.The Empire's Dream

In the summer of the 14th year of China, Liu Xie finally led the Imperial Palace and the Zhiluo Mansion to complete the planning of the northern economy. The Imperial Palace issued local governance policies for this plan also received strong support from the Central Zhiluo Mansion.

Not long after, Maximinus came to say goodbye. He hoped to return to Rome and contribute his strength to the end of the troubled times of Rome. (The 13th Spring of China at the beginning of Chapter 6 was wrong, it was the 14th Spring)

Liu Xie knew that he had no reason to keep him. Maximinus was an outstanding general. During his years of study at the Xiangyang Military Academy of the Great Han Dynasty, he made him more mature. If he was allowed to return to Rome now, with his ability and appeal to the Roman Empire itself, he could become one of the endorses of the imperial war, just like in history.

Liu Xie was about to speak, Maximinus added: "Roman scholars are willing to stay in the Han Empire and the knowledgeable city of Xiangyang, but my soldiers will go back with us. Although there are only one hundred and thirty soldiers, we will devote our lives to the end of the chaos in Rome!"

Liu Xie sat on the highest dragon throne in the hall, looked at the humble Maximinus, and nodded slightly, "I am not not letting you leave, but the current attitude of the Rest Empire is not clear, I am afraid that you will be hunted down halfway."

Maximinus lowered his head and thought. He was fighting fiercely in his heart. If he returned to Rome, he might have rested in the pursuit of the cavalry of the Empire halfway, but if he did not return to Rome, he would also be restless. Just when both of them were helpless, Chen Qun entered the hall and reported: "Eight hundred miles of the Western Regions to speed up the documents!"

Liu Xie opened the sealed bamboo tube with vermilion lacquer, took out the document from it, and gently spread it out to look carefully. The document was sent by Xun You from Xijin City. Because it was too important, he did not use the flying pigeon. Instead, he used the traditional 800-mile expediting method to pass it through the post station.

The document roughly means that Ardaban V, the new king of the Silent Empire, succeeded to the throne, and had released Chang Ji and the horse-buying team, allowing the Han Dynasty to purchase horses from the Silent Empire. He hoped to maintain peace with the Han Dynasty, and supported an additional five thousand Dayuan purebred horses and five thousand best Turkish horses on the condition that the Roman delegation was handed over to the Silent Empire.

Liu Xie sneered, handed the document to Chen Qun, and asked, "What should I do with Changwen?"

After reading the document, Chen Qun replied: "The conditions offered by the Absolute Empire are not bad, but since our Han Dynasty has signed a preliminary alliance agreement with the Roman Empire, we cannot ignore the righteousness for such small profits!"

Liu Xie asked Maximinus to read the document and smiled and said, "This is not a small profit. If we send troops to attack, we may get tens of billions of military spending, so I plan to accept the conditions of the Rest Empire!"

Maximinus was suddenly surprised and couldn't help but take a step back, and said with his head raised: "I can't imagine that the respected Emperor of the Han Empire was so short-sighted, disregarding the long-term interests of the empire for these horses!" Liu Xie laughed several times and said: "I naturally consider long-term interests first, but this time I will get the short-term interests too!" He said to Chen Qun: "Reply to Aldaban V, telling him that the Roman delegation had surrendered to the Han Empire because of its admiration for the Han Empire and prosperity, and became my people. He did not intend to return to Rome. However, the head of the delegation leader, I can give them to them and let them send the promised horses. Otherwise, I will personally collect the ten thousand horses!"

Chen Qun looked at Maximinus, shook his head and sighed, shouting to the soldiers of the guard camp in the hall, "Take him down!"

A few months later, Liu Xie obtained another document from Xun You, saying that during his adventure to the cold forest area in the north towards the Ili grassland, he was indeed as Liu Xie said. He discovered a very tall and strong horse. His average height was about one foot and six inches per step, and most adults could weigh up to three thousand kilograms (probably - kilograms. The average weight of cold-blooded horses in Nordic and Siberia has never been seen in the dialect. For example, Mongolian horses are generally the heaviest at 300 kilograms).

Xijincheng was organizing Wusun herders to store a large number of horses. As for Chang Ji still staying in the Absil Empire to choose horses, Ardaban V received Maximinus' head and allowed Chang Ji to choose the best war horses in the Absil Empire's royal ranch to return to the Han Dynasty.

By the autumn of the 14th year of China, Chang Ji finally selected two hundred excellent Iberian horses, 6,300 purebred Dayuan horses and more than 7,000 Turkish horses from the Ali Empire. With the heavy horses provided by the Wusun herders, Chang Ji did not return to China immediately under the arrangement of Liu Xie, but instead engaged in the cultivation of Xin horse breeds in the Yili pasture.

At the same time, Xu Shu had ended the war in Yingzhou, and all the five counties of Yingzhou were taken into the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the last 50,000 local slave workers in Yingzhou were transported back to the Han Dynasty. Liu Xie also officially moved 200,000 people to the plain port area of ​​the five counties of Yingzhou.

In late autumn, Xu Shu led the army back to Huai'an. After a little supply in Huai'an, he continued to go to Nanhai County, Guangzhou by sea, and began to prepare for the stability of Taizhou.

Liu Xie mobilized Ling Tong, one of the 24 stars, to Taizhou, to leave Huangfu Yan's younger brother Huangfu Ye to stay mourning, and sent Huangfu Yan to the Western Regions, which were trained by Xun You. Deng Ai, Zhao Guang, Zhao Tong, and Cao Zhang were also transferred to Zhao Yun's house, asking Zhao Yun to prepare to clear the Xianbei tribes such as Murong who were entrenched outside the Daxingan Mountains...www.piaotian.com.

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After the Northern Planning Conference ended, the Yufu and Zhiluofu jointly formulated the governance policies of the northern prefectures based on the reports from the meeting and the Taixue Prefecture, and further planned the new water conservancy and farm construction projects in the north.

The population of Yingzhou increased by 320,000 at the end of the year. In addition to the population of various trading companies left in the five counties and private areas, the total population of Yingzhou also reached 410,000, and the local natives also had 300,000 women and about 30,000 slave workers.

Since the lack of women in the Han Empire is now a recognized problem, a large number of young men in the area have reached the age of marriage but cannot get married. Many young men mainly demand to go to Yingzhou, and wealthy families have begun to buy indigenous women in Yingzhou. Under the touch of this business opportunity, many businessmen have begun to attack Taizhou, robbing a large number of local women and transporting them to the inland for sale.

Liu Xie expressed his apology to this and issued an edict to require the states to give the national qualifications of women's empires after marriage. An expedition team composed of more than 300 scholars and more than 3,000 Qiang soldiers from the Central Imperial Academy were also preparing to start the first Tibetan expedition.

In the spring of the 15th year of China, Liu Xie personally saw the expedition team off and gave them a military flag of the treasure adventure camp. After five years of accelerated construction, especially after a large number of Yingzhou slave workers joined, the construction of Tianjing City had been initially completed, and Liu Xie's plan to relocate was also two years ahead of schedule. He hoped that the construction of the inner city of Tianjing City could be completed in the summer of China in the 18th year of China.

Not long after, the Military Academy submitted the latest reorganized Taizhou intelligence, and the Zhiluo Mansion also submitted the current household registration review statistics report of the Han Empire.

Liu Xie first took the report from Zhiluo Mansion, looked through it carefully, frowned slightly, and couldn't help but sigh softly after reading it.

After twenty years of governance, the current population of the Han Empire is no longer 34 million as measured five years ago, and the actual population has exceeded 36 million, especially Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Shuzhou. They have the best living standards. Almost every family had four or five children in their early years, and now these children have reached over fifteen years old. Since children under the age of fifteen have never counted, this time the statistics suddenly increased the population of the Han Dynasty by two million.

If we include the three major ethnic groups in the north of the Mo River, the population of Han is close to 40 million, and the population of Nanli alone exceeds 1.6 million.

Liu Xie slowly knocked on the jade ruler in his hand. The south can be said to be stable for many years. They survived the Yellow Turban era. There was no problem of war in the past 30 years since then. Although the wars in the north were constantly, due to the stability of the south, a large number of refugees finally survived in the south. In addition, the millions of people in the north of the desert and the Western Regions were re-assigned to the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty only disappeared from the 55 million people during the reign of Emperor Heng to today. This is compared with the 40 million or even 50 million people in history. The Han Dynasty finally escaped...

Jingzhou has the largest population in the Han Dynasty, reaching 8.6 million; Yangzhou has a population of more than 6 million. Shuzhou has a population of 4.2 million, and the three states together account for half of the national population.

The population may not be as large as possible.

It is impossible to limit the population in this era. As the population improves, it will naturally expand. When it expands to a certain extent, it will cause economic terror, which will eventually lead to the outbreak of war and will stimulate the solution of population problems.

What kind of policies should be adopted to ensure the healthy growth of the domestic population without suppressing economic development. This is a problem that the Chinese nation cannot solve for thousands of years.

Liu Xie quietly said to himself: "The policy of the Imperial School is time to implement! Chang Ji sent a document in the summer of the 15th year. The book said: "The tall horses in the north are tall and strong, but they are not sensitive enough. They cannot be used for war horses. They can only be used for agricultural purposes or to pull carts and horses. They can be introduced to Dayuan's good horses for improvement, or they can be independent of a horse system, or they can be mixed with Hexi horses. The horses produced can be used for heavy iron cavalry. Now, a large number of Dayuan purebred Dayuan horses have been purchased. It is recommended that Ili and Nanli be used as pasture land; the Han area

The vastness of the pastures in various places is the same, so the war horses and farm horses raised by the Han Dynasty should not be the same. The horses raised by the Xianbei are hard-working, but small in size, and can only be used by the Guanxuan cavalry. After cultivating new varieties in the Yili pasture, it can be promoted in the northern Mobei. Hexi horses can also be promoted in farmers in the northern Central Plains. The Yili pasture is dominated by the rangers' special breeds and purebred Dayuan horses, the Xiliang pasture is dominated by the Xiliang horses, and the Ussuri River pasture is mainly dominated by heavy cavalry horses."

After reading it, Liu Xie agreed to let Zhiluofu promote animal husbandry breeds in various ranches according to the letter. This time, the formation and further improvement of the rangers and heavy cavalry of the Han Dynasty were accelerated. In order to avoid the quality of the introduced horse breeds falling again, the Bensheng horses of the Han Dynasty began to become meat horses, gradually killing them within a few years, replacing the promotion of more labor-resistant and taller Hexi horses. Major ranches also replaced new horse breeds. Yili ranches began to realize the improvement of Turkish horses and purebred Dayuan horses. The Yili ranches were specialized for the new horses. Xiliang ranches continued to promote Xiliang horses in full, and Nanli ranches in Xiliang.

On the basis of horse land, Dayuan horses and Iberian horses were introduced again to improve the war horses for rangers with more endurance and sensitivity. The Xianbei and Wuheng ranches promoted Hexi horses. Because the number of Xiongnu horses (Mongolian horses) in the two ethnic ranches was very large, they could not be banned. They could only hybridize Hexi horses and Xiongnu horses, and eventually formed Xianbei horses in terms of quality. However, because they had the characteristics of Hexi horses and Xiongnu horses, they maintained the endurance of the Xiongnu horses, and also retained the advantages of Hexi horses' height and strong load-bearing. Both have the hard-working and docile qualities of both have been preserved.

The Ussuri River ranch eliminated local horse breeds through grassland passages. The cold-blooded horses in the north were introduced and the pure-blooded Dayuan horses were used to improve them. The new horse breed Liaodong horses were initially cultivated and formed in Yili. Since the climatic conditions of the Ussuri River ranch were colder than that of the Yili pasture, Liaodong horses achieved better results when they were deeply cultivated into a system in Xingzhou. The overall herd of horses maintained a tall, high endurance and flexible and alert personality.

As Wusun herders obtained more and more cold-blooded horses in the Western Siberian plains, a large number of cold-blooded horses began to enter the Han Dynasty, continuously improving the system of local horses in the Han Dynasty, making agricultural horses a high and hard-working trend, and further improving the efficiency of horse farming, and gradually becoming the first choice for farming fields in the north.

The people of the Western Regions had the habit of raising horses. They were also more refined horse raising methods. The native horses were gradually replaced with Dayuan thoroughbred horses, which made the Han Dynasty no longer need to buy Dayuan horses from Anxi, so that the legendary Han-blooded BMW truly took root in the territory of the Han Dynasty, and horse charts were established in various places to strictly maintain the excellent bloodline of the horse.

Chang Ji selected the best Iberian horses and purebred Dayuan horses, and chose six horses for fine cultivation, and finally cultivated the Jade Blood Horse, but it was different from what Liu Xie imagined. The Jade Blood Horse was too sensitive and very delicate. Although it was of excellent quality, it could not be promoted as a war horse. However, considering its elegant body shape, gorgeous dance steps, and smooth color as blood as jade, it eventually became a special horse system for the Han royal family.

The Han Dynasty finally completed its initially weak horse system, namely Bingzhou, Youzhou, Liangzhou and Xiongnu, after nearly 30 years of careful adjustment and introduction, and finally completed its dream of war horses, allowing the Han Empire to have the eight major horse systems of Yili horses, Nanli horses, Xiliang horses, Liaodong horses, Xianbei horses, Hexi horses, Dayuan horses, and Yuxue horses. It transformed from a weak horse-back country to a real horse-back power country. The seven major horse systems built a cavalry empire that future generations could not overcome.

The Yili horse is based on comprehensive ability. It is very excellent in all aspects of endurance, weight bearing, charge, agility, hardship, and character. It is the best war horse breed in the Han Empire. It is also the cornerstone of the Han Rangers dominating the world.

Compared with the Yili horse, the Nanli horse is better in terms of endurance and agility, and is slightly lacking in weight, charge and hard work. It is the first choice for the cavalry of the Han Empire to control the Xuan and the second choice for the Rangers.

Xiliang horse is a substitute for the Yili horse and the Nanli horse. It is slightly better than the Yili horse in terms of hardship and personality, and can be suitable for Rangers and Guanxuan cavalry.

The Liaodong horse inherits the dual bloodline of the cold-blooded horse and the excellent hot-blooded horse in the north. It is the world's first artificial warm-blooded horse system and is the first choice for heavy cavalry horses in the Han Empire. Its average height is one foot and two inches per step (about one meter and sixty-five), and some people can reach one step and two feet (one meter and eight), and the charge and weight-bearing ability are very excellent. The weight of an adult Liaodong horse can reach two thousand five hundred and fifty kilograms (usually around five hundred and fifty kilograms).

Xianbei horses belong to the degenerate horse system of Hexi horses. While the size of Hexi horses continues to decrease, it inherits the comprehensive advantages of hard-working, strong reproductive ability, good cold and drought resistance, good endurance and good weight-bearing ability. It is the main breeding of the northern Mo people. The total amount is huge and the individual price is extremely cheap. It is the war horse that the Han Empire is accustomed to using during the long-term war consumption.

The introduction of the cold-blooded horse bloodline in the north in the late Han Dynasty and the improvement of a large number of Liaodong horse lands, Hexi horses were more suitable for charge cavalry and farming than the early empires. They were important horse breeds in agricultural production. In addition, they were docile and raised in the northern part of the Central Plains in large quantities, becoming a backup horse selection in the cavalry land of the Han Empire, and also the main agricultural horses and horses.

The pure-blooded Dayuan horse and pure-blooded Iberia, including the Jade Blood Horse, which is bred by Iberia and Dayuan horses, are collectively called the Royal Horse. Because of their elegant body shape and good at dancing, the three types are royal horses of the Han Dynasty. They are mainly finely raised in the Western Regions, Yili and Youzhou. Among them, the Jade Blood Horse with the best posture and body shape belongs to the royal family and are generally only used as gifts between the imperial family and other countries.

The Han Rangers changed from a single Xiliang horse to three war horses: Yili horse, Xiliang horse and Nanli horse. The Han heavy cavalry also began to gradually replace from Hexi horses to taller Liaodong horses, and the Guanxuan cavalry also began to move from the Xiongnu horses to the Xianbei horses. The elite Guanxuan cavalry directly under the Han Dynasty was uniformly equipped with the Nanli horses with the strongest endurance of the Han Dynasty - the Nanli horse.

With the cultivation and promotion of Liaodong horses for heavy cavalry, Liu Xie also began to contact the Commander's Office and various arms trading agencies, and asked various arms trading agencies to propose new heavy cavalry armor and supporting horse Kai.

All major military trading companies responded, gathering all experts in armor manufacturing and even hiring Roman scholars to participate in the design. After all, once the Military Academy chooses the plan of that trading company, it means that a large number of orders will fly over in the future.
Chapter completed!