Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 402 It's the husband's education, not the fool
In the New Tang Dynasty Palace, Prince Liu An is gathering with many friends.

Although he was with his friends, Liu An didn't seem so happy.

Not only Liu An was unhappy, but also his several clan brothers didn't look very happy either.

Xuan Ping couldn't help but asked, "His Royal Highness, why are you so depressed?"

Wang Hulong smiled disdainfully, pouted towards the figure not far away, and asked, "Isn't that obvious?"

The second generation of sages in Chang'an are not all the children of the sages of the generation, Xuan Ping is of course, Xuan Ping is the son of Xuan Moru and the grandson of Xuan Yi.And Wang Shulong is Wang Tianqi's grandson. These two were the most vicious people who arrested Qun Xian at the beginning, but their descendants gradually went astray.

Of course, there is no way to do this, not only Wang Tianqi's eldest grandson, but also Zhou Chang's second grandson Zhou Zuoche is also hanging out with Liu An and the others, which gives Zhou Chang a very headache, and Zhou Chang is reluctant to fight Grandson, he beat his son to vent his anger on the charge of not being strict with his son. Of course, Zhou Kaifang is very aggrieved. If I am wrong, then you are not strict with your son, aren't you?Where does this make sense?
Of course, when Zhou Kaifang was beaten, Zhou Zuoche laughed happily, until Zhou Kaifang decided to give him double the beaten he received from his father.

And what Wang Hulong meant at the moment was, of course, the Tang Wangsheren Feng Tang.

Feng Tang stood motionless not far away, with a serious expression, and went outside, there was Zhang Shizhi, and inside, there was Feng Tang.

This made Qunxian very distressed.

Liu An said with a sneer: "With this emperor, what he wants to do is impossible. I have to find a way to make the adults in the family no longer believe his words."

"Ah? What can you do?"

Liu Xiang asked curiously.

Liu An slowly looked at Liu Xiang with a calm expression.

"I'm sorry."

"Ah? What's wrong? Why?"

Before Liu Xiang's words were finished, Liu An swooped on him, suppressed his brother, and punched him. Of course, the fists landed on his back, Liu Xiang was furious, and then the two scuffled together. Everyone was stunned, and hurried forward to separate the two, Feng Tang couldn't sit still, and naturally came quickly to separate the two.

"It can't be like this!! How can you attack your brother?!"

Feng Tang angrily pulled the two away.

Liu An was still cursing: "Xiang! Just wait! I'm not strong! If I'm strong, things will change!!!"

"I'm afraid of you?! Come on!!"

The two were pulling in the crowd, roaring angrily, Feng Tang frowned, and said solemnly, "I will definitely inform Your Majesty about this!"

That afternoon, Liu An and Liu Xiang obediently appeared in front of Liu Chang.

Liu Chang flipped through the bamboo slips in his hand, not paying much attention to the two of them.

Isn't it just a fight, how normal is this, when I was young, who didn't I fight with?Among the brothers, who has not been beaten by himself?Even the fourth brother, he also suffered his own black fist, although he was beaten by his mother for three days and couldn't get out of bed. When he was angry, even the elder brother had to be beaten, and there were some conflicts between the children. , how normal, to forget tomorrow.

If it wasn't for Cao Shu and the others taking this matter very seriously, Liu Changcai would be too lazy to pay attention to these two stubbys.

Seeing that Liu Chang didn't care, Cao Shu pushed his arm.

Liu Chang looked up helplessly, "I'm busy with something important!"

Under Cao Shu's stern gaze, Liu Chang finally looked at them and asked unhappily, "Why fight?"

Liu An's eyes widened, "We didn't fight."

Liu Xiang also nodded his head and said, "I'm discussing things with An. Because of the intensity, my voice is louder."

"Then why did Feng Tang say you fought each other?"

Liu An let out a long sigh and said, "Oh, I never fought each other, but it's just that Duke Feng needs credit. My father asked him to look at me. I'm so well-behaved, and he has nothing to show in front of you. Therefore, always treat me harshly, I just debated a few words, and it turned into a fight with him"

The two people dressed as shuzi looked like dogs. Liu Changqiang held back the laughter in his heart. When he looked at the two shuzi in front of him, he was looking at monkeys.

That's it? ?
When you use this method to fool your family, you are not even an egg!

At this moment, Liu An and Liu Xiang's performance is so clumsy and ridiculous in Liu Chang's eyes, but in the attitude of an elder, he still can't laugh out loud. Holding back a smile, "Okay, I got it, you have to get along in harmony in the future, I'll tell you what to do with Feng Tang!"

The two were overjoyed and left in a hurry.

Liu Chang clearly jumped up happily after seeing them go out.

Of course Cao Shu saw it too, but just shook his head, "This Shuzi, in order to deal with Duke Tang, actually came up with such a method."

Liu Chang finally laughed, "Hahaha, I know I have to pretend I don't know, it's too difficult, when I saw him just now, I felt like I was watching a monkey"

As Liu Chang spoke, his expression froze again.

Didn't my grandparents see me that way back then? ?

No, certainly not!
When he was young, Liu Chang didn't like his drowsy grandfather very much. He always beat himself and always bullied himself. He didn't coax him to sleep like his grandmother did. He was always impatient when he saw him on weekdays. Chasing people out, eating, drinking and having fun all day, and hearing his angry roar from time to time, Chang Liu disliked him very, very much.

But after growing up, Liu Chang suddenly found out.

It's bad, I've become a father!

He suddenly began to understand the faint-hearted lord, who was always mad at these dicks, not because he didn't love them, but because he was afraid that they would go the wrong way, and he would stop them when they made small mistakes.

There is no way to coax them to sleep, and there is no way to accompany them all the time, because of the complexity of things, even if it is just to issue orders, it will take several hours to do these things well, thinking about the persuasion of the ministers, and thinking about the people from all over the world. As for things, Chang Liu just wanted to lie down, or invite everyone to drink for a while, and talk about the happy and casual days in the past.

Things in the country are always unsatisfactory, and a lot of irritating things will always happen.

Many times, I wanted to chat with Ann and them and ask them about their situation, but they sat down together, but couldn't say anything.

Arranging a stern lover who can contradict him is not just to torment his son, but because such a person is very reliable, just like Luan Bu.

Seeing his own shadow gradually appearing on his son, he always looked at him in a trance, and the image of the little meatball he had just born always appeared in his mind. After a little achievement, I can't find the edge happily, called my milk tiger.
Cao Shu looked at Liu Chang who suddenly fell silent, and asked in surprise, "Your Majesty? What's the matter?"

"Ah? It's okay, I'm okay!"

Liu Chang grinned stupidly.

He pointed to the memorial in front of him and complained, "It's not about dealing with the mess left by that drowsy lord!"

"Why can't this dizzy lord directly be in Qi country? Why don't you all be in Pei County?"

"There is not enough grain in this Guanzhong. Chang'an is the capital, and there are so many people, officials and soldiers. Every year, a large amount of grain needs to be transported from Kanto to Guanzhong. Look, this is the scale of my father's time. The annual grain transport is 40 shi .This is from my brother's time, 80 shi."

"This is today's 300 million stones."

Liu Chang pulled his hair, "There are 6 pawns in the water transport alone, which cost a lot of food. No, it is a huge 300 million grains that start from Kanto, and when they arrive in Chang'an, there are more than 40 left. How can this be done!! No matter how much food the big man has, he can't afford such a waste!!"

Cao Shu was stunned, "How much is the cost?"

"Yeah, if it wasn't for the teacher's serious calculations, I wouldn't even know it was such an exaggeration."

"I also recalculated it, and what the teacher said is a little conservative."

Liu Chang said: "I have also calculated that according to the current population growth trend, the population in this pass will exceed the sum of Qi and Liang within five years, and the food that will be consumed by then will be 600 million shi. For the 600 million shi of grain, the amount of grain to be transported throughout the Han Dynasty is an astronomical figure. By that time, one year’s water transportation will consume enough grain to feed the Northern Army for six years!!!”

Liu Chang explained seriously, Cao Shu nodded and asked seriously, "Then what is your majesty going to do?"

Liu Chang hesitated for a moment, "I haven't thought about it yet."

"I think I have either cooked my teacher, so that no one will find out about this problem in the future."

"Or, just cook Liu Jing and say that all the food consumed was embezzled by him!"

Cao Shu rolled her eyes at Liu Chang, and she also knew that Liu Chang was joking.

"Your Majesty, instead of thinking hard here, let's talk to the princes first."

"This has to wait for the court meeting tomorrow, forget it, don't wait, let's open it now!"

Cao Shu was stunned, "Your Majesty, but it's already there now."

"Waste another day, and hundreds of people's rations will be wasted in vain. What a pity, there are so many people who can't afford to eat, so open it now!"

"Lu Lu! You and Zhao Mei brought many officials to report to the ministers, saying that I am waiting for them in the Xuanshi Hall!"

"By the way, let Zhang Shizhi go and release Liu Jing and send him to Xuan Shi Hall!"

Liu Chang is an impatient person. He has to do what he says. He will never delay. Cao Shu didn't say much. He helped Liu Chang change his clothes and let him go.

The ministers were a little stunned. Some of them were at work, and some of them had just returned home when they suddenly heard that His Majesty had summoned the ministers. They did not dare to delay and set off in a hurry.

It's just, how could His Majesty summon the ministers at this time?What happened?
When the ministers gathered, His Majesty was talking and laughing to Zhang Budo.

It is a perfect match for a dim king to match a minister.

Zhang Budo was the first to come, and when he learned that he was here, Chang Liu asked him to come in ahead of time, and the two started chatting.

"Is it all arranged?"

"It's arranged, she's a very kind widow, and the county knows her name. She has no children of her own. She adopted four children and raised them. Those children treat them as if they were their own, they can't be excluded, they have to have the strength to do some light farm work, that's what she said."

"Hahaha, that's fine, Gonggong Zhao is a generous person, what's more, doesn't he grow melons in his own courtyard? It's definitely not acceptable for him to cultivate the land, but he's still very good at growing vegetables and so on. talented."

"She doesn't mind that."

Liu Chang pointed to his hair.

Zhang Budo shook his head and said with a smile, "Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about this at all. This widow's benefactor, I heard that he died on the sickbed after being tortured, so it's nothing to do with Duke Zhao."

"Good guy, execution?? What crime is this committed?"

Zhang Budo said softly: "In Tang country, there is no trace of torture on his body, but he can't fit in groups. When Zhaoping is in Tang country, he will be welcomed in line."

"Hahaha~~"

Liu Chang chuckled, "Anyway, it's good that someone can accompany him."

The two chatted for a long time, but when they raised their heads, they found that the ministers had already arrived, and they were all quietly watching the two monarchs and ministers chatting here as if there was no one else around.

Liu Chang hurriedly cleared his throat, and Zhang Budo returned to his position, no, he was standing directly in front of Zhou Chang and closest to Liu Chang.

Zhou Chang took a deep breath and blew his beard, but still managed to hold back the attack.

Liu Chang didn't talk nonsense, looked at Zhang Cang, and asked, "Can the ministers have a performance?"

Zhang Cang immediately understood that this was for him to talk about.

He got up and told his question about transporting grain by water. Unlike other ministers, Zhang Cang did not like to use allusions, although he also understood that when it came to national issues, he rarely talked about the words of the sages, nor did he say anything. What benevolence and morality.

The same food problem, if Zhou Chang and others were talking about it, it would definitely be "Yu Ji bows to the crops and has the world", or "governs the people and the sky, don't be stingy" and so on, and then talk about a lot of truth, and finally talk about food consumption Big and so on, but Zhang Cang is different.

This is a man of action in the Western Han Dynasty. He doesn’t have these things here. He simply took out a long list of figures. After calculating the results, Zhang Cang calculated the grain transported each year, the grain consumed, and the next trend. According to Zhang Cang's calculations, the probability of food shortages in the future and so on, after 37 years, Dahan will definitely have a very, very serious food problem, and this probability has reached more than 90.00%.

People use the first sage to speak, while Zhang Cang uses mathematics to speak.

As a mathematician who revised and supplemented nine chapters of arithmetic, Zhang Cang applied all his mathematical knowledge to the governance of the country. He tried to use mathematics to manage and manage many issues such as farmland, taxation, household registration, etc. , the "manuals" used by the Han officials to govern localities today are all works created by Liu Chang after being inspired by Zhang Cang's idea.

The above explains in detail how to calculate arable land, calculate grain production, calculate taxes and so on.

Zhang Cang is a big man, no, he may even be the father of applied mathematics in China.

The ministers listened carefully to Zhang Cang's explanation. In fact, mathematics has long been a compulsory course for all schools. Whether it is Huang Lao, Confucianism, or Legalism, they will not despise mathematics. Mathematics was long considered a noble in the pre-Qin period. The necessary cultivation, if you don't understand mathematics, then you are not worthy of being a noble.

When later generations unearthed the "Nine-Nine Multiplication Table" from the ruins of Qin, they were all stunned.

The development of mathematics in ancient times is not as bad as the inherent concept. There are many mathematicians in the Han Dynasty, from Zhang Cang in the early Han Dynasty to Liu Hong and Zhao Shuang in the late Han Dynasty. Among them, there are mathematicians with names and surnames recorded in historical books. Very, very many.Ancient China actually attached great importance to mathematics. Many people did not know that the imperial examinations in Tang Dynasty once included mathematics, and a special mathematics research institute was set up. These mathematicians were given official positions, and the status of mathematics gradually declined, probably from the Song Dynasty. started.

Liu Jing was standing among the ministers. He was a little suspicious at first. He didn't know how His Majesty suddenly brought him out of the prison. At this moment, he understood.

He is in charge of agriculture and water transportation.

If it wasn't for Zhang Cang's remarks, Liu Jing would really not have paid attention to this big problem.

After Zhang Cang finished speaking, Liu Chang looked at them.

"Aiqings, I gathered you today, in fact, for this matter, you must come up with a solution!"

"Especially you! Respect!"

"As the internal history of Zhisu, you didn't find this problem, what did your Taicang order do?!"

"Also, it is also your proposal to make the capital Chang'an!"

"Also, it is also your proposal to migrate a large number of people to Guanzhong!"

"All these faults are your own fault. If you don't come up with a solution today, I will cook you now!!!"

"Sima Xi, don't remember the last sentence!"

Liu Jing frowned, and the ministers were also discussing how to solve this matter.

Some people think that the number of Cao soldiers should be reduced, and some people think that the population of Guanzhong should be relocated to the outside of the city.

Liu Jing hesitated for a long time before he said, "Your Majesty, there is only one way now."

"You said."

"Opening the canal. Today's food goes from Weishui to Chang'an, which is a long way. You can dig a canal parallel to the Weihe River along the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. In this way, the distance from Tongguan to Chang'an can be shortened, and the transportation cost can be reduced. , and this canal can also irrigate the cultivated land along the road, and there are great benefits and crops."

"No!"

Zhou Chang got up, and without waiting for Liu Chang to speak, he said, "Nowadays, the roads are still being repaired, and there are a lot of corvés used every year. Now, the canal has to be built. Isn't it more expensive?"

Liu Jing said seriously: "This canal is not very long, and it does not require a lot of manpower. It will not cause years of corvée."

The group of ministers talked a lot, and Liu Chang pondered.

"What Liu Gong said also makes sense. The canal is indeed a good solution."

"I think I can do it."

Liu Chang's words made the opposition speechless, and could only acquiesce.

"It can't be just that."

Liu Chang said solemnly: "There are four issues involved, the first is the distance, it is possible to use the canal to shorten the distance, and the second is the ships, the current ships are running too slowly, if we can improve the ships and speed up the ships The speed of the food can also reduce the consumption. The third problem is this corruption. Caoyun has given many people a good excuse. When the food disappears, they say that they are wasted on the road. Anyway, no one can find out. It is necessary to clearly stipulate that the accurate consumption of grain should be counted, and the supervision and control of water transport officials should be strengthened!"

"The fourth problem is the issue of the land for receiving grain. Can it cost a lot to transport grain from Qi to Chang'an?"

"You can choose several grain-producing counties around Chang'an, and let them be responsible for the grain expenditure in Guan, and the canal will be carried out around them."

"What do you think?"

Liu Chang asked.

The ministers were already stunned at the moment.

(End of this chapter)