

"You are the only ones who have the nerve to compare yourselves to Sun Wukong and the Flower-Fruit Mountain?"

"The Flower-Fruit Mountain is the pillar of the sky for one day and the root of the earth for eternity." "Do you understand what I mean? In Journey to the West, the world reincarnates once for 129,800 years, and the Jade Emperor has only survived 1,300 disasters. But the Flower-Fruit Mountain is the root of the earth for 10,000 times of world reorganization. Only the Central Plains south of the Yellow River is the root of the earth. Minyue has been a place that has not been disputed by military strategists for thousands of years. Where is Sun Wukong in the Flower-Fruit Mountain?"

"Sun Wukong may seem like an unknown person, but he actually has a very powerful background. That's why people have proposed amnesty, and have done so again and again."

"you?"

"Is it your turn to vote? Hurry up and change direction to report to Kuaiji County. Otherwise, the Han people will blame you for being slow in voting."

Huang Tong was deeply touched.

If you throw slowly, you will be hit by several electric cannons!
Most of the Nanyue officials who had secretly defected to Huo Hai earlier continued to serve as officials of the Nanhai Provincial Governorate, and some of them set off for Chang'an.

And what about yourself?

He surrendered to the South Vietnamese Army too late, so now he has not gained any benefits and his salary has been reduced!
Huang Tong has already received the assigned order.

The imperial court arranged for the surrendered Nanyue Army to be reorganized into the Han Nanhai Army.

Responsible for cooperating with the Han Dynasty's exploration of the seas to the south and west.

And his current task is to take a group of people to explore the natives on the southern islands.

What are those natives? They live in trees and don't even know how to wear clothes. How can we manage them?

This made Huang Tong very uncomfortable.

But Huang Tong also knew that he surrendered too late, which was considered a good thing, because some people in the army were sent to cut trees in the upper reaches of the Red River!
They had to cut down large tracts of trees and transport them to Hekou and Guangdong Prefecture to build official residences. They would also select the best ones and send them to shipyards in the north. They would also send the largest ones to Chang'an for His Majesty's use.

Doesn’t this turn him into a woodcutter?

Don't worry, there are worse things to come. You have to go through the fog in the western mountains and be responsible for maintaining the rule of the natives in the mountains.

Huang Tong did the same job at sea and would return to Guangdong Province in a few days when necessary.

As for those who go through the mountains or on the land, they will never come back once they leave.

However, no one dared to oppose the Han Dynasty's arrangement.

Because in the entire Nanhai Provincial Administration, no one had any objections, and everyone obeyed the emperor. Those who didn't know would think that this place had belonged to the Han Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

No one complained and everyone accepted it. Even those who didn't want to accept it didn't dare to speak out.

I chose it myself.

But I have to choose. If I continue to follow that idiot Zhao Yingqi, I will starve to death.

So, they have no complaints.

But the big man also painted a rosy picture for them.

Although they are going to Myanmar County to open up wasteland, there will be many roads built there in the next few years.

At that time, it will be easy to transport various materials from the wealthy Shu County to the south.

They dared to say this, but Huo Hai didn't dare to listen.

However, after seeing the promise, they chose to believe it because they had no other choice but to believe it.

Just like that, the entire Han Southern Navy was dispersed.

The army in Zhao Yingqi's hands was his confidence in fighting against the Han Dynasty. However, it was dispersed over an area of ​​thousands of kilometers in a short period of time and could not show up at all.

The Guangdong Prefecture and the river mouth were surrounded by Lu Bode's army.

Lu Bode was not idle either.

He is going to Jiangqiong Island.

Qiong Island originally belonged to South Vietnam, but for some unknown reason, they did not surrender like other places in South Vietnam.

With such a big island here, its continued existence means the survival of the Nanyue Kingdom. Zhao Yingqi, the King of Nanyue, has surrendered, so keeping Qiong Island is absolutely not an option.

So Lu Bode wants to take over this place.

But now all the ships are used to transport the South China Navy to establish bases in various places, and there are no ships free.

Therefore, Lu Bode is considering transferring a batch of old warships from Kuaiji County to take over Qiong Island.

The arrangements for the entire Nanhai Provincial Administration have almost been finalized. Liu Che has selected a few people and brought the entire team to replace the chief officer teams of the Nanhai and Jiao counties, and moved the surviving officials of the Nanyue Kingdom who had originally defected to Nanyue to Xiang and Cangwu counties.

These arrangements are normal.

The main thing was to transfer Yang Pu from the north to the river mouth to supervise the military affairs and give advice on business and shipping.

The gap left by Yang Pu was filled by Peng Yi.

Peng Yi was originally a researcher and a doctor, but after running the business for so long, he has gotten used to the power issues. Moreover, all major matters need to be reported to Tian Jue for decision, so he doesn't have many things to deal with and there is no problem for him to replace Yang Pu.

After dealing with the affairs of the Nanhai Provincial Administration, the imperial court did not continue to expand, but chose to suspend the further deployment of internal and external military affairs.

In the past two years, the progress has been so rapid that it cannot be suppressed.

In the Western Regions, after Li Gan finally caught hold of King Youguli, he took over the entire southern part of the Western Regions with an unstoppable force.

Although they were not as brave as Huo Qubing or as steady as Wei Qing, Li Guang and his son were certainly capable men. With their musketeers, they suffered some casualties, but the damage was not great.

During the entire process, 700 people were killed and less than 1,400 were injured.

The reason why the damage was much greater than that of Huo Hai and Huo Qubing was that the countries on the southern line of the Western Regions originally liked to build high walls. After King Youguli came, they managed it for another year, so the walls were even higher.

But in the end, Li Gan couldn't be stopped.

The entire Western Regions are now part of the Han Dynasty's territory.

Going north, starting from Youbeiping, a line was drawn from the coastal area all the way to the Bering Strait, with a stronghold every hundred miles.

A total of four ports were built along the way, namely Jinwu Bay, Vladivostok Bay, Beihai Bay and Tuofeng Bay.

Jinwu Bay was really not the name given by Huo Hai.

Jin means ferry. A few years ago, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established Wuqing Salt Administration in this place. Now it is used as a port. Because it is the only area within the territory of the Han Dynasty among the four places in the north, it is named Jin. The location is just below Beiping.

The place called Haishen Bay is rich in sea cucumbers, but it did not get the name "Wai". The word "Wai" means fishing village or bay in Sushen language.

Why would the imperial court use this word as the name of such an important stronghold? So the word "wan" was used and the name was Haishenwan.

The North Sea Bay is on an island, and this string of islands in the entire East China Sea is within the restricted area established by Yang Pu and his team.

This location is out of the restricted area and no longer belongs to the East China Sea but the North Sea, so it is called Beihai Bay.

Hump ​​Bay is located when going up from the North Bay, you have to avoid a large peninsula and reach directly above the entire ocean. There is a place here that was previously uninhabited, but because there is a river, it can be used in the summer.

So it became a stronghold. Its characteristic is that there are two mountains on the seashore, which look like camel humps, so it is called Camel Hump Bay.

At present, more than 10,000 people have been relocated to the four ports, a total of 40,000 people. Among them, more than 10,000 are Sushen Xianbei people who can't survive in remote areas and voluntarily go out to open up new places to make a living.

The rest are employees who came from Qiancheng and are on secondment to Qiancheng but whose work locations are in these remote areas, as well as businessmen.

These strongholds can concentrate the specialties of a nearby area along the entire route, so naturally they can do business there.

Furthermore, the fishery resources are rich along this line. After the ice melts, fishing boats like to go to these places to replenish supplies. Business is very good.

Therefore, the Han Dynasty has already taken actual control of the entire east coast of the continent.

After another half a year, the entire Xiongnu tribe had been eaten to the point where almost nothing was left.

The current population of the Xiongnu Chanyu tribe is less than 120,000, so even the Xianbei can step on them.

Meanwhile, the North continued with the strategy formulated by Wei Qing at the time, continuing to encroach on the Chanyu in an effort to leave him without any troops.

Anyone who knows how to play chess can see that although Wei Qing was playing steadily and cautiously, after a certain stage, he was no longer playing steadily and cautiously, but rather humiliatingly.

He must eat up all of the opponent's chess pieces, leaving only one old general who can move left and right in the grid.

On the grassland, Huaishuo's scale has reached an unprecedented level of hugeness.

A large artificial lake was built in Huaishuo to draw water, which can provide drinking water for millions of people and also supply industry.

Therefore, many industries in the entire north are concentrated here.

Especially the processing of raw sheepskin and weaving of wool yarn are all moving here.

A large number of people from the Han Dynasty who wanted to explore the west gathered in Huaishuo, so the number of carriages manufactured here was almost catching up with that in Chang'an.

In addition to horse-drawn carriages, ships, wool and sheepskin, other industries are also concentrated here.

After all, once resources are concentrated, other resources will gather around them.

Moreover, Huaishuo produces ships and has coal, making it a very suitable starting point for the entire northern shipping. It is especially suitable for doing business east of the river and for exploring the south of the desert and Jinshan from the west, so it is very developed.

After Huaishuo started, more than a dozen spontaneous town strongholds appeared on the road from Huaishuo to Jinshan. Liu Che was no longer polite and established more than a dozen counties, sending a team to each of them.

Everything is ready on the entire grassland.

And now, the Han Dynasty is almost unified.

This moment seems to be the critical moment to start the next stage.

Even everything to start the next phase is ready.

Sea vessels are under research, and a large number of craftsmen are studying ship steel day and night, and progress has been made.

Near Senjo, a large number of plants brought back from America were planted.

Sweet potatoes, potatoes, peppers.

And this year, just a month ago, corn and even cocoa beans were brought back.

Others may not know, but doesn’t Liu Che know these things?
Sweet potatoes and potatoes started being planted last year.

The production of these two things scared Liu Che so much that his eyelids twitched!
Liu Che finally remembered Huo Hai's previous idea.

Grains were grown throughout the north, especially potatoes and corn, and then cattle and sheep were raised on the grasslands. The cattle and sheep were then transported to Huaishuo by rail. The grain was sent to Huaishuo, where it was fed with grain to make the cattle and sheep extremely fat, and then they were sent to Chang'an for consumption!

At first, Liu Che thought this was a joke.

But after obtaining these crops, Liu Che finally realized that times were changing.

As for sweet potatoes, according to Ge San’s report, the yield is terrifyingly high!
Sweet potatoes have another use, which is to send them to Shu County. Shu County and Ba County planted sweet potatoes crazily and then fed them to pigs.

Even the pigs raised in the two counties are enough to feed the entire Han Dynasty!

But! Liu Che always felt something was wrong, so he never turned the key or pressed the switch to start a new era.

As for Huo Hai, seeing that Liu Che had not taken any action for a long time, he just focused on breeding and selecting seeds, and continued to promote the selection of potatoes in a scientific way, so he was not in a hurry to do anything about agricultural reform.

Time just slowly passes by and we have come to the present.

Huo Hai and Princess Wei Chang left Chang'an and slowly took a month to reach Luoyang, then stayed in Qiancheng for more than half a year. After arriving in Nanhai County, they spent several months completing the planning of the Nanyue Kingdom's funeral.

At this time, Princess Wei Chang was pregnant, which prevented the two from returning to Chang'an.

This wait lasted another nine months.

It's already the third summer.

A loud cry startled the anxious Huo Hai.

Huo Hai was a little excited and wanted to move forward, but was stopped and not allowed to enter.

I can only turn around and talk to the person behind me.

Outside the door, no one from the Huo family was there. After all, they had important positions and couldn't come. Only Huo Zhongru was there.

No one from the Liu family was there either, except Liu Sheng, who went south with Emperor Liu Che's order in the name of investigating business.

The two were also excited.

"gave birth?"

The door opens.

Yi Shuo came out, breathed a sigh of relief, and was delighted: "It's a young master, everything is normal!"

Huo Hai: "Where's the princess?"

Yi Shuo: “Normal.”

Huo Zhongru: "Where's the child?!"

Last time, Huo Zhongru didn’t wait for Huo Xian to be born, but this time he finally waited for Huo Yan to be born.

Yi Shuo: “Wait a moment.”

Huo Hai: "Don't worry, wait for the princess to see first."

Huo Zhongru came to his senses: "Right, right, right."

Only after the people inside signaled that it was ok to enter did Yi Shuo take Huo Hai in.

Huo Zhongru couldn't see his grandson, so he grabbed Liu Sheng's hand anxiously and said, "I have a grandson again!"

Liu Sheng's son was almost fifty years old, and he was not excited at all: "Don't be excited, don't be excited, Brother Huo, why are you so excited!"

Huo Zhongru: "This child is called Huo Yan, Huo Yan..."

Liu Sheng: "Huo Yan is good. The south is called Yan, and the powerful are called Yan. There are three ancestors of ancient humanities, Yan, Huang, and Chi You. Yan is a very good name."

Yan certainly had other meanings, but Liu Sheng just picked the good one.

In fact, "Yan" does not just mean tremendous power, but refers to the power that is as hot as the hand.

Huo Hai chose this name for Emperor Liu Che to see.

It also means to commemorate Yanhuang.

Because of the times, Huo Hai had to lead the times in a direction slightly away from Yanhuang. After all, he had to get rid of the influence of Huang-Lao Taoism on the court.

As a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, it is really embarrassing to do this, so Huo Hai named his child Huo Yan, which means he regrets a little.

Then he told Liu Che that he had too much power, so much that it was hot to the touch.

If Liu Che and himself are no longer on the same front in the future, thinking of Huo Yan's name can at least remind Liu Che that Huo Hai himself does not want these rights.

……

Liu Che was also very excited when he read the letter.

Finally born.

When my eldest grandson grows up a little, he can return home.

This is not last year.

Now that the Anluo Railway has been fully opened to traffic, ships only need to go from Guangdong Province to the Yangtze River, to the Han River, disembark at the port railway station in Wancheng, take the train back to Chang'an, and the journey will not take more than ten days.

After all, Huo Hai doesn't have to wait for transportation like ordinary people, but the transportation waits for Huo Hai.

Huo Hai’s return also marks the next stage of development for the Han Dynasty.

Now the big man should be qualified to go down!
Seeing the child's name, Liu Che was suspicious: "Why give him a name when he's just born? Yuanjia? Huo Yuanjia? It sounds easy to pronounce. Yan..."

Liu Che quickly figured out why the name was Huo Yan.

I was also reminded of the idiom "謀香いう" in the idiom collection.

However, to outsiders, the name Huo Yan, also known as Yuanjia, seems to be meant to commemorate the fact that Emperor Yan was the first cultural ancestor of China, and people would not think in this direction.

But for smart people and those who know the inside story, choosing a name at birth is actually intentional.

Anyone who knows the situation can see that Huo Hai was telling the emperor that he was extremely powerful and did not want to be an official.

But is it possible?

How old is Li Cai?

How far has the new business reform progressed? Should it be implemented nationwide? If so, who will be in charge?
It's time for a change of leadership.

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Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)