When Jian Yong and Severus were meeting, the Han Dynasty was also about to enter a new year. Compared with previous years, the biggest difference this year was that no large-scale wars had broken out.
In practical terms, the large-scale war on the Northern Frontier had already ended at the end of the year before last, which also matched Chen Xi's original plan—he simply hadn't given the Northern Huns a chance to fight into the new year.
Thus whether it was the Grand Assembly in Chang'an at the beginning of the year, or the mid-year loans, in reality all of it was about internal adjustment.
Liu Ye's violent forced-relocation style Village Merging was completed around June, barely managing to catch up with the Grain in Ear season. Of course, even if it hadn't, it wouldn't have mattered much; replanting a round was only natural. All in all, in terms of the overall situation, this year's work really had been completed somewhat beyond expectations.
