Time is like the plumpness of a girl, and in a flash, fifteen years have passed.

In the 20th year of Jian'an, within the Taimiao, the Emperor Liu Xie, the Han emperor who created the Three Rise of the Han Dynasty and the prosperous era of Jian'an, and established the Lizong and was called a god of humanity by many people, was unable to bear it after personally adding a crown prince to the crown prince in front of Yishui'er's ancestral tablet. He immediately cried in front of the civil and military officials of the court, heartbroken.

"Sixteen years, sixteen years! I, finally waited for this day, son, son, you have finally grown up! If you don't become an adult, I really can't stop your grandfather from retirement!"

After saying that, Liu Xie held Liu Chan in his arms and cried bitterly, and his sorrow came from it and it must not be stopped.

Dad~Mom~I miss you so much~

Over the past fifteen years, the development of the Han Dynasty can really be described as the four words "prosperity". After leaving the palace, Luoyang City can be seen as prosperous, far exceeding the so-called Qingming River Map in the Northern Song Dynasty.

It can even be said that in addition to the lack of high-rise buildings, the prosperity has exceeded that of some third-tier cities that Liu Xie had visited in his previous life with tourism as his main business.

The development of science and technology has brought about social progress. The price of cement has fallen year by year for fifteen years, but it has finally fallen into the homes of ordinary people. At least most of the houses in Luoyang are already three-story brick and stone cement, and several relatively tall buildings are as high as six or seven floors.

Of course, they are all tube buildings, low-rent houses built by Yin in Henan, and they live in untouchables. The problem of the gap between the rich and the poor in Luoyang City is still unsolvable for the time being.

Every morning, Liu Xie always smells the fragrance of powder on the Luoshui when he is walking his horse. The greasy water in the river is all the smell of rouge and water powder on the window street.

Since the women bought in the west have a relatively heavier body scent than those of Han women, the amount of rouge powder is inevitably used. Under the fragrance of half a city, it is impossible to count how many sins are buried.

According to the official statistics of Henan Yin himself, the permanent population of nobles and officials in Luoyang City is now about 270,000, while the number of foreign-style women sold to Luoyang every year is as high as 350,000.

In other words, if each person marrys one every year, there are still many left. Who knows how they play, but in short, it is certain that there will be at least tens of thousands of alien women who die every year. For fifteen years, almost no one in Luoyang City has seen alien women look like when they grow old.

The rate of degeneration and corruption among the nobles was far beyond Liu Xie's expectations.

Of course, as a benevolent and righteous teacher, the Han Dynasty would never personally participate in the slave arrest trade, which would be too cruel.

All slaves were bought through slave traders through reasonable and legal ways.

The great power in the west rested and the great power in the west were already full of conflicts and frequent wars. With the deliberate persuasion of the Han Dynasty, it has successfully become a life-and-death relationship.

To be honest, Rome's female slaves were more popular than those of Anxue, and Rome was indeed stronger than those of Anxue.

The exchange of weapons to slaves became the main commodity trade between the Han and Anxue. Official public opinion spared no effort to promote the Romans very evil and bad people. The Anxue was the friend of the Han, and friendship lasted forever.

Selling weapons to friends and allowing them to resist the invasion of barbarians is very just. The Han Dynasty sold weapons without any pressure at all.

In addition to spices, camels and other expensive luxury goods, there are only slaves left.

The Sakuras captured the Romans as slaves to pay the debts of the Han Empire, and naturally they were also at ease.

Therefore, in order to maintain the advantage of war, the Sabres had to buy weapons in large quantities to the Han Dynasty, making the scale of the war larger and larger, closer to the national war in which the whole nation fought. In order to pay for the weapons, they had to capture more and more Roman slaves. This led to the hatred of Rome against them day by day, and carried out one large-scale national war after another, forcing them to purchase weapons and other industrial products from the Han Dynasty, and even built a concession for the Western Regions Protectorate in China.

This is called a virtuous cycle and win-win situation.

However, the female slaves who were successfully transported to Luoyang through Rome, Anxu, and the Western Regions along the way were exhausted. Generally speaking, only beautiful ones will be transported. Most of the female slaves are digested in Anxu. However, due to the differences in aesthetics between China and the West, sometimes the female slaves who they think are beautiful are finally transported to Yongzhou, and even after transporting them to Luoyang, they have to face returns, and they lose all their money.

Some female slaves who were returned were killed directly, and some would be released. However, due to the official laws of the Han Dynasty and the overall public opinion of the public, it is difficult for these women to survive after all, and those who survive are often extremely miserable.

In other words, when 100,000 female slaves arrive in Luoyang, it often means that at least 300,000 Roman women die along the way.

Thanks to Anxi's friends for their help, Luoyang has been built into a paradise on earth. Anyway, any foreign envoy would say this after returning. Liu Xie has also read several travel notes written by foreigners in Luoyang. He is just a good guy, as if there is gold everywhere here.

However, the number of male servants sold to the big man is more than ten times that of female slaves. There is no way to do this. In fifteen years, although the price of cattle in the big man has dropped a lot, it is still ridiculously high.

There is really no way, so I can only use people as cows. Gradually, path dependence has been formed. Now, after the large-scale decline in cattle prices, many Han people still think that Roman slaves are more useful than plowing oxes.

This is a bit anti-human, but the court cannot control it either.

Moreover, the imperial court almost stopped working on water conservancy in the past fifteen years, which caused great consumption of slaves. In addition to facilitating transportation, more and more fertile fields were reclaimed with water conservancy projects, which led to insufficient oxen no matter how they were raised.

A cycle of sin!

Also due to the existence of a large customer like the Ayami Empire, the iron smelting and weapon manufacturing industries in Dahan are now extremely developed, and the coke blast furnace steelmaking method has long been invented and popularized, and several cities driven by steel have appeared in Dahan.

The imperial guards had already changed into plate armor a few years ago. Now the gangsters of the Military Commission are crazy about the proposal to change into plate armor for the soldiers, so that the basin-collared iron armor they eliminated can be sold to their good friends to rest in peace.

What is crazy? This is crazy!

The Han Dynasty had more than 800,000 soldiers and more than 800,000 pairs of plate armor. You are going crazy!

A huge military-industrial complex that even Liu Xie had already lamented that it was difficult to control had been born, and there was no way to suppress it at all.

Every time he thinks that the prosperity of the Han Dynasty is based on the flesh and blood of the Romans, Liu Xie's conscience hurts so much. The pain of being tortured by his conscience day and night has made him fat.

Under prosperity, there must be a crisis. Liu Xie can now smell the signs of a crisis. No matter how hard the court works, it will ultimately be unable to achieve reproductive isolation between the Han and Westerners.

Mixed-race children have finally appeared in these fifteen years, and there are a lot of them. This thing is just firewood. When there are fewer quantities, the problem will not be too big, but sooner or later, it will accumulate like mountains and burn half of the sky with a fire.

Of course, the benefits of the development of the Western Regions are far more than simple trade in slaves and weapons. At present, northern India has basically become a colony of the Han Dynasty, and the land to the south is not that it cannot be defeated, but it is really not favored.

At present, this place is already the most important sugarcane planting and sugar production base in the Han Dynasty. Zhang Fei is in charge of this place as the governor, and his status is only below Cao Chun.

So Zhang Fei inexplicably became a civil servant again.

Every day, I plant sugarcane, eat sugarcane, transport sugar sugar, and then use these sugarcane bagasse to make wine and transport it back.

Or they can win over and divide the natives, support the interests of agents and compradors, collect local specialties and large livestock from them, and then lose money to sell them food.

There was no way, the land and farmers here planted sugarcane, and the food was not self-sufficient. This led to the local area's rebellion several times and wanted to drive them away, but Zhang Fei was easily suppressed by the backhand.

The rebels could not form a scale at all. After all, their grain production could no longer be self-sufficient. Zhang Fei also knew that this was not only a means for him to suppress the indigenous people, but also a way for the imperial court to suppress him. But with such a large-scale resistance, let alone asking Cao Chun for help, he would not enjoy the slightest pleasure of fighting!

In a few years, I will really go to the Shangshutai to be Shangshu.

It's too much to deceive people! I want to enter the Military Affairs Office too!

There are also some other colonies in the Western Regions that have become the cotton planting centers of the Han Dynasty, which is similar to Zhang Fei.

The Han army is now more and more well-equipped and has become more and more military literacy. There are even 10,000 people in the Guards and Luoyang Imperial Guards. They are as gorgeous but expensive as the Polish wing cavalry, but when they really need to fight, they are fewer and fewer. Finally, they can have the opportunity to fight, and these generals in the army will pounce on them like flies seeing shit.

There is really no war!

These economic colonies have indeed made the living standards of ordinary people in the Han Dynasty improve linearly. The workers in the city work about four hours a day, and their wages are enough to support a family of six, and their children can receive education for free and free.

All the villagers regard going to the city as the goal of their life struggle. Although the work is still hard, at least they have no worries about food and clothing. Almost every household can afford tea every day. Each person eats an average of two pieces of sugar and drinks one to two bottles of wine every day.

Some elderly people recalled the tragic situation of the world turmoil and eating each other. Thinking about the beautiful life like heaven now, it was like a different world.

So it is not difficult to understand why the people have developed a sense of abnormal loyalty to Liu Xie that seems abnormal to him.

No, that is not loyalty, that is simply perverted, religious cult of personality.

Although Liu Xie has spared no effort to show his favorability on various occasions, Mao Zedong did not use it, and even had a negative effect.

The Taoist bulls said what they were, Kaiyuan Wuji Wansaints and Ten Directions Infinite Heavenly Venerables, and the Buddhist bald donkeys said what they were the Lord of Bodhi Gaya Ten Thousand Buddhas.

Catholics who came from afar said that they were... not important, that was not a religion that "humans" would believe in. They are currently only spread among slaves, and they can only do it secretly. Once discovered, they will be executed on the spot, which is particularly cruel.

However, whether it is Buddhism or Taoism, the speed and scale of its spread are not very good. Who knows what kind of teaching the Han people believe now is?

The people generally believe that Liu Xie is really the son of heaven. Under the premise that the court repeatedly declared the orders and prohibited them, cities and counties in various places still set up their own stone statues, iron statues and bronze statues.

At the beginning, every day, people would burn incense to his portraits, but it made Liu Xie feel particularly unlucky: I am not dead yet!

As a result, they later changed their worship.

It is said that many people would bow to Luoyang again before eating and before going to bed to thank the emperor for the better life they brought to them.

I don’t know how it was passed on, but after passing it, a bunch of etiquette and rules came out.

It's even more strange!

It’s a bit similar to the Unishen Cult in Japan! If this continues, I will become the emperor!

However, after Liu Xie ordered an investigation for several years, the gang of wastes in the school office could not find out who the leader and backbone of the cult were.

The power of this cult is becoming increasingly powerful in the country.

Of course, this has led to the common people and officers and generals who are both confused about the same question: Why has Your Majesty not sent troops to unify Wu and Shu?

Yes, it's been fifteen years, and Zhao Wei and Sun Ce are still alive.

The soldiers in the army were waiting until their eyes turned green!

Shu, it’s actually okay. It’s already a piece of meat that has reached the mouth, it’s just when to eat and when to swallow it.

Because Shu is producing tea and Shu brocade, these two things are really easy to sell in the Central Plains. They are also powerful politics, and local tyrants have basically monopolized all aspects of Shu.

Therefore, a large amount of mulberry-growing tea was grown in Shu, but the grain output was lower than a year, and it needed to be imported from the Central Plains in large quantities, which was basically considered to have been semi-colonized by the imperial court.

The most important thing is that the court believes that the road to Shu is difficult and is not conducive to large-scale trade. In order to ensure the smooth flow of trade, the powerful and powerful Shu Kingdom, who have become compradors, have forced Zhao Wei to demolish the Jianmen Pass.

Zhao Wei was also quite open-minded. Anyway, if you Liu Xie wanted to fight, I would definitely not be able to withstand it, so I just lay down. Not only had my sons been sent as a staple, but almost all the troops in Yizhou were placed in the southern region, and they were all focused on developing barbarian lands, and by the way, they provided more local specialties such as gems, spices, medicinal materials for the Central Plains dynasty.

As for the imperial court, they were blackmailed every now and then, so that the royal court in Yizhou could not accumulate national strength and had never done anything else.

It seems that he really agrees with the status of Zhao Wei, the King of Shu, from the bottom of his heart.
Chapter completed!