The express boat reporting the victory preceded Huan Wen and went down the river from Shu to the east. Every time it docked at a dock, there would always be people getting off the boat and shouting:
"A great victory over Shu! General Anxi and Duke Huan, governor of Jingzhou, destroyed his country and swallowed up all its lands!"
The soldiers and civilians on both sides of the Taiwan Strait raised their hands in celebration and rushed to tell each other.
News of Huan Wen's success in conquering Shu quickly spread throughout Jing and Yang.
The atmosphere in the court was in sharp contrast to that of the people, and it could be described as gloomy and gloomy.
When Huan Wen was originally assigned to guard Jingzhou, he wanted him to guard the west gate of the country, but he never thought that Huan Wen would take the initiative and attack Cheng Han.
Previously, Huan Wen was responsible for supervising the military affairs of six states. It was said that they were six states, but the rest of Si, Yi, Yong, and Ning were all settled by overseas Chinese. They just separated a county in Jingzhou as a nominal state, and Liangzhou was also Only four counties remain.
Now that Cheng Han was destroyed, Huan Wen not only took control of Yizhou, but also the four lost counties of Liangzhou returned. Similarly, the twelve counties of Ningzhou, including Yunnan County, previously occupied by Cheng Han, also returned.
Now Huan Wen not only controls the entire territory of the Shu Han Dynasty, but also controls Jingzhou. Compared with the prosperity of Emperor Zhaolie of the Shu Han Dynasty, it is even more powerful. How can we not be frightened by the fact that the Eastern Jin Dynasty was located in the east of the Yangtze River.
The development of things was so unexpected. Except for Liu Xun, who could have imagined that Huan Wen could destroy the Han Dynasty with only 10,000 troops.
Now it's too late to try to stumble and hold us back.
Soon, Huan Wen's memorial was sent to Jiangdong. In addition to the generals asking for merit, Huan Wen asked Sima Xun to be transferred to Jiangxia Prime Minister Yuan Qiao as the governor of Liangzhou.
The princes in the court were in an uproar. King Sima Yu and Situ Cai Mo, who were jointly assisting the government, wanted to agree to Huan Wen's request. However, during the court meeting, Shangshu Zuocheng Xunrui stopped him and said:
"Huan Wen is now in dire straits. How can he send Yuan Qiao out to control Liangzhou to make him more powerful than a tiger?"
The imperial court therefore refused Huan Wen's request. When Huan Wen learned the news, he happened to be sailing out of Sichuan. Huan Wen did not rush and made another appearance, claiming that he would lead elite troops from Jing and Yi to the court to pay an audience with the emperor and to meet Yuan Qiao. The matter of guarding Liangzhou is urgent.
When Sima Yu heard the news, he lamented:
"He Xianggong is loyal to the country, but he has no knowledge of people. He not only misjudged Huan Wen's son and compared the young phoenix to a dolphin dog, but also mistakenly believed in Huan Wen, adding disaster to the court."
Situ Cai Mo was also in vain. With Huan Wen's current power, he rebelled more than Su Jun and Yu. Now he brought the power of destroying the country and forced the court. The ministers really did not dare to compete with him, let alone the orphans and widows in Taicheng. .
Queen Mother Chu Suanzi summoned the important ministers and said helplessly:
"It's better to agree to Duke Huan's request, and the imperial court and the Western Fan can live in peace."
This time, even Xun Rui, who had been opposed before, kept his mouth shut. After all, if he really lured Huan Wen to Jiangdong, he would follow in Chao Cuo's footsteps to calm Huan Wen's anger.
Immediately, the imperial court issued an edict to summon Sima Xun, the governor of Liangzhou, to serve as an official in the court, and Yuan Qiao succeeded him as the governor of Liangzhou.
Even though Sima Xun was unwilling to give up his responsibilities, the imperial court had issued an order, Yuan Qiao was eyeing him in Hanzhong, and Huan Wen deployed heavy troops in Xiangyang. Sima Xun had no choice but to leave Wudang and take a boat to Jiankang. .
After this incident, the generals and assistants of the six states of Jing, Yi, Liang, Ning, Yong, and Si all saw through the reality of the imperial court. From then on, they only knew that there was Duke Huan, but not the imperial court.
The rewards for the heroes who conquered Shu still needed to be discussed by the court officials and could not be issued immediately. However, some of Huan Wen's requests were immediately agreed to, such as making Huan Xi the prefect of Shu County, giving him the title of General Dingyuan, and granting him the right to open a mansion. .
Of course, Huan Wen's pressure on the court also had a negative impact, that is, the Jiankang court was on guard against the Western Fan.
Sima Yu, the king of Kuaiji, was famous for Yin Hao, the governor of Yangzhou, and regarded him as a confidant. He tried to use Yin Hao to counter Huan Wen.
Huan Wen didn't care about this. Yin Hao had been raised for ten years and he did have political talents, but his military ability was extremely limited. Huan Wen knew that Yin Hao would not succeed, so he did not take him seriously.
Xie Daoyun ignored the commotion in the court, but she has been in a gloomy mood recently.
The news of Huan Xi taking concubines in Shu has spread, especially the quarrel between father and son, which has been made a joke.
The more talented a woman is, the more proud she is. Xie Daoyun is not jealous, but her fiancé was jealous of her father for a woman before they got married, which still made her feel shameless.
Until Huan Xi sent a letter home from Chengdu, in which he explained the reason for the incident in detail and told Xie Daoyun how he couldn't help himself. It was his father who secretly told him not to force him to take concubines in order to keep his power.
And a poem at the end of the letter also made Xie Daoyun emotional.
Even though it is already the season of summer and autumn, it is no longer late spring in March.
Xie Daoyun believed Huan Xi's explanation.
As for the so-called jealousy between father and son, in her opinion, it was just a slanderous comment from the world.
A big tree attracts the wind. Xie Daoyun still remembers what Huan Xi said at the beginning, if he is not envied by others, he is a mediocre person. With the power of the Huan family and his son today, how can they not be envied by others.
She carefully put away Huan Xi's family letters and smiled at Xie Quan, Xie Xuan and others:
"It's better to plant a red bean tree in the garden."
At the same time, Huan Wen, who was deeply feared by the court, was explaining the rumors of father and son fighting for concubines to Sima Xingnan in a low voice.
Huan Wen kept complaining, claiming that Chang Xu had made the decision on his own, but he firmly refused.
Sima Xingnan was doubtful and she said:
"I feel disgusted when I look at Chang Xu. I cannot allow him to stay in the shogunate and send him to Jiankang to become an official."
As Huan Wen joined the army, Chang Xu naturally followed him and left Shuzhong.
Huan Wen hurriedly agreed. As long as he could get through this, he could say anything.
On the same day, Huan Wen summoned Chang Chu and proposed to the court to let him serve as an official.
When he was a minister of the Han Dynasty, Chang Quan had always wanted to go to the Jin Dynasty. Now that he knew that he could go to Jiankang, which he longed for, he was overjoyed. He agreed and sailed eastward the next day.
Seeing that Huan Wen had exiled Chang Xu, Sima Xingnan calmed down and remembered Huan Xi who was far away in Chengdu. He often criticized Huan Wen for this matter.
In the early autumn, good news came from Shu. Huan Xi put down the rebellion, and Yizhou was at peace. Huan Wen was overjoyed. When the princes of Jiankang heard the news, they felt as if they were mourning their heirs.
After the whole story of the conquest of Shu became known to the world, the name of Huanxi Chufeng became more and more famous.
Huan Wen has already caused headaches for the ministers, and Huan Xi is probably not as talented as his father. Who can laugh at the thought of being controlled by the Huan family and his son in the future.
As for the Xie family who was married to the Huan family, if Xie Shang, the governor of Yuzhou, had not been a friend of the king of Kuaiji and was a confidant of Sima Yu, the imperial court would have taken action to attack the Xie family of Chen County and divide their power.
But when Xie Shang dies in the future, there will still be a storm over who will succeed him.
Huan Xi turned a deaf ear to the disputes between Jing and Yang, and focused on governing Shu.
Before entering Shu, Yuan Qiao pointed out to Huan Wen that Yizhou was rich and Zhuge Wuhou could compete with Zhongxia with one state.
Huan Xi also suggested that Huan Wen take the wealth in Shu and use it for the Northern Expedition.
However, after years of hard work by Li Shou and Li Shi, the situation in Yizhou at this time was worse than that in the late Shu Han Dynasty.
At the end of the Shu Han Dynasty, Yizhou was exhausted. Without the ability to increase taxes, it had to continue to mint small coins. The face value remained unchanged, but the copper content dropped again and again.
The weight of the straight hundred and five baht cast by the former Lord Liu Bei when his treasury was empty increased from 8-9 grams at the beginning to 2-3 grams during Wuhou's Northern Expedition, and in the late Shu Han Dynasty, it was successively reduced to 1.4 grams and 1 gram. , 0.6 grams. Until the end of the country, a straight hundred and five baht was only 0.4 grams.
Of course, this is ultimately not as good as Sun Quan's 1,000, 2,000, or even 5,000 springs that knocked the people's bones and sucked their marrow.
The so-called Daquan Thousand, just one, has an virtual value of one thousand five-baht coins, but its actual value is only 3.2 five-baht coins.
After Li Shou took control of Yizhou, due to years of war with the Jin Dynasty and the extravagance of his people, the finances were unsustainable, so he could only imitate the old system and recast small coins.
This has also caused the current economic mess in Yizhou.
What is currently circulating in Yizhou is the Hanxing coin cast by Li Shou in the first year of Hanxing, which weighs only 1 gram.
Although the Han Dynasty coin pioneered the era name coin, with the fall of the Cheng Han Dynasty, this kind of coin will naturally disappear from the stage of history.
The currency system of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also in chaos. As early as the Western Jin Dynasty, the court used the old coins of Cao Wei and did not mint new coins.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was still no unified currency system, and private coinage was prevalent in various places. Among them, Shen Lang's coin cast by Shen Chong, who joined the army under Wang Dun, was the most famous.
However, local privately minted currency has different standards, and it is inevitable that substandard currency will be passed off as good.
Now that Huanxi is governing Shu, he naturally plans to mint new coins.
He summoned craftsmen to build a mint outside Chengdu and minted five baht coins.
On September 14th, the third year of Yonghe (AD 347), the first batch of new coins was released. Huan Xi and Dingxi shogunate chief Shi Xichao went to the mint to inspect.
The coin clerk presented Huan Xi with a thousand new coins. Although the weight had been weighed before, he was still worried.
Huan Xi had said before that every thousand pieces of paper should weigh four pounds and two ounces. If something went wrong, he would be punished.
"Master Fu, here are a thousand new coins that have just been minted. Please count them carefully."
Huan Xi nodded when he heard this, and immediately asked the clerk who came with him to come forward to take stock. Soon, the clerk reported back:
"Fu Jun, it's exactly a thousand pieces, no more, no less."
"Weigh yourself."
Huan Xi ordered.
The clerk agreed and immediately weighed the new money. Xi Chao stepped forward to inspect it, turned around and said with a smile:
"My lord, it is indeed four pounds and two ounces, exactly the same."
The coin clerk couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and Huan Xi praised:
"You have done a good job, and I will not begrudge you the reward."
The clerk was overjoyed and quickly thanked him.
Huan Xi took out one of the coins. The coin was engraved with the two characters Yonghe. Yonghe was not only the reign of the emperor today, but also the name of the new coin, which was Yonghe five baht.
Since Huan Xi's acceptance, the mint outside the city has been working day and night.
After the Yonghe Five Baht was mass-produced, Huanxi finally issued a decree to abolish the old Han Dynasty currency and Han Xingqian, and the Yonghe Five Baht was used exclusively in Shu.
At the same time, exchange offices were opened in various counties for people to exchange the actual value of the old currency for the new currency.
