Dahan first prince

Chapter 85 Science...Science?
After thinking for a long time, Liu Ying finally laughed at herself, shook her head and sighed.

"Almost forgot."

"In this era, there is no such thing as a hot search..."

During today's court meeting, most of the things Liu Ying did and said were actually discussed in advance with his old mother Lu Zhi in the past few days.

Including after the start of the court meeting, first put on a posture of "I'm here to observe", and wait for Xiao He to arrange the mobilization of troops such as public security and palace ban in Chang'an area.

It also includes "begging" the courtier Gonghou to take out the slaves at home, and use "I remember you as a favor" as a bargaining chip in exchange for some free labor.

The fact that a hundred officials and meritorious princes will inevitably give out private slaves and refuse to pay them is certainly not beyond the expectations of Liu Ying, Lu Zhi's mother and son.

But the bad thing is: before the court meeting, Liu Ying's preparations were not done well.

One is that Liu Ying slightly overestimated the support that the aristocratic class can give to the renovation of the Zhengguo Canal this time.

Second, during the duet that day, Yang Chengyan, as a professional, did not correct Liu Ying's budget of '5 people, three months'.

This made all the plans of Lu Zhi, Liu Ying, mother and son in the past few days be carried out according to the default budget of '5 people, three months' and the labor gap of '1 people'.

As a result of today's court meeting, Yang Chengyan said a few words, and the labor budget exceeded 1 people, and the "noble class support" estimated in Liu Ying's plan was directly halved.

Under the ebb and flow, the shortfall in the labor force was almost twice the original budget in an instant.

In desperation, Liu Ying could only come up with a method that had been premeditated, but was not intended to be implemented in a hurry.

—Pave the canal with stone bricks!
In her previous life, Liu Ying, as the puppet emperor, had no chance to participate in the government affairs, but her mother Lu Zhi did not deprive her of the right to know about major events in the court.

In the previous life, the renovation and maintenance of the Zhengguo Canal was done after the death of his father Liu Bang, and when his mother Lv Zhi was in charge as the Queen Mother, the prime minister Xiao He was the head of the project, and it was built under the name of Hou Lu Shi, and it was built under the name of the Shaofu Yangcheng Yancheng. The main responsibility is to make the trip possible.

At that time, the maintenance of the Zhengguo Canal was exactly as Yang Chengyan said today, with [-] laborers, filling the upper reaches of the Zhengguo Canal, digging out the silt blocked downstream, and then simply compacting it.

As for the widening of the river, it was rejected by the Prime Minister's Office due to "insufficient budget" and shelved indefinitely.

Liu Ying vaguely remembers that in her previous life, when she was 22 years old, her body was empty due to alcoholism, and when she was about to die, Zheng Guoqu's work of reducing the width was still far away.

On the contrary, Chang'an City was completely completed a year before Liu Ying's death.

But compared with the previous life, the situation in this life is different.

In the previous life, Empress Dowager Lu Zhi ordered the renovation of the Zhengguo Canal purely out of practical considerations, without any other political intentions.

But this time, the emperor Liu Bang ordered Liu Ying to "supervise the country with the prince" and asked Liu Ying to renovate the Zhengguo Canal. The meaning of this incident is a little different.

To put it simply, in the previous life, Lu Zhi repaired the Zhengguo Canal, that is pure cultivation, if you can save it, you can save it, as long as it is almost usable.

But in this life, Liu Ying, as a prince, supervised the country and strongly advocated the renovation of the Zhengguo Canal, so she couldn't fool things around.

——A fool can see that Liu Bang threw a hot potato like "Zheng Guoqu" to Liu Ying just to make Liu Ying make mistakes, so he is a legitimate Yi Chu!

In the face of this opportunity and challenge, in order to keep her reserve position, to initially establish prestige in the court, and to gain the first popularity of the crown prince's career, Liu Ying must do her best to handle this matter beautifully. Done.

And Liu Ying's previous plan was basically copied from the plan of Xiao He, Lu Shizhi, and Yang Chengyan to renovate the Zhengguo Canal in the previous life.

——The [-] official slaves of the Shaofu were in the previous life. Lu Zhi asked Lu Shizhi to go to the court, and through this, he was able to name the renovation of the Zhengguo Canal, so as to gain political qualifications.

But in this life, in order to collect more labor and make Zheng Guoqu repair better, the old lady Lu Zhi came up with an extra method: pay money and hire private slaves from the family of Gonghou's courtiers to serve as labor.

But even so, the "widening of the Zhengguo Canal" that was advanced because Prince Liu Ying supervised the country strongly advocated the renovation of the Zhengguo Canal, which seriously exceeded the budget.

In desperation, Liu Ying could only reluctantly take out the hole card of 'Paving the canal with stone bricks'.

In fact, the idea of ​​"paving the canal with stone bricks" was originally Liu Ying's plan to spend five to ten years completely renovating the Zhengguo Canal after she ascended the throne, so as to get it done once and for all.

If it wasn't for the lack of manpower and the lack of money for the renovation of the Zhengguo Canal this time, Liu Ying would have never thought of laying the bottom of the Zhengguo Canal with stone bricks so early.

But there was no way. With a flick of a pen, his father Liu Bang asked Liu Ying to build the canal; in the end, money, food, and labor were all he wanted.

Considering that Liu Ying is less than 14 years old now, and her father Liu Bang only has more than one year of life left, Liu Ying must try her best to be perfect when repairing the canal.

In desperation, Liu Ying could only come up with "laying the Zhengguo Canal with the stone bricks used to build Chang'an City, to try to influence the people to help spontaneously", such a method is not a solution.

But the key to whether this method will work is that the matter of "the crown prince used all the stone bricks to build Chang'an to repair the Zhengguo Canal" must be known by as many people as possible!

It would be best if what Liu Ying said just now at the stone cutting field in the western suburbs spread throughout Guanzhong!
Thinking of this, Liu Ying couldn't help thinking for a while, and with a flattering smile, she stepped forward and knelt down in front of her old lady Lu Zhi.

"Mother~"

"This matter seems to be a little bit wrong..."

Seeing Liu Ying's playful and coquettish appearance, Lu Zhi smiled helplessly, gently lifted Liu Ying up, and made him sit back beside him.

"It's okay~"

"On Lubu, although you can't write 'the prince will build the canals with stone bricks in Chang'an', you can also make indirect remarks and mention this."

"As well as the transportation of stone bricks, send more kind-hearted officials, that's all."

Wen Yan comforted him, Lu Zhi couldn't help but pondered for a while, and then seemed to say to himself: "If there are some troubles again, to gather people in Beique..."

When he was able to speak well, he approached the gate of the palace, and a warrior dressed as an imperial army trotted over. He cupped his hands and ran into the palace.

"Report to the queen, at home."

After bowing his hands and bowing, the soldier spoke a little bit before raising his head with a troubled face.

"Chang'an Gonghou Guixun and the courtier Gonghou said that they were following the orders of their families. At this moment, each of them brought their private slaves to stay outside Weiyang Palace!"

"There are also tens of thousands of people, who seem to mistakenly think that the princes of meritorious officials gather family members and private slaves want to attack Weiyang Palace, and they are making noise outside the palace..."

Hearing the report from the soldiers of the Imperial Army, Lu Zhi, Liu Ying, mother and son couldn't help but tense their expressions.

A moment later, when Liu Ying turned her head suspiciously, she saw a sincere joy on Lu Zhi's face.

"This is God's will, and you want to help my son?"

Seeing the teasing at the corner of the old lady's mouth, Liu Ying felt a string called 'Believe in Science' in her mind trembling violently, and there was a slight tendency to break...
(End of this chapter)