Chapter 1005: The new era of extras does not need to show off deliberately

While Guan Yu was pursuing and searching the Xianbei enemies on the grasslands in the southern desert, the remnants of Lu Bu's army also slowly marched back to Yunzhong and Jiuyuan.

The troops walked very slowly, and there was no way to do this because there were too many wounded people.

Although the Han army finally achieved a decisive victory in this battle, there were also considerable casualties. Lu Bu and Guan Yu's army combined, and 10,000 or 20,000 people were killed or injured before the main force of Tuoba Liwei was wiped out.

Fortunately, this is basically the last battle to clear the threat from the northern part of the Central Plains, and this number is acceptable.

Emperor Wu of Han fought against the Xiongnu for so many years, and at least tens of thousands of soldiers died, and it was not considered that other non-combat reductions were not counted. Now, Liu Bei fought against the Xianbei and Wuhuan grassland coalition, relying on weapons and equipment with certain technical difficulties, and in the two or three years of war, the total total of less than 50,000 regular army casualties, and several times the people, was considered very good.

In addition, among the casualties of this battle, Lu Bu's troops accounted for at least 70%, and Guan Yu's troops only 30%. Lu Bu's army basically lost its system after the battle and had to be reorganized.

Moreover, those old men who had been in the army early and who had joined the army before Dong Zhuo was in power, even though they were just small soldiers back then, they were at least fifty years old now.

These veterans also suffered the greatest losses in the battle. When the last group of troops who had served Dong Zhuo had withdrawn from the stage of history, the remaining newcomers were of course increasingly direct towards the court, making it easier to be integrated.

Lu Bu himself was also seriously injured and delayed for a while. In the end, he was still on the way home, and the oil was exhausted and the lamp was gone.

Before retreating, Guan Yu had given them some caravans and other means of transportation to carry animals so that the wounded soldiers could be more stable when marching, so that they could have a cart and no longer had to ride horses in person.

Before Lu Bu died, his confidant beside him also asked him whether to dismantle a caravan with the best wood and take the wooden boards as a coffin, but Lu Bu refused.

All of them have been at this point, and Lu Bu is not afraid of death, so he also wants to keep a heroic reputation behind him. What is the use of a coffin? Can a dead person still feel comfortable lying down?

So Lu Bu took care of his confidants. At that moment, he just wrapped the skin of his war horse that he had died in battle a few days ago and transported it back.

The confidants also strictly followed the situation. When they finally returned to Jiuyuan County, they mourned loudly when they entered the city, allowing the people of the whole city to come out to pay their respects.

Strictly speaking, Lu Bu died of serious illness on his way home, and at least he was better than dying directly on the battlefield. He also gave more room for operation to those who wrote historical materials later.

In this way, on the one hand, he was "diligent in state affairs and died during military operations", and on the other hand, he did not give Tuoba Liwei the title and contribution of "killing Lu Bu directly on the battlefield", which took into account both his reputation.

This situation is basically the same as when Huang Zhong killed Xiahou Yuan in history and died of illness shortly after returning to the army. It is also similar to Ma Yuan's southern expedition to Jiaozhi and Wuxi Man, who died of illness during the war.

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After the war ended, the court naturally had to take some more inventory and reward each other, and celebrated the whole world together.

Liu Bei was not stingy with official titles and added titles to Guan, Zhang and Zhao. Although Guan Yu did not make military achievements last year, he gained the opportunity to finally annihilate the main force of Xianbei this year, and finally caught up with him.

In the end, Guan Yu's highest number of counties in his life reached twelve counties, but many of them were newly established on the grasslands in the north and south of Yinshan Mountains and the south of the desert. Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun both had ten counties.

Because Zhang Fei had insufficient territory in Shanggu County, Liu Bei granted the right to draw a county from the adjacent Yuyang County to Shanggu County, which made it easier for Shanggu County to border Chifeng County on the grassland, and then granted one or two counties of Chifeng County to supply Zhang Fei.

The land on Zhao Yun's side is definitely enough to seal, because there are not too many newly developed territories on the Northeast Plain. Several counties in Liucheng County were assigned to Liaodong County's public fiefdom, and some of the newly established counties in the Siping area in later generations were also assigned.

After his death, Lu Bu was finally granted a title from Yun Zhonggong, but because it was a title, it was actually just passed on to his son's three counties of marquis. However, this can be regarded as a fact that it was a title of additional title-

Originally, if Lu Bu died of old age, when his fiefdom was passed to his son, he would have to reduce the number of sealed households. Now he can leave 20,000 households for his son in three counties.

This also left an example for later generations, which facilitated the operation of posthumously titled as Duke after the death of the Marquis who had military achievements after their death, which later generations can invoke.

In the original history, many dynasties in later generations even posthumously named King after death. For example, after Yue Fei of the Song Dynasty was rehabilitated, he could posthumously named King E after death.

But this kind of thing is definitely not possible in the Han Dynasty. The White Horse Alliance is there, and it is not legal to posthumously be named the title of king after the death of a different surname. Giving a duke has been considered an optimization of the system. (Cao Cao submitted that he had conferred Guan Yu as King Jing, which was compiled by Luo Guanzhong in the Romance of the Romance. Guan Yu had an increasingly high position in the later dynasties, but it was not at that time)

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Time soon came to the end of 212, and the work of pursuing the remaining enemies on the grassland was not over. With the arrival of severe winter, the Han army was stationed and changed to blockade, but the overall situation was settled, so the atmosphere in the capital Luoyang was very prosperous and festive.

The pension that should be given, the reward that should be given. Lu Bu's confidants also sent people to come to the capital to engage in activities, but how could a wealthy like Li Su be regarded as accepting money and gifts from others privately? So he didn't take the money and asked his wife to write straight.

As for Lu Bu's final conclusion, I must write about the things that helped the evil in his early years, but the subsequent reforms and reforms are also written truthfully, without bias.

Cai Yan also commented a few comments on the final "Online" part (which is equivalent to the "Taishi Gongyan" part of each biography in "Records of the Grand Historian"), comparing "Ma Yuan first came from Longyou Wei Xiang, and later returned to Guangwu" with Lu Bu's first visit to Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao, which was very considerate.

After all, what a character Ma Yuan is? The Han Dynasty has a high evaluation and is not a comparison for anyone.

After Lu Bu's family learned about Cai Yan's chronicle content, they were also very satisfied. Even if this matter was over, it was over.

As the New Year approaches, Liu Bei has a banquet for the ministers in the palace, and also summoned Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun to return to Beijing to report their duties and meet. After all, the war on the Donghu grassland has been completely overturned this winter.

All that is left is the military operation on the southern desert grassland, which belongs to Guan Yu's defense zone, so only Guan Yu is left to set up defenses in the snow and sand.

Zhuge Liang also has completed the canal network this year, and only one Tianjin city is still under construction, and the shipping dredging of the Yellow River and Yishui River estuary continues.

However, these small projects do not require the Superintendent Zhuge Liang to supervise them personally. He made the initial plan and designed the censorship system so that he could get out of here. Therefore, Zhuge Liang also returned to Luoyang at the end of the year, and it would not be too late to send a tour of the northern province next year.

The highest-level officials who remained at the forefront of Youji, the Minister of Works, Guoyuan, were the Minister of Works.

On the New Year's Day, until the Spring Festival, Liu Bei invited four people from the Sixth Dukes in Beijing to have fun every day, and by the way, they would like to discuss the national plan and the long-term formation.

Lu Su, Zhuge Jin, and Liu Ba, the senior officials in charge of civil affairs, also promptly handed over the financial problems left over from the past three years of construction and large-scale military use to Liu Bei.

Not to mention, fighting is really a money-making money. This time I decided to try my best to be as clean as possible, but the expenses are still huge.

I think the rewards and pensions given to the soldiers by Emperor Wu of Han when he dealt with the Huns, he spent nearly 20 billion yuan in total, which is equivalent to the total fiscal revenue of the court in the six or seven years of the reign of Emperor Wu of Han.

The key is that the court cannot use all its money to fight wars, and there are other expenses for maintaining rule on a daily basis. It is very good to support so many officials and so many projects, and save one-third of the money to save for wars every year.

Therefore, destroying a nomadic foreign tribe from the north and spending 20 to 30 years of financial surplus in the Han Dynasty was normal in the eyes of Han bureaucrats.

This time, Liu Bei tried to reduce the war time and food and grass loss, but because the equipment is more advanced and the achievement obtained by relying on a certain technical difference, the expenditure on weapons and equipment and consumables is still much higher than that of his predecessors.

After seven or eight calculations, so many supporting infrastructure construction cost more than 8 billion yuan in the end. The direct military expenditure and rewards, and the pensions were all added, which was close to 20 billion yuan (the 20 billion yuan of the time of Emperor Wu of Han did not count military salaries and daily expenses, but only the pension for casualties and the rewards for those who have made meritorious service).

Finally, the grassland areas south of the desert were cleared, and the construction of Youji infrastructure was built, and a total of 26 billion yuan of fiscal expenditures were borne in more than three years!

The annual agricultural tax and capita tax in the country, and the corvee service in other states in Hebei, should still be used to maintain the normal operation of the imperial court. Therefore, the ones that can be used to repay debts and engage in wars to carry out construction are basically equivalent to the country's industrial and commercial tax.

The country's total industrial and commercial tax has always been around 700 billion yuan per year. If it were originally peaceful farming, it could be close to 10 billion yuan in recent years.

However, because the Hebei region was destroyed to a certain extent by war, and some permanent tax exemptions were issued to reduce or exempt government bonds, this part of the increase was temporarily swallowed up.

Although the Sado Gold Mine in Fuso is the third year after its discovery, its development is still relatively slow.

Mainly, when Li Su and Zhuge Liang left Fusang, they only discovered gold mines, but there was almost no local infrastructure. Sado Island was still an almost unmanned land. "Yueshan County" was just settled by Fusang's immigrants in 210. They were previously where the Essays lived.

In order to mine in such an area, you have to invest money in the construction of the transportation environment, paving roads and building ports and docks, repairing ships and docks, and building land reclamation farmland in towns. Therefore, the first three years were basically a loss of money, and it was still in the land reclamation period. Fuso’s gold will not be subsidized for the court’s finances for the time being.

As for Ishimi Yinshan, it was later discovered than Sado Jinshan. It is still in the exploration period and has not started mining at all.

After all, the imperial court had more than 5 billion national debts not paid off before the war. In the past three years, 26 were spent, and the industrial and commercial tax filled 200, which was another 6 billion deficit.

Li Su also suggested that Liu Bei slow down, not to use the people too much, and to control the rhythm of rest with the people. This time, we should really lighten the taxes and pay off the taxes and not cause trouble. When the 12 billion yuan is completely paid off, we can better establish government credit and give the people a confidence, so that they realize that the court does not "always want to do things, and spend all the money and pay the debts whenever they have money."

Liu Bei accepted this suggestion and decided to take a good rest during the past three years from the 18th year of Zhangwu (213) to the 20th year of Zhangwu (215).

According to the current rhythm, as long as there is no major natural disaster, the 12 billion national debt deficit can be paid off in more than two years, and there will be a slight surplus in three years. Then the national treasury will have 300 billion reserve pockets left.

Of course, the premise of all this is based on the premise that no major natural disasters occur again. In fact, with the natural environment in the 210s and the historical records later, Li Su also knew that this was basically impossible.

After peace in the world, at most, the epidemic of plague can be slightly controlled. After all, there are fewer wars, and the number of slaughtering corpses cannot be handled in batches becomes less, and the plague will also be reduced.

The three major elements of flood, drought and locust plagues are not affected by human activities. Therefore, it was originally a major disaster that occurred every three or four years in the late Han Dynasty, but now it is good to be able to reduce it to five or six years.

In fact, when Sima Qian was writing "Records of the Grand Historian", there was a simple summary of the astronomical and calendar part, which was regarded as a cycle summary of the heavenly time. In the agricultural era, there were also "economic cycles" caused by natural disasters. However, the ancients could not summarize the principles, and could only estimate the numbers based on experience.

In the first half of the first month, Liu Bei discussed these plans for repaying debts and rest with his ministers. Then he remembered something and asked his important officials whether they could take advantage of the first month to discuss whether they should change their year name this year and not use Zhangwu for the 18th year.

Liu Bei's inner thoughts were obviously "You said that you would not change the year name immediately after destroying Yuan Cao, to show that the Han Dynasty has never been cut off. There can only be considered a 'Zhang Dong Yuan Cao Rebellion' that lasted for twenty years. We do not want Cao Cao's demise as an opportunity to change the year name."

Now, it has been ten years since Cao Cao died. In the past ten years, he worked hard to govern the country and carried out so many constructions that integrated the whole country, and completely wiped out the remnants of Yuan and Cao, such as Gongsun Du and Gaoguan.

He also pacified the three Hans and Fusang behind Gongsun Du, and destroyed the Xianbei and Wuhuan behind the high-ranking officials. This martial arts can also be regarded as the peak of Emperor Gaozu, Emperor Wu, and Guangwu. This should reform the year name, which means that the imperial court will move from then on to the civilized governance of the people and enrich the people?

The one who guessed Liu Bei's thoughts most clearly was Fazheng, followed by Lu Su. So Fazheng was the first to jump out and advocated that it was indeed time to change the year name.

On the day of the congratulations of the Shangyuan Festival, Fa Zheng memorialized: "Your Majesty's civil and military skills are superior to those of the ancients. Zhang Wu's title is to show Your Majesty's martial arts to the world, but it is inevitable that future generations will ignore civil and military skills.

Now that the Xianbei Khan is awarded the title of the head, it is the right time to change one, so that the subjects can appreciate the future new policy and boost morale."

Liu Bei was very helpful in flattering Fa Zheng, so he asked Prime Minister Li Su again.

Li Su thought for a while and opposed it: "Your Majesty, change the era to enlighten virtue. This method originated from Emperor Wu. It has been more than 300 years since the world has become accustomed to it and has never thought about its connotation. It was used in the revival of Guangwu.
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