Lakes, pavilions.

Li Xun held his eldest daughter Li Xue and chatted with Sima Tu and Chen and the two of them.

Chen He has been traveling abroad during this period. In the past six months, he has gone to many places and seen many things.

Although Chen He was a Han native, he grew up in the Western Regions. After returning to Fengjing with Li Xun, he always wanted to go around and take a look, recognize and see his motherland clearly. However, when he came back at that time, Zhao Zhi was seriously ill and the court was nervous. Li Xun was in it and had to face many things. Sima Tu couldn't take care of him, so Chen He stayed by his side to give him advice. Until the end of the coup, Li Xun became the prime minister of the government affairs hall. The court was relatively stable and there were not many things. Chen He then said goodbye to Li Xun and took a few guards out for a trip.

Li Xun said to Chen He: "Chen He, I thought it would take at least a year for you to go out. It's only less than half a year, why are you back?"

Chen He originally planned to go out for a year and walk around the entire Jin Dynasty, but now he is back early.

"When I was in the Western Regions, I was very impressed by the Jin Dynasty. My biggest wish in this life was to travel to the Central Plains and Han areas, but this time I went out..."

Chen He shook his head, sighed, looking a little disappointed.

Sima Tu asked, "What did Brother Qu Gao see?"

Chen He whispered: "There are many vassal states, and the local governors are domineering, coercing local government offices, intercepting taxes, forcing them to buy and sell them, occupying a large amount of land. People without land would otherwise become refugees and wandering everywhere, or they would have to join the army and join the army of local governors. I have seen too much misery and helplessness along the way. In addition to being better inside the pass, the public security in other places is very chaotic, and some places have their own policies and laws..."

Sima Tu glanced at Li Xun and said nothing.

Li Xun remained silent. He knew what Chen He said, but even as a prime minister, Li Xun was powerless.

When the Jin Dynasty reached this point today, many things have accumulated for too many years and cannot be recovered. For example, if you don’t talk about the land, just Li Xun himself, he never took the initiative to spend money to buy land or buy a large number of industries in the city. However, even so, the annual rewards from Zhao Zhi and Li Yi also made Li Mancang and Li Xun and his son, under their names, have nearly 30,000 acres of land.

Li Xun felt that he had too much land, but in the eyes of others, it was just a small witch. Not to mention others, just the You clan, where his wife Youmin was, the land owned by the entire family owned more than 100,000 acres. If you count all other places together and say the numbers, you can be stunned.

If a family wants to coordinate all the tribesmen, build academies internally, educate their children, and clear their relationships externally, everything requires a lot of money. Aristocratic families generally do not do business and make money. They disdain this. Since they do not do business, where does so much money come from? Of course, it is land, a large amount of land, and any family owns very amazing.

When Li Xun and Fan Zhongyun first met, Fan Zhongyun once told Li Xun that the Jin Dynasty had actually perished during the Pingzong period. However, the five major vassal states in Hebei were not ready to overthrow the Jin Dynasty and become kings at that time. In addition, Yang Daosi and Liu Jie united many aristocratic families with their interests and righteousness, and jointly supported the Jin Dynasty, as well as local governors and governments. The vast majority of the people in the world were still interested in the Jin Dynasty. Where is the righteousness, this allowed the Jin Dynasty not to be pushed down in the storm and endure until today.

The world's general trend is that long-term unity will be divided, and long-term unity will be combined.

The Jin Dynasty was like a terminally ill old man. No matter how good the medicine was, it could only delay and delay, and could not be cured. It was just a matter of surviving.

Li Xun handed his daughter to Jingwen beside him, then got up and came to the pavilion, looking at the scenery in the distance.

Once upon a time, when he heard others telling that Emperor Pingzong conquered the five major vassal states in Hebei, and the entire army was eventually destroyed. The Jin Dynasty was in danger of being destroyed. It was Yang Daosi, Liu Jie and others who tried to turn the tide. Emperor Xingzong Zhao Zhi worked hard to govern and revive the Jin Dynasty. Whenever he heard this, wasn’t Li Xun excited and hoped to follow their example and leave his name in history?

But to this day, Li Xun is no longer as simple as before, but has become much more mature. This maturity is not only mental, but also political vision and wisdom. For many issues, Li Xun can see a deeper level.

Starting from the fifth year of Chengping, the Battle of Jiangnan and the Battle of Longyou, the central court achieved brilliant victories, which indeed revitalized the prestige of the court and the majesty of imperial power. However, these wars were Zhao Zhi, Yang Daosi, Liu Jie and others. Over the past ten years, all the manpower and material resources in the world were gathered in the central government, so that they had the qualification and ability to start a war. What did the court get after several major wars?

The two battles in Longyou recaptured the seven states in the western part of Longyou and destroyed the Tubo. This allowed the court and Emperor Zhao Zhi to gain enough face and reputation. However, strategically speaking, in the two large-scale wars with Tubo, nearly 100,000 soldiers were killed and injured. The four prefectures and nine counties in the northern Longyou Road were severely damaged due to the war and the people were sharply reduced. Zhao Zhi had accumulated more than ten years of money and was exhausted, resulting in the almost collapse of the central government's finances.

Anbei's overall military power dropped from the maximum of 150,000 troops to less than 100,000. Because of the extremely empty finances of the court, it was impossible to provide Anbei with enough manpower and material support. This led to the vacant soldiers in Anbei who were unable to be replenished and their strength was weakened, and their defensive power against the Hu people was naturally greatly weakened.

The seven states in the western part of Longyou were also very poor. Li Zhong captured this land and seemed to have regained his hometown. However, for the Jin Dynasty, apart from its reputation, he actually did not gain any benefits. Instead, he had to send additional troops to garrison, which further exacerbated the financial loss of the court.

The Jin Dynasty fought with Tubo for many years and had always had an absolute advantage, with more victory than defeat. From an overall strategic perspective, the enemy that threatened the Jin Dynasty was actually not Tubo, but the Hu people on the Momeng Grassland. However, the two Longyou Wars exhausted all the last power of the Jin Dynasty. The Momeng Grassland was reunified and the country was established unprecedentedly. The Hu people became stronger again, but at this time the Jin Dynasty reached the lowest point.

Compared with the Hu people's growing stronger, the weakening of the military power in Anbei was severely insufficient, and the Jin Dynasty had many vassal states and the current situation was turbulent.

Li Xun woke up from his meditation and sighed, "How long can the world be calm?"
Chapter completed!